Time Pieces for Viola - Vol.1

Description

Take a journey through time with More Time Pieces For Viola. These two volumes contain well-crafted arrangements, presented in chronological order, to take you from the seventeenth century right up to the present day.

• Pieces that regularly feature on the ABRSM Viola syllabus.
• Invaluable source of recital repertoire.
• Contrasting styles, from Schubert to Stravinsky and from Wagner to Weill.
• Arrangements that practise the note ranges and keys of the grades.

Maggy Lamb played the Viola with English National Opera and the Philharmonia Orchestra before taking up the post of Head of Strings at St Peter's School in York. She now divides her time between teaching, performing and examining. Rachel Meredith is a Bristol University graduate. After a period performing both in the UK and abroad, she now teaches upper strings in York. Rachel is also a syllabus selector and examiner for ABRSM.

Content:

• Personent hodie [Anon.]
• Basse danse bergeret from Musyck Boexken [Tylman Susato]
• Divinum mysterium from Piae cantiones [Anon.]
• The Earl of Salisbury's Pavan [William Byrd]
• Siciliana from Sonata No. 6 in A minor [Finger]
• Riggadoon from The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid [H. Purcell]
• Noël nouvelet [Trad.]
• Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 262 [J. S. Bach]
• If the heart of a man is depressed with cares from The Beggar's Opera [Gay]
• Under the Greenwood Tree from As You Like It [Thomas Arne]
• Theme from Andante grazioso from Piano Sonata in A, K. 331 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Ecossaise, WoO 23 [Beethoven]
• Entracte from Rosamunde, Fürtstin von Zypern [Franz Schubert]
• Arietta from Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 [Grieg]
• Mélodie antique française from Album pour enfants, Op. 39 [Tchaikovsky]
• Larghetto from Sonatina in G, Op. 100 [Dvorák]
• Jeering Song from For Children, Vol. 1 [Bela Bartók]
• Theme from ‘Jupiter' from The Planets [Holst]
• Menuet from Le tombeau de Couperin [Ravel]
• Charade [Mancini]
• Viola Joke! [Paul Harris]
• The Twenty-Ninth of May from The Dancing Master [Playford]