More Time Pieces for Viola Book 1

From the Publisher

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.

Contents

1. Gabriel's Message [Trad.]
2. La Volta from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book [William Byrd]
3. Presto from Battalia, C. 61 [Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber]
4. Come, ye sons of art away, Z. 323 [Henry Purcell]
5. Rondeau from Orchestral Suite in B minor, BWV 1067 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
6. Figaro's aria (Non pìu andrai) from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
7. To Music, D.547 [Franz Schubert]
8. On Wings of Song, No. 2 from Six Songs, Op. 34 [Felix Mendelssohn]
9. Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 [Johann Strauss II]
10. Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 [Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky]
11. Linden Lea [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
12. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 [Edward Elgar]
13. Shrove-Tide Fair Themes: from Petrushka [Igor Stravinsky]
14. Cake-Walk from Easy Dances II [Mátyás Seiber]
15. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, from Porgy and Bess [Ira Gershwin / Dorothy Heyward / Dubose Heyward / George Gershwin]
16. Hopscotch: No. 6 from Duets for Children [William Walton]
17. Under the Sea: from The Little Mermaid [Alan Irwin Menken]
18. Hen-Coop Rag [Edward Huws Jones]

Item Details

Instrumentation

• Part 1: Viola Viola
• Part 2: Piano Piano