Major | D♭, E♭, F, G | Three Octaves |
Harmonic Minor | D♭, E♭, F, G | Three Octaves |
Melodic Minor | D♭, E♭, F, G | Three Octaves |
Bowing Patterns: | Détaché Legato Spiccato | |
Chromatic | D♭, F | Two Octaves |
Bowing Patterns: | Legato | |
Major Arpeggios | D♭, E♭, F, G | Three Octaves |
Minor Arpeggios | D♭, E♭, F, G | Three Octaves |
Bowing Patterns: | Détaché Legato | |
Dominant Seventh | G♭, C | Two Octaves, resolving on the tonic |
Diminished Seventh | D♭, F | Two Octaves |
Bowing Patterns: | Legato | |
Double Stops | F, E♭ Major in 3rds | One Octave |
A♭ Major in 6ths | One Octave | |
D Major in 8ves | Two Octaves | |
C Harmonic Minor in 6ths | One Octave | |
Bowing in slurred broken step, then together as in the following example: |
List A | ||
Bach | Courante, Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV 1007 3rd mvt | Bach Six Cello Suites Peters EP7489/ Chester CHO1401 |
Bach | Viola da Gamba Sonata No 2 in D 1st & 2nd mvt Adagio & Allegro BWV 1028 | Three Sonatas BWV 1027 - 1029 |
Bonporti | Invention Op 10 No 3, 4th mvt, Bizarria | Two Inventions Kunzelmann/MDS |
Bärenreiter | Faber | |
Caix d'Hervelois | La Marche du Czar | L'alto Classique Vol C, UMP |
Caix d'Hervelois | Tambourin | Solos for the Viola Player Schirmer/Music Sales |
Cohen | No 4 Swirling Arabesques or No 9 The Bee's Knees | Technique takes off! Faber |
Corelli | Sonata in D min Op 5 No 8 | IMC |
Eccles | Sonata in G min 1st mvt & either 2nd or 4th mvt | Faber/Peters |
Fiocco | Allegro | Viola World |
Handel | Sonata in G min Op 1 No 6 1st & 2nd mvts | Stainer & Bell H244 |
Kreutz | Study No 4 or No 5 | Select Studies Bk 3, Stainer & Bell |
Mazas | Study No 5 or No 7 | Special Studies for Viola Op 36, Bk I, Schirmer |
Senaillé | Sonata in G min Op 5 No 9 1st & 2nd mvts, Largo & Allegro | Stainer & Bell |
Telemann | Concerto in G maj, 1st & 2nd mvts or 3rd & 4th mvts | Bärenreiter/Faber |
Telemann | Sonata in A min, 2nd mvt Allegro | Schott ED10357 |
Telemann | Sonata in E min for Viola da Gamba TWV 41..e5 1st & 2nd mvts Cantabile & Allegro | Music for Viola 1, Editio Musica Budapest Z.12846 |
Vivaldi | Siciliano from 'Gloria' RV 589 | Baroque Pieces for Viola arr Forbes, OUP |
Vivaldi | Sonata in C Aria & Allegro or Aria & Giga | Schott Viola Repertory Schott |
List B | ||
Bach, J.C. | Viola Concerto 2nd mvt | Salabert/ UMP |
Beethoven | Rondo for Viola & Piano | Schott/MDS |
Flackton | Sonata in C min, 1st & 2nd mvts | Schott |
Flackton | Sonata in G, 1st mvt | Schott |
Grazioli | Sonata in F 1st mvt | Stainer & Bell |
Haydn | Diverimento in D, Allegro di Molto | Elkan-Vogel/UMP |
Mozart | Menuetto Divertimento K334 | Viola World/Bosworth |
Schubert | Sonatina No 1 in D, D384 3rd mvt | Belwin/IMC |
Stamitz | Viola Concerto No 3 in G 2nd mvt Adagio | Breitkopf & Härtel EB6654 |
List C | ||
Albeniz | Tango | L'Alto classique Vol C, UMP |
Bridge | Serenade | Bridge Four Pieces for Viola & Piano Faber |
Bridge | Spring Song | Ten Pieces for Viola & Piano Vol 2 Thames/Music Sales |
Dancla | Fantasia - La Cenerentola Op 86 No 7 | Solos for Young Violists Vol 2 Alfred |
Fauré | Berceuse Op 16 | Hamelle/UMP |
Fauré | Sicilienne Op 78 | Peters/Faber |
Fibich | Poéme Op 39 | Idyll at Twilight Schott/MDS |
Glazunov | Serenade Espagnole Op 20 arr Ginot | Jobert/UMP |
Granados | Danza Espanola No 2 Oriental | UME |
Grieg | Two Elegaic Melodies No 2, Last Spring | Classical and Romantic Pieces for Viola & Piano OUP |
Joachim | Hebrew melodies for Viola Op 9, No 1 | IMC 3272/MDS |
Mendelssohn | Song Without Words Op 19 No 1 | Chester Music for Viola, Chester |
Schumann | Fairytales Op 113 No 1 or No 4 | Breitkopf |
Schumann | Op 113 No 4 from Märchenbilder | Peters P-2372 |
Schumann | Romance No 1 Op 94 | Stainer & Bell |
Sitt | Album Leaves Op 39 No 6 Allegro, Molto vivace | Solos for Young Violists Vol 4 Alfred/Faber |
Tchaikovsky | Barcarolle | Chester Music for Viola, Chester |
Wolf | Verborgeheit No 12 | Solos for the Viola Player arr Doktor, Schirmer |
List D | ||
B. Hummel | Little Suite Op 19c, 2nd mvt: Andante sostenuto | Simrock/MDS |
B.Hummel | Sonatina for Viola No 1 Op 35b, 3rd mvt Vivace | Simrock EE2948/MDS |
Bartók | Evening in the Village | Editio Musica/Boosey |
Bennett | The Czar of Muscovy No 6 from Six Country Dances | Novello NOVO90750/Music Sales |
Berkeley | Sonata in D min, 1st & 2nd or 2nd & 3rd mvts | Chester |
Ferguson | Burlesque | Four Short Pieces, Boosey |
Herschel Hill | Novelette | Two Pieces for Viola & Piano Stainer & Bell |
Hovhannes | Chahagir for Solo Viola | Rongwen |
Joplin | Solace | Viola World/Bosworth |
Milhaud | Sonata No 1 any one mvt | Heugel |
R. Clarke | Lullaby No 1 | Clarke Shorter Pieces for Viola & Piano OUP |
Richardson | Sussex Lullaby | Comus |
Vaughan Williams | Carol No 2 Suite for Viola Group 1 | OUP |