Viola - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7032 In forme of studies, in all 24 keys. Composed by Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode. This edition: Sheet music. Essential Exercises. Downloadable. Schott Music - Digital #Q7032. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7032). Caprices for solo violin have a long tradition; the list of collections in which virtuoso violinist-composers archived testimonies of their virtuoso violin art ranges from Locatelli to Paganini, from Gaviniès to Dont. Among them is the French violinist Pierre Rode (1774-1839) who added his 24 Capricen in Form einer Etüde für Violine allein to this genre. Even today, they still form part of the indispensable repertoire of violin students, particularly since, notwithstanding the purely technical side, they are also attractive pieces of music. As a teacher at the famous Paris Conservatoire, Rode, together with Pierre Baillot and Rodolphe Kreutzer, laid the foundations for comprehensive violin didactics and methodology: the 24 Caprices are important contributions to this music-educational work. The present new edition is based on the first edition of Paris of 1820, providing the original score, especially two variants of fingering, a 'normal version', and a version specifically designed for small hands. Technical as well as musical challenges make Rode's Caprices a fascinating study and performance object.

Viola Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1156530 Composed by Scott Slapin. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Opera. Individual part. 55 pages. Violacentric Publications #756854. Published by Violacentric Publications (A0.1156530). This book combines 13 pieces Scott Slapin wrote for solo viola. Intermediate to advanced level. Includes notes about each piece. Pieces included: The Ill-Tempered Violist, The Voice of Your Mother, Fantasia in c minor, Soliloquy, The Jersey Devil, The Raging Waves of Babylon (from 'Violacentrism'), Fantasy On Themes From 'Violacentrism, the Opera', Soviets in the Piazza, The Hassid and the Hayseed, Elegy-Caprice, Trauermusik, Partita Piccola, and Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola (3 mvts). Videos: Main video: https://youtu.be/CLufrosRfVc Trauermusik: https://youtu.be/s3zrH4xZjvE.

Viola Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.912917 Composed by Brandon Nelson. Concert,Contemporary. Individual part. 7 pages. Brandon Nelson #1998627. Published by Brandon Nelson (A0.912917). A set of intriguing, contrasting miniatures for unaccompanied viola. Aimed at higher level players, this piece is ideal for any concert or recital setting. The first in this set, from darkness, rising, is a lyric caprice which gradually moves from darker modes to brighter modes (locrian to lydian). The next selection, Eidólons, has a veiled, mysterious quality. In this piece, I explore variations based on rhythmic alteration. An eidólon is a spirit or phantasm; the term was a favorite of American poet Walt Whitman. The third entry, Homeostatic, is built upon a concept I refer to as biofeedback music. In this case, I took regularly-spaced readings of my pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation percentage and performed basic arithmetic operations on these figures, the results of which I used to determine a number of musical facets (most notably the essential constituents of the rhythmic gestures). The final piece, Sapta Bodhyanga, I built on a wedge concept (in this case, seven intervals, each becoming larger, ending with the octave). The number seven also features prominently in the design of the rhythmic motives (with chance procedures used in the deployment of these figures). Given the concentration on this number and the use of aleatoric methods, I titled this piece after the Zen Buddhist concept sapta-bodhyang, or seven degrees of enlightenment.