Time Pieces for Viola, Volume 1

Description

Time Pieces for Viola, Volume 1, arranged by Philip Bass and Paul Harris feature pieces that are on the grade 2 and grade 3 ABRSM viola examination. Pieces are Grades 1-3 standard. For higher grades please see volume 2

Time Pieces for Viola, Volume 1 features:

• Well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the thirteenth century to the present day
• Presented in chronological order and showing the year in which they were written
• Carefully arranged by Philip Bass and Paul Harris to practise the note ranges and keys of the early grades
• Straightforward piano accompaniments
• Allows you to get a real feel for the different styles of music through time
• Invaluable source of further study and recital repertoire

Time Pieces for Viola, Volume 1 contents:

• 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]