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The purpose of this treatise is to assemble a performer's guide to the subject of baroque ornamentation and free improvisation, the cadenza in the classical concerto, and the aleatoric, indeterminate and improvisatory music of the late...
This treatise presents selected viola works by Alfred Uhl (1909-1992). Three chamber works that feature the viola are discussed. Trio für Violine, Viola, and Gitarre, Kleine Konzert für Viola, Klarinette & Klavier, Vier Lieder aus der...
This treatise is about the Filipino composer Col. Antonino Buenaventura and his 1969 Viola Sonata. It discusses the Sonata’s importance in the Philippines’ search for a distinctive national identity. It also offers information on how to...
A music student at the collegiate level should be fairly proficient on his or her instrument, hence the student's acceptance into the music program. Although many string students have the experience of performing on his or her instrument...
Shostakovich wrote his String Quartet No.3 in F Major, Op.73 in 1946 at the age of forty, right after the Second World War and not long after the completion of his Ninth Symphony. The Third Quartet is a large, symphonic work and is known...
The period in English musical history referred to as the English Musical Renaissance, stretching roughly from 1860-1940, is generally acknowledged as an era marked by a large resurgence of both musical and cultural activity. During this...
The idea of “musical consciousness” centers around the cultural awakening, acknowledgement, preservation and expression of the elements that epitomize the African-American culture and the African-American sound. The chosen vehicle to...
ABSTRACTPerforming Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra poses myriad technical hurdles. The initial approach to studying this work must include practice strategies that isolate its numerous technical challenges and work through...
Since its inception in 1917, first as a Traveling Scholarship, then as the Pulitzer Prize in Music since 1943, the Pulitzer awards in music have been representative of America's best composers. Of the fifty two Pulitzer Prizewinning...
The music of the Turtle Island Quartet became of interest to the author in the 2000-2001 academic year while studying a piece for string quartet called Steel City Strut by Danny Seidenberg. This experience led to the research and quest...
Benjamin Britten wrote five pieces for the viola, the most well-known being the Lachrymae, Op. 48: Reflections on a song of Dowland written in 1950 for the Scottish violist William Primrose. Britten's other viola works were composed in...
The twentieth century in Western European music was a time of experimentation and the role of the viola changed greatly as many new pieces for solo viola were written. Musical trends such as Nationalism, Modernism, Neoclassicism, ...
The purpose of this treatise is to introduce string players to a wide array of sources that can be helpful in developing healthy playing habits and preventing injury. More and more musicians are discovering that playing their instruments...
As a Bolivian artist, the author has always supported the idea of bringing Bolivian music to the world. The writer's contribution over the years has been to collaborate with composers from Bolivia who have written for the viola. Some of...
The viola duo repertoire (for two violas alone) from the second half of the eighteenth century includes over one hundred and ten compositions written by approximately ten composers. Today, the most known and performed viola duos of that...
Over the last century, composers in the Western art music tradition have greatly expanded the variety and number of works available to string players. The viola repertoire in particular has benefited from increased interest in the...
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