Showing posts with label viola music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label viola music. Show all posts
Tchaikovsky Seasons Transcribed for Viola and Piano
Mi Y'malel (Who Can Retell) for Piano Trio and for String Quartet
You can listen to the version for violin, viola, and piano here, and the version for violin, cello, and piano here.
You can also find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
You can find the above arrangement for string quartet there, and you can also find a PDF here.
And you can listen to the string quartet arrangement here.
Harris Walz II "Conventional"
UPDATE: Now for Trumpet and Piano or for Violin or Viola and Piano (the piano part remains unchanged in both transcriptions). A PDF for both can be found through the above IMSLP link.
Eleven Miniature Studies for Viola Solo
This is a viola adaptation of Eleven Miniature Studies for Violin Solo. You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
Salomé's Dance for Violin, Viola, and Cello
You can hear this music accompanying some of the final scenes of the 1922/23 silent film (one hundred years ago!) of Salomé that was produced, directed, choreographed, acted, and danced by Alla Nazimova through this link. The score and parts on this page of the IMSLP.
The piece, which is ten minutes long, can be played with or without the film.
Advanced Viola Scale Studies
Nathan Groot is in the process of recording them all. You can watch and listen here.
Transcription: Lili Boulanger Nocturne and Cortege for Viola and Piano
Transcription: Massenet's Méditation from Thaïs for viola and piano
The Méditation is set for solo violin, two harps, winds, and a chorus of closed-mouth singers. For my transcription for viola and piano I transposed the piece into G major (a fifth lower), and rewrote the piano part to better reflect the colors, pitches, and motion of the original score.
Martin Pierre Marsik's piano reduction of the Méditation was published by Heugel in 1894, and I imagine it was approved by Massenet. But Marsik's piano reduction doesn't sound very good transposed a fifth lower, and a need for a setting of the piece for viola and piano wasn't on anybody's radar during Massenet's lifetime.
Just for a lark, after making my viola and piano edition, I made a personal copy transposed back into the original key, and when I played it on the violin with a pianist friend, it felt better to play with than the Marsik piano reduction. But I guess I am a bit biased.
My edition is now available from the International Music Company (and will be among the new issues on this page soon), and I am very grateful that they respected my choice to rewrite the piano part.
Made in Hungary
Marjorie Hanft and I collaborated on this poetry-with-interludes project in 1996. I recently found the music, and made an updated and revised score.
I wrote this as a set of interludes to be played between poems, but was pleased to find that it also works quite well to read the poetry yourself while listening to the music.
Violin Scale Tales
From the Mel Bay Website:
The etudes in this book offer students a musically and intellectually satisfying means of practicing scales in all major and minor keys, even while remaining in first position. Although presented in the traditional order of the circle of fifths, this is where similarities to other violin scale-oriented books end. Of course, the etudes can be played using a mixture of positions by more advanced students. The studies also resonate very well on the viola if played at pitch. These are instructive etudes and can be played as appealing solo pieces. The stepwise motion in the etudes makes intervals between pitches easy to hear, even in keys with many flats or sharps. Both the book and etude titles refer to names of animals that have scales, so you will see natural and harmonic minor scales named after various moths, and major scales named for unusual reptiles, birds, and mammals throughout. The author hopes that in addition to experiencing more enjoyable scale practice, students will be inspired to learn more about these amazing animals or even write scale studies of their own.
It is available as an e-book as well as a print book.
You can find both on this page of the Mel Bay website.
Here's a link to a YouTube playlist that has the first ten pieces.
Rock Crystal for Solo Viola
The music is available on this page of the IMSLP, and you can listen to Paul Cortese's excellent recording here.
You can read a little "backstory" about this piece here.
I am also fond of lonely islands for solo viola
You can listen to Paul Cortese play this piece here (on YouTube). And you can find the music on this page of the IMSLP, and it is streaminig on various formats:
Three Short Pieces for Trumpet and Piano
These are intended as teaching pieces for "entry level" trumpet players, but they can be played by advanced players too.
I also made a transposed version that can be played by "entry level" violinists and violists. You can find the music for both the original and the transcriptions on this page of the IMSLP.
New Year's Greeting for 2022
I like to make these New Year's Greetings modular, so this one has versions for clarinet and viola, two violas, and two violins. I also made an arrangement of it for harpsichord or piano solo (you can see the music below)
You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP. I also made a transcription for harpsichord or piano.
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