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	Sheet Music Plus - Viola Concerto in B Minor - by George Frideric Handel
		Viola Concerto In C Minor - Viola/Piano By Johann Christian Bach...
		Viola Concerto In G - Viola/Piano By Georg Philipp Telemann...
		Concerto in B Minor By George Frideric Handel...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /store/smp_detail.html?cart=82403521866&type=rec&item=4010359 (147 words)

	Nigel Keay - Viola Concerto (Concerto pour alto)
		The first performance of Nigel Keay's Viola Concerto was given by the Chamber Orchestra of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with Franck Chevalier as soloist, conducted by Marc Taddei at the 29th International Viola Congress in Wellington in 2001.
		Thus, the conception of the Viola Concerto had been somewhat « classical » with an extended lower register in the orchestra (instruments such as the contrabassoon, and bass-clarinet are employed).
		The Viola Concerto follows the idea of presenting the soloist as master-musician/animator of, and in dialogue with their ensemble as opposed to having the soloist present a catalogue of technical possibilities on the instrument.
	perso.orange.fr /nigel.keay/violaconcerto.html (729 words)

	Gspan Viola Concerto
		This concerto, in three movements, is a charming Classical-period work of moderate difficulty that will satisfy the need for a refreshing solo piece for the performer and a valuable concerto to study and learn for viola students.
		The concerto was discovered by Myron Rosenblum several years ago during a research grant at the monastery in Seitenstetten, Austria.
		The Gspan Concerto received its first American performance at a NYVS concert at The Barge in Brooklyn on May 13th.
	www.nyvs.org /organization/gspan.html (161 words)

	Viola Concerto - Thea Musgrave, composer
		In one engaging episode the 9 orchestral violas stand up, to be led by the soloist as if in a kind of master class...the salient characteristics of the concerto are lyricism and wit.
		The Viola Concerto explores the dramatic interplay of the solo viola with different small orchestral groups, and, equally important, the relationship of the soloist with his colleagues in the viola section.
		There are two central episodes where the soloist is heard in combination with two small orchestral groups; an unconducted soft lyrical section when the viola solo is accompanied by the flute, bass clarinet and harp, and later a grotesque scherzo with the bassoon, lst cello and lst double bass.
	www.theamusgrave.com /html/viola_concerto.html (463 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		Arnold Bax wrote a Viola Concerto, the Sonata for Viola and Piano, Legend for viola and piano, the Fantasy-Sonata for harp and viola and the Elegy for flute, viola and harp.
		Viola bowing technique is different from that of the violin as the bow is used in the viola to emphasize its darker range of musical color.
		A relative of the viola is the older viola d’amore with seven gut strings stopped on a fingerboard and seven wire strings free to vibrate underneath.
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/edito.php?ID_edito=69 (2771 words)

	About the Viola d'amore Viola d'amore Society of America
		The viola d'amore has the body shape of a viol, that is, sloping shoulders, flat back, high ribs and a rosette but is played like a violin or viola held under the chin.
		The bulk of viola d'amore music during the 18th century was written in scordatura notation, a system by which a violinist could more easily play on a viola d'amore with different tunings other than the standard tuning of a stringed instrument tuned in fifths.
		Interest in the viola d'amore waned during the 19th century, likely having to do with the growth of the orchestra, the dominance of the violin as a solo instrument and the inability of the viola d'amore to compete with the larger sounds concepts of the day.
	www.violadamoresocietyofamerica.org /Page.html (1068 words)

	Instrumentally Speaking ... The Viola ... Vienna Online Ezine
		Most violas are resonant and mellow in the lower range and have rich, full sounds in the middle and upper ranges.
		The viola has always been called a "big violin," but the word "violin" actually means "little viola." Both instruments have four strings tuned a fifth apart and both are made in the same way.
		The viola tends to be dismissed as a mutant violin, despite the fact that it has been around in its present form for about 300 years.
	www.geocities.com /viennaonline/inst/is1200.html (673 words)

	Sebastian Huydts - Viola Concerto
		This edition of the concerto features the chamber version in which the viola is accompanied by a mixed ensemble of 7 instrumentalists including percussion.
		The viola then quickly leads into the second, arioso, part of the movement in which momentarily the roles are reversed.
		The viola accompanies a melody in the flute.
	www.huydts.com /11.html (512 words)

	Walton: Craggs Catalogue Numbers
		C22 - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1929, rev. 1961)
		C22a - Viola Concerto, arranged for viola and piano (arranger unknown, 1930)
		C37 - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1939, rev. 1943)
	www.williamwalton.net /works/works_craggs.html (2338 words)

	Classical Net Review - Kancheli/Gubaidulina - Styx/Viola Concerto
		The concerto's opening, with the soloist's insistence on the notes D and Es (E Flat Major), almost literally invokes the name of Dmitri (e)Shostakovich, a formative influence on the younger composer.
		The violist and the orchestra share the concerto's sound-world with a string quartet, tuned a quarter-tone lower – a darker "second dimension," in the words of the composer.
		The concerto's tone is dark and oppressive, but Gubaidulina's need to communicate with her listeners is unmistakable.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/d/dgg71494a.html (440 words)

	Concordance: Bartok viola concerto in the csaba erdelyi restoration and orchestration
		Concordance: Bartok viola concerto in the csaba erdelyi restoration and orchestration
		Concordance is proud to have released the world premiere recording of Csaba Erdelyi's Restoration and Orchestration of the Bartok Viola Concerto.
		The Work was left in an uncompleted form when the composer died in 1945, and for many years the only way in which the work could be heard was in the completion by Hungarian Tibor Serly.
	concordance.co.nz (187 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concerto In G - Viola/Piano
		Rodolphe Kreutzer: 42 Studies - Viola For viola...
		Viola Concerto In C Minor - Viola/Piano By Johann Christian Bach...
		Franz Schubert: Sonata per Arpeggione (Viola/Piano) For viola solo, piano accompaniment...
	wwws.sheetmusicplus.com /sheetmusic/detail/HL.50481381.html (245 words)

	All Things Strings: Bartók's Unfinished Viola Concerto
		In January 1945, William Primrose commissioned a viola concerto from Béla Bartók—a simple act that set in motion one of the great musical mysteries of the 20th century and has resulted in a legal tangle that persists to this day.
		The viola part was challenging enough, but interpreting the composer’s complex and at times puzzling notes on the orchestration, though perhaps a "purely mechanical work" for Bartók himself, would prove a daunting task for his followers.
		He is currently professor of viola at Butler University in Indianapolis, where he established a new course: The History of Viola and Viola Players, a two-semester class for private players, gamba and viola makers, viola students, and others.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/strings102/bartok.html (1700 words)

	Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The main tonal centres of the piece are C and G, which allows one to exploit the most resonant areas of the viola.
		Generally, the viola is featured against lightly scored woodwind groupings, and the movement is articulated by choral-like passages for brass and strings.
		Eventually, hammered viola semiquavers bring the music back to the fast material from the first movement, reaffirming C as the tonal centre.
	www.users.bigpond.com /gkerry/viola_concerto.htm (460 words)

	Viola Concerto, Thea Musgrave
		The Viola Concerto explores the dramatic interplay of the solo viola with different small orchestral groups, and, equally important, the relationship of the soloist with his colleagues in the viola section.
		To this end, the viola section is seated where the lst violins normally sit, thus focussing attention on them right from the start.
		There are two central episodes where the soloist is heard in combination with two small orchestral groups; an unconducted soft lyrical section when the viola solo is accompanied by the flute, bass clarinet and harp, and later a grotesque scherzo with the bassoon, lst cello and lst double bass.
	www.chesternovello.com /default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&WorkId_3041=8435 (393 words)

	Alfred Schnittke's Viola Concerto
		His numerous concertos, in particular, are a panoramic record of a lifetime of such musical friendships and working relationships.
		One of the grandest and finest of these is his Viola Concerto, composed in the summer of 1985 for Yuri Bashmet.
		Shortly after he finished this concerto, Schnittke was staying in the Black Sea resort of Pitsunda when, on the July 21, 1985, he had a severe stroke.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/2002_03season/2003_3_14/schnittke.cfm (735 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		Brett Dean's Viola Concerto was jointly commissioned by the BBC Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Symphony Australia, and the Sydney Symphony.
		Largely deprived of such masterworks of the classical and romantic periods, viola players generally tend to embrace the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with greater passion than our violin- and cello-playing colleagues.
		As its name implies, this is a restless ride for all concerned, presenting the solo viola as a harried, lonely figure fighting against the latent threat of the orchestra, which seems only too keen to burst in and have its say whenever it gets the opportunity.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=2148&back=/tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=2784;http://wdch.laphil.com (542 words)

	The Stamitz Family Viola d'amore Society of America
		To fully appreciate the role of the viola d'amore during the 18th century, we need to be aware of the significance of Johann and Carl Stamitz in relation to the instrument and its music.
		The scoring for all three concertos is for Viola d'amore, 2 Flutes, 2 Horns and Strings.
		Using the viola d'amore in place of the viola, this instrumentation results in an intriguing study of blends and contrasts.
	www.violadamoresocietyofamerica.org /TheStamitzFamily.html (2689 words)

	HOASM: The Concerto in the Italian Settecento
		The conservatives continued the tradition of the church concerto in the polyphonic style of Corelli, notably Albicastro, Albinoni, Bonporti, Gregori, Mascitti, and also Alessandro Scarlatti whose retrospective concertos and sinfonie contrast with the progressive style of his operas.
		He enlarged the traditional trio of the concertino to a full string quartet by the addition of the viola and arranged in this heavy medium the trio sonatas of Corelli as concerti grossi-a clear indication that for the conservatives the trio sonata still dominated the conception of the concerto grosso.
		The numerous solo concertos of Tartini are already indebted to the style galant which set an end to the music of the baroque era.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIIA/VIIIATheConcerto.html (338 words)

	Simon Bainbridge - Viola Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Throughout the first movement, the orchestra extends the viola range mainly upwards; the subdued and reflective second movement is predominantly focused on low registers.
		Next the viola is accompanied by low winds and brass, and the 'comment' is extended by an ornate duet between the soloist and an alto flute.
		At the melody's last appearence both accompaniments are superimposed, and a final offstage viola chord signals the final cadenza, in which the soloist disrupts the prevailing calm over a slowly spreading string chord, ultimately shaking the orchestra to respond in an abrupt final tutti-gesture.
	www.ump.co.uk /sb-concerto.htm (433 words)

	"Handel"_Concerto_By_Henri_Casadesus
		While it seems unlikely that a concerto would have been written by Handel for such an obscure instrument (in his time!!) as the viola, the work never-th-eless is deeply rooted in the late Baroque/Early Classical style.
		The arrangement of this movement is almost in rondo form, with the distinctive viola theme returning again and again, and occasionally being echoed by the orchestra.
		This concerto is definately focused on the soloist with the orchestra acting fully as backup.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/2107/viola/casadesu.html (874 words)

	HMV.co.uk: classical: Britten: Violin Concerto; Walton: Viola Concerto (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With the first performance of his Violin Concerto the 25 year old Benjamin Britten reinvented what had become a rather tired form and at the same stroke forced the critics to reassess a composer whom they had previously categorised as cerebral and even somewhat clinical.
		Walton experienced a similar reappraisal ten years later when he confounded the critics with his elegiac viola concerto which revealed a depth of expression and emotional maturity unusual in a young man of 26.
		Both were evidently influenced by Prokofiev whose First Violin Concerto provided a blueprint for these pieces with a lyrical first movement giving way to a robust rhythmical mid-section before the conflict is resolved in the finale.
	www.hmv.co.uk /hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=88412&WT.mc_id=101230 (291 words)

	AfricasGateway.com - Store - Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 2/Viola Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "Concerto Grosso No. 2" for violin, cello, and orchestra was written for the Soviet dynamic duo of violinist Oleg Kagan and his wife the cellist Natalie Gutman, a legendary partnership that ended with Kagan's untimely death.
		The "Viola Concerto" was written in 1985 especially for Yuri Bashmet, the most renown violist of the 1980s and 1990s, and one credited with the rebirth of writing for the instrument.
		However, the viola is battered by the many orchestral forces, and in the long, drawn-out last movement he slowly expires as from a mortal wound.The Viola Concerto is a downer, a piece that charts Schnittke's fascination with pain and death as well as anything else he wrote in the last fifteen years of his life.
	www.africasgateway.com /amazon-buy-B0002IQMO8.html (992 words)

	Kim Kashkashian
		Ideally the viola should be a bit larger to get the best timbre, but that would make it even more difficult to play.
		It was in that century, too, that the viola took its place as a fixture in the standard string ensembles that we know today - the string quartet, quintet and trio.
		The rise of the Romantic style, which needed the subtle coloring of the viola to achieve its lush effects, and the emergence of the viola virtuoso, brought the viola into its own.
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /featured_artists/kashkashian.html (558 words)

	Oxford University Press: Bartok's Viola Concerto: Donald Maurice
		The story of how the concerto came to be, from its commissioning by Primrose to its first performance to the several completions that are performed today is told here in Bartok's Viola Concerto:The Remarkable Story of His Swansong.
		Bartok's Viola Concerto tells the story of the genesis and completion of Bartok's viola concerto, its reception over the second half of the twentieth century, its revisions, and future possibilities.
		Its strength also lies in its detailed documentation and musical insight into the problems surrounding the accurate determination of the compositional parameters as well as the publication and performance rights of such a work left incomplete by the composer...Donald Maurice's book is an important addition to the field of Bartok research.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryWestern/TwentiethCentury/?ci=0195156900&view=usa (746 words)

	Viola Jokes (part 1)
		We all know that a viola is better than a violin because it burns longer.
		It's not that the violas are large; just that the viola players' heads are so small.
		They think he's carrying a viola and might be about to use it.
	web.mit.edu /jcb/www/viola-jokes.html (1014 words)

	Viola Sheet music
		For violin concertato I, II, cello solo, violin di ripieno I, II, viola, contra bass and keyboard.
		For violin I, violin II, viola and cello.
		For 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos.
	www.charliespiano.com /instruments/Viola (143 words)

	American Classics - Schoenfield: Viola Concerto, etc Classical
		American Classics - Schoenfield: Viola Concerto, etc Classical
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	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6761698/a/American+Classics+%2D+Schoenfield%3A+Viola+Concerto%2C+etc.htm (297 words)

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