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VIOLA MUSIC BY WOMEN

The "sister" anthology is here! Beginning, Intermediate 1, and Intermediate 2 volumes available.
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Viola Music by Women: Table of Contents by Volume

​Volume 1: Beginning

This volume is all in first position (with some optional third position in the last piece). There's quite an assortment of styles for you to enjoy. While many of the pieces are transcribed from the violin volume, titles in purple are newly commissioned pieces for viola only! Don't forget to read the composer biographies at the back of the violin book!

Eve Hungerford       
     An Old World Minuet
     The Gipsy Fiddler 

Edith L. Winn    
     From the Carolina Hills, Op. 15          
          No. 3: “A Picture”          
          No. 4: “The Sunshine Lad”         
          No. 6: “Buy My Pine”
Eve Hungerford  
     The Marionettes
Hannah M. Bartel

     Kansas Memories Suite
          “Rainy Daze” 
          “Green Tomatoes” 
          “’Lil Blue”           
          “The Ice Skating Pond”
Charlotte Louise Woodbridge
     Dance of the Gnomes 
Wendy Ireland
     Kitty Miniatures
          "Giocoso Gattino"
          "Avventuroso Gattino"
          "Tarantella Segreta"
          "Sonnolento Gattino"

Josephine Trott     
     Two Tuneful Sketches           
          “The Town Clock”           
          “At Dancing School”
Ethel Barns
     Aria 
Mary Cohen
     Lean Mean Tango
     Night Flight

Volume 2: Intermediate 1

The Intermediate 1 volume contains pieces that use first, second and third positions, with occasional forays up to the half-string harmonic. There are chances to use your vibrato as well as show your fast fingers. Upbow staccato, spiccato and artificial harmonics are included-- stretch your technical muscles! For violists only: get your Celtic on with "Irish Fancy" (suggestions for ornamentation in the back), and explore whole-tone scales in the spooky "Ruined Castle"!

Wendy Ireland
     Irish Fancy

Florence Morey

     Tanglefoot's Mad Chase
Ethel Harraden Glover
     At Twilight
     Gavotte
Grace White
     Impromptu
Mary Cohen
     The Ruined Castle

Grace White

     Over the Snow
Julia Klumpkey
     The Goblins Will Get You
Wendy Ireland
     Romanza

Mary O'Hara
     The Sunset Dance

Volume 3: Intermediate 2

The music in volume 3, Intermediate 2, grows in musical and technical demands as you grow with it! Using first through fifth positions (with the last piece pushing the envelope into sixth), works range from a Baroque period sonata, to several pieces with contemporary idioms, and then on to a Bollywood-inspired dance by New Zealand composer Claire Scholes. All but two pieces in this volume are original viola compositions--have fun!

Josephine Trott
     In a Spanish Garden
Beatrice Mattei
     Sonata per Viola e Cembalo
Freda Swain
     Song at Evening
Patsy Gritton
     Jazz Dance 
Miriam Hyde
     Passing Thoughts
     Scherzino

Gena Branscombe
     An Old Love Tale
Julia Klumpkey
     Two Dances
Louise Lincoln Kerr
     Toccata
Claire Scholes
     Diwali Aukilani II