It's Beginning to Sound Like Christmas
Are you a violist looking for a sheet music book this holiday season? Do you want to spread Christmas cheer with 14 classics? Whether you're playing at the next holiday party, or rockin' around the tree at home, Christmas Favorites – Viola is just what you need! Suitable for intermediate-level musicians, this instrumental solo collection has a festive assortment of seasonal songs. These holiday standards are arranged with clarity for ease of reading and joyful playing.
Instrumental Solos Are Comin' to Town
Hal Leonard has a large collection of instrumental solo play-along books featuring a variety of musical genres. These books present instrumental solos with backing tracks so players can experience the satisfaction of practicing with a full band. Intermediate-level arrangements include friendly keys, simplified rhythms, and engaging ranges perfect for musicians of any age that have been playing for a few years. The viola Instrumental Solo Play-Along Christmas Favorites book is your ticket to the North Pole this holiday season! While this version is arranged for viola, check out the rest of the series for other instrument editions.
Audio Access for the Most Wonderful Songs of the Year
Using a unique code inside each book, accompaniment recordings can be streamed or downloaded. Audio tracks use PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows players to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Learn all the best jingles such as: Blue Christmas • The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) • Christmas Time Is Here • Feliz Navidad • Happy Xmas (War Is Over) • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas • Here Comes Santa Claus (Right down Santa Claus Lane) • (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays • It's Beginning to Look like Christmas • Mele Kalikimaka • Merry Christmas, Darling • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer • Silver and Gold.
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A precious gem of romantic viola literature is now available in Henle quality! Thanks to the publisher's good connections to Russian archives, they were able to assess Glazunov's autograph for the first time for this first Urtext edition, and uncover the discrepancies between the autograph and the first print. Written in 1893 for the Danish violist Franz Hildebrand, the Élégie is one of the few original works of the 19th century for viola and thus a welcome enrichment of the repertoire. Since the piece does not make any particularly high technical demands on the soloist, the Élégie is ideally suited for teaching as well - and Tabea Zimmermann's fingerings guarantee the best possible support.
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These solo instrumental arrangements are faithful to Bernstein's score, and have been idiomatically adapted to the instruments for these editions. Intermediate to Advanced Level.
CONTENTS: Jet Song • Something's Coming • Mambo • Maria • Tonight (Balcony Scene) • America • Cool • One Hand, One Heart • I Feel Pretty • Somewhere. The enhanced CD includes recordings of piano accompaniments for each piece along with tempo adjustment software for CD-ROM computer use.
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Includes these selections from Prokofiev's 1938 ballet: Minuet (Arrival of the Guests), Balcony Scene, Romeo and Juliet Meet Father Lorenzo, Dance of the Knights.
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The accompaniment CD for the folio featuring: Adagio (Schubert) • Allegretto (C.P.E. Bach) • Andante (Mozart) • Boston Fancy (Hornpipe) • German Dance (Dittersdorf) • I'm Just A-Goin' over Jordan • March (Beethoven) • Menuetto (Handel) • O Mensch Bewein Dein Sunde Gross • Romance • Shenandoah • Tambourin • Theme and Variations (Marais) • Verborgenheit (Wolf) • Von Ewiger Liebe (Brahms) • Were You There?
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12 yuletide favorites complete with backing tracks that will make you sound great! Audio is available online via streaming or download. Songs include: All I Want for Christmas Is You • The Christmas Waltz • Happy Holiday • I Wonder As I Wander • I'll Be Home for Christmas • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! • Mary, Did You Know? • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year • My Favorite Things • Silver Bells • This Christmas • White Christmas.
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Includes: The Entertainer, The Easy Winners, and Rag-Time Dance.
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Based on a well-known Chinese folk song, a common influence in Sheng's works. In this setting, the viola should evoke the timbre, and tone quality of a female folk singer.
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Mendelssohn's viola sonata is an early work which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated “d. 14 Febr. 1824.” Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the sonata. It assuredly numbers amongst his most mature early chamber music works. The key already indicates the seriousness with which the composer set to work. The first movement is preceded by a short adagio introduction. The middle movement, a menuetto, retains the key of c minor and not even the trio with its chorale-like melody lightens the minor mood. The closing movement is an andante with eight variations. This Urtext edition is a welcome addition to the scant classical-romantic viola repertoire.
“...just on par with the historically high-class print quality, the Mendelssohn Sonata in C minor for viola and piano found between these particular pages is exactly what you'd expect it to be: superb in every sense...With so few pieces of preeminent repertoire for this alto instrument, Mendelssohn delivers an opportunity for violists to perform and explore music that's deep, lyrical, challenging, and hauntingly beautiful.” –Strings magazine
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Solo arrangements of 15 favorite Christmas songs. The price of this book includes access to online audio demonstration and backing tracks that allow instrumentalists to slow down the audio without changing pitch, loop for challenging parts, and more. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High • Fum, Fum, Fum • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen • I Saw Three Ships • Jingle Bells • O Holy Night • Silent Night • and more.
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13 songs from the classic Boublil and Schönberg musical, including Bring Him Home • Castle on a Cloud • Do You Hear the People Sing • I Dreamed a Dream • On My Own, and more. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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An easy concertino for viola and piano by Ferdinand Küchler, using 1st to 3rd position.
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Easy concertino for viola with piano by Ferdinand Kuchler, in the style of Vivaldi, arranged by Alan Arnold.
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″Apparently the viola is just a somewhat larger violin, simply tuned a fifth lower. In reality though, there is a world of difference between the two instruments.″ • The composer lends weight to his argument with this impressive ″real″ viola piece: extreme high notes are avoided, indeed, one movement is played exclusively on the C string.
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15 popular songs from the Christian/Gospel genre are featured in this collection for solo instrumentalists. Includes a full-accompaniment play-along CD with tempo adjustment software so you can sound just like a pro, and adjust the tempo without changing pitch. Songs include: Agnus Dei • Great Is the Lord • Here I Am to Worship • In Christ Alone • Mighty to Save • There Is a Redeemer • The Wonderful Cross • and more.
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These 14 melodies make perfect material for viola players to use in their first performances. The pieces are technically fairly easy and have been arranged in an increasing degree of difficulty. On the CD included with this book, each melody is performed by a professional viola player. A piano accompaniment is also included, making each melody great for playing along! MORE»
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Get ready to have a blast playing all the fun tunes from Disney's smash hit Encanto! These books feature instrumental solos with online recordings of both demonstration and professional backing tracks so you can practice and then take the lead and sound like a pro! Songs include: All of You • Colombia, Mi Encanto • Dos Oruguitas • The Family Madrigal • Surface Pressure • Waiting on a Miracle • We Don't Talk About Bruno • What Else Can I Do?
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Contents: Ensemble: Divertimento for String Orchestra, 2nd and 3rd Movement (Bartók) • Symphony No. 3, Op. 55, 3rd Movement (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, 2nd Movement (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, 2nd Movement (Beethoven) • Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62 (Beethoven) • Römischer Karneval, Op. 9 (Berlioz) • Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, 5th movement (Berlioz) • Carmen, 1st Act Nos. 6 and 11, 4th Act No. 25 (Bizet) • Symphony No. 3, Op. 90, 1st movement (Brahms) • Symphony No. 4, Op. 98, 1st movement (Brahms) • Haydn-Variations, Op. 56a, Variations 4, 7 and 8 (Brahms) • Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement (Bruckner) • Symphony No. 4, 2ns movement (Bruckner) • La Mer, 2nd and 3rd movements (Debussy) • Philharmoisches Concerto, Variation 1 (Hindemith) • Symphony “Mathis der Mahler”, 3rd movement (Hindemith) • Hänsel and Gretel, 1st Act 3rd Scene and 3rd Act 3rd Scene (Humperdinck) • Symphony No. 1, 4th movement (Mahler) • Symphony No. 5, 3rd and 5th movements (Mahler) • Symphony No. 10, 1st movement (Mahler) • Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, 1st movement (Mendelssohn) • Symphony No. 40, KV. 550, 4th movement (Mozart) • Symphony No. 41, KV 551, 4th movement (Mozart) • Overture from Marraige of Figaro (Mozart) • Overture from Magic Flute (Mozart) • Symphony Classique, Op. 25, 1st and 4th movements (Prokofiev) • Overture from Barber of Seville (Rossini) • Symphony No. 4, 4th Movement (Schubert) • Die verkaufte Braut: Overture and 6th Scene (Smetana) • Don Juan, Op. 20 (Strauss) • Till Eulenspiegelds lustige Streiche, Op. 28 (Strauss) • Symphony No. 5, Op. 64, 3rd movement (Tchaikovsky) • Symphony No. 6, Op. 74, 1st movement (Tchaikovsky) • Don Carlos, 1st Act, No. 3 (Verdi) • Ein Maskenball, Nos. 1 and 2 (Verdi) • Othello, 1st Act (Verdi) • Der fliegende Holländer, 1st procession, Nos. 2 and 6 (Wagner) • Lohengrin, 3rd Act, Introduction and 3rd Scene (Wagner) • Tannhäuser: Overture and 2nd Act, 2nd Scene (Wagner) • Overture from Euryanthe, Op. 81 (Weber) • Der Freischütz, Op. 77: Overture, 1st Act No. 2, and 3rd Act Finale (Weber) • Solo Pieces: Giselle, 2nd Act, No. 21 (Adam) • Lulu, 2nd Act (Berg) • Coppelia, 3rd Act, No. 7 (Delibes) • Hänsel and Gretel, 2nd Act (Humperdinck) • Manon Lescaut, 3rd Act (Puccini) • Arabella, 1st Act (Strauss) • Don Quixote, Op. 35: Theme, Variations 1, 3 and 4 (Strauss) • Der Freischütz, Op. 77, 3rd Act (Weber).
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Great Performer's Edition.
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Viola and piano reduction of Tower's one-movement concerto for viola and orchestra. 19 minutes.
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Arranged by Maud Aldis and Louis Rowe.
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Seven arrangements from the Disney hit movie Moana penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda are included in this collection for instrumentalists. Each book features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: How Far I'll Go • I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors) • Know Who You Are • Shiny • We Know the Way • Where You Are • You're Welcome.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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