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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR VIOLA

Contemporary music for viola | Contemporary viola music | Modern viola compositions | Viola pieces | Viola repertoire | Unaccompanied  viola music | Viola compositions for the 21st century | New viola music | Viola compositions | Viola music for contemporary ensembles | Contemporary viola composers | Chamber Music with viola | Contemporary viola repertoire | viola sheet music 

UNACCOMPANIED VIOLA

SOLO


In Memoriam (Yizkor)

4' | solo viola

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Contemporary unaccompanied viola music | Solo viola compositions | Modern viola solos | Experimental viola pieces | Solo viola repertoire | Avant-garde viola music | New viola solos | Innovative viola compositions | Progressive viola solos |  Unaccompanied viola scores | Viola solos for the 21st century

VIOLA CHAMBER MUSIC


DUOS
 

Contemporary chamber music for viola | Viola chamber music | Modern viola ensemble pieces | Experimental viola chamber compositions | Chamber music repertoire with viola | Avant-garde viola chamber music | Cutting-edge viola chamber scores | New viola chamber music | Innovative viola ensemble pieces | Progressive viola chamber arrangements | Contemporary viola chamber composers | Viola ensemble performances | Chamber music for viola and other instruments | Viola ensemble repertoire

Chamber music

Dripping Minutes - Frozen Years

8' 30" | viola and piano


TRIOS/ QUARTETS / QUINTETS
 

Frozen Junctions

13' | vibraphone, viola and piano

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Veiled Echoes

15' | flute, viola and harp

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contemporary music for viola

Little Suite

12' | clarinet, violin, viola and cello

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Voices from India
string quartet no. 1

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Hope Cycles

string quartet no. 2

24' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Whispered Questions

string quartet no. 3

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Soliloquy

string quartet no. 4

17' | string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello)

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Piano Quintet

18' | piano, violins (2), viola and cello

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V5 – Quintet for Vibraphone and String Quartet

for vibraphone and string quartet

17' | vibraphone, violins (2), viola and cello

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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
 

Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble

for chamber ensemble

12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

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VOCAL MUSIC WITH VIOLA

VOCAL MUSIC WITH FLUTE


Spring Calls

for soprano and ensemble

10' 30" | leggiero soprano (also plays small percussion instruments), flute, viola, cello and harp

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Contemporary unaccompanied viola music | Solo viola compositions | Modern viola solos | Experimental viola pieces | Solo viola repertoire | Avant-garde viola music | New viola solos | Innovative viola compositions | Progressive viola solos |  Unaccompanied viola scores | Viola solos for the 21st century

STAGE MUSIC WITH VIOLA

Stage


Beauty and the Beast

for narrator and ensemble

31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano

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The Little Mermaid

for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra

36' | actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet

OR

actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section

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Sheet Music for Viola:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Viola Repertoire

Solo Viola

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza VI – solo viola – 1967

  • Elliott Carter – Figment IV – solo viola – 2007

  • György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Viola – solo viola – 1994

  • Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1 – solo viola – 1922

  • John Cage – One8 – solo viola – 1991

  • Toru Takemitsu – A Bird Came Down the Walk – solo viola – 1994

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Cadenza – solo viola – 1984

  • Rebecca Clarke – Viola Sonata – solo viola – 1919

  • Gérard Grisey – Prologue – solo viola – 1976

  • Brian Ferneyhough – Incipits – solo viola – 1996

Viola and Piano

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Viola Sonata, Op. 147 – viola and piano – 1975

  • Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (arr. for viola and piano) – viola and piano – 1935-1936

  • Claude Debussy – Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp – viola and piano – 1915

  • Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae, Op. 48 – viola and piano – 1950

  • Henri Vieuxtemps – Elegie, Op. 30 – viola and piano – 1854

  • Ernest Bloch – Suite Hébraïque – viola and piano – 1951

  • Frank Bridge – Lament – viola and piano – 1912

  • William Walton – Viola Concerto (arr. for viola and piano) – viola and piano – 1929

  • Aram Khachaturian – Sonata for Viola and Piano – viola and piano – 1976

Viola Chamber Works

  • Anton Webern – Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 – viola and piano – 1914

  • George Crumb – Sonata for Viola and Piano – viola and piano – 1965

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis – viola and piano – 1974-75

  • Harrison Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows – viola and ensemble – 1989-1996

  • Tania León – Axon – viola and ensemble – 2001

  • Kaija Saariaho – Vent Nocturne – viola and electronics – 2006

  • Steve Reich – Different Trains – viola and tape – 1988

  • Tristan Murail – C’est un jardin secret – viola and electronics – 1976

  • Helmut Lachenmann – Toccatina – viola and ensemble – 1986

  • Gérard Grisey – Anubis-Nout – viola and ensemble – 1983

Viola Concertos

  • Béla Bartók – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1945

  • Paul Hindemith – Der Schwanendreher – viola and orchestra – 1935

  • William Walton – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1929

  • Alfred Schnittke – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1985

  • Krzysztof Penderecki – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1983

  • Bohuslav Martinů – Rhapsody-Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1952

  • James MacMillan – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 2013

  • György Ligeti – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1993

  • John Adams – The Dharma at Big Sur (viola version) – viola and orchestra – 2003

  • Kaija Saariaho – Graal Théâtre (viola version) – viola and orchestra – 1994

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