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Viola Sheet Music

Need viola sheet music? Here is some ideas of where to find it. There is

much more viola music than most people expect!

First of all, here you can find some exclusive viola sheet music, my own transcriptions for viola of some folk tunes and a very famous classical piece. You can listen to them as well.

I decided to publish this collection of viola music because several times some people asked me where they could find the notes for the music I was playing.

Then, after these tunes, you'll find links to more viola sheet music on this website.

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Lovely Melodies:

Solo Viola

Viola Duo or

a Bunch of Violas!

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – J.S. Bach
Michael Turner’s Waltz
The Greenwood Tree
The South Wind
Fanny Power
The Skye Boat Song
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Sportsman’s Hornpipe The Road to Lisdoonvarna
O Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
My love is like a red, red rose coming soon... Ye Banks and Braes coming soon... Iron legs coming soon...

So here above are for you a few folk tunes and songs and one very famous classical

music piece. Why together? Well, in the past most “classical” (as we now call them) composers knew, took inspiration and used folk music, it was part of their work. For example, just to name a few, Bach wrote Gigues (Jigs) and other folk dances, Mozart wrote Ländler or German Dances (one of which must have inspired Michael Turner’s Waltz) and Beethoven worked for over ten years for the Scottish publisher George Thomson of Edinburgh, arranging for piano trio collections of folk tunes from different European countries. I think it’s good for both classical and folk players to play different types of music.

Bach’s Choral needs no presentation. It is such a wonderful piece and on the viola it sound really gorgeous. You need to be aware that you will be playing both the orchestra and the choir part, so play it accordingly.

As to folk music, the basic structure of folk tunes is composed of two phrases, A B with repeats, that is A A B B; the songs are A B without repeats. When you’ve played this once, you can repeat the whole tune or song a few times (I suggest three times all together), adding your own variations.

In this collection you’ll see that tunes and songs are written in different ways, so as to be played by a solo viola, a viola duo or a group of violas. These are just suggestions for your performance, each of them can be played in either way, as you prefer.

In most cases, repeats are written out, with variations.

I recommend you to play them by heart, getting rid of the “dots” as soon as you can. It’s a good practice and you’ll enjoy them more. Also, being free from that piece of paper, you can focus on giving the music to your listeners and making them, too, enjoy it more, which is the most important thing.

Finally, love your listeners and they’ll love you and your viola!

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