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Take a journey through time with More Time Pieces for Viola Grade 4-7. These two volumes contain well-crafted arrangements, presented in chronological order, to take you from the seventeenth century right up to the present day.

More Time Pieces for Viola Grade 4-7 Features:

• Pieces that regularly feature on the ABRSM Viola syllabus.
• Invaluable source of recital repertoire.
• Contrasting styles, from Schubert to Stravinsky and from Wagner to Weill.
• Arrangements that practise the note ranges and keys of the grades.

 

Maggy Lamb played the Viola with English National Opera and the Philharmonia Orchestra before taking up the post of Head of Strings at St Peter’s School in York. She now divides her time between teaching, performing and examining. Rachel Meredith is a Bristol University graduate. After a period performing both in the UK and abroad, she now teaches upper strings in York. Rachel is also a syllabus selector and examiner for ABRSM.

More Time Pieces for Viola Grade 4-7 SongList:

1. Bourrée (from the Suite in G major) [Purcell, Henry]
2. Réjouissance (from Klingende Geographie) [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
3. Musette (from Alcina) [Handel, George Frideric]
4. Lied (from the Peasant Cantata) [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
5. Dance (from Sémiramide) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
6. Theme and Variations (from Baryton Trio No. 2) [Haydn, Joseph]
7. Contredance (from Contredances for J. R. Count Czernin) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
8. Minuet (from Serenade no. 1) [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
9. Allegramente (from Rondo for piano duet) [Weber, Carl Maria von]
10. Farewell to the Woods (from Six Songs op. 59) [Mendelssohn, Felix]
11. Romance (from Die Zauberharfe) [Schubert, Franz]
12. Aria (from Il Corsaro) [Verdi, Giuseppe]
13. March (from Don Procopio) [Bizet, Georges]
14. Hoping in Vain (from Four Duets op. 3) [Dvorák, Antonín]
15. Song without Words op. 40 [Tchaikowsky, Peter I]

ABRSM is the UK’s largest music education body, one of its largest music publishers and the world’s leading provider of music exams, holding over 650,000 assessments in more than 90 countries every year. As a registered charity, we also make significant donations towards music education initiatives around the world.

It all started in 1889, with a proposition that would change everything. Sir Alexander MacKenzie, principal of the Royal Academy of Music, suggested to Sir George Grove, director of the Royal College of Music, that their two pre-eminent musical training institutions unite to create a new examining body “inspired by disinterested motives for the benefit of musical education… which would genuinely provide a stimulus and an objective for a high standard of achievement”.

The new body, ABRSM, was designed specifically to provide an impartial and authoritative alternative to privately owned examining institutions, which were widely perceived to be motivated more by mercenary concerns than a real desire to promote high standards of musical education and assessment.

From the very beginning, ABRSM had a duty imposed by the Charter of the Royal College to promote ‘the cultivation and dissemination of the art of Music in the United Kingdom and throughout the Dominions’. By 1892, the University of the Cape of Good Hope had invited ABRSM to conduct exams in the Cape Colony.

By 1895, Australia, New Zealand and Canada were all receiving visits from ABRSM’s examiners. Exams were introduced to Malta in 1903 and the West Indies in 1907. By 1948, ABRSM had representatives in South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Malta, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Cyprus, Singapore and Kenya.

Our partnership work is never one-off – we build long-lasting relationships and support ongoing projects. We advocate for music, playing our part to ensure the future of music education and its place in society. Working towards this goal for over a century means that we’re a trusted voice at a boardroom table as well as on a concert stage.

Led by our governing body our staff members, examiners and volunteers work with passion and dedication to make learning music what it should always be: a joyous and life-enriching experience.

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