Council for Higher Education in Music

VIOLA

Technical Skills:
(to be developed over the Freshman and Sophomore Years) Major and minor scales, arpeggios, détaché, martelé, legato, and mixed bowings. 

Exercises/Studies:
Flesch, Scale Studies.  Kayser, Studies.  Mazas, Etudes spéciales or brillantes.  Kreutzer, Studies.

Repertoire:
(Freshman Year) Telemann, Concerto in G.  Haydn, Divertimento in D.  Bach, Sonatas for Viola da gamba.
(Sophomore Year) Handel-Casadesus, Concerto in b minor.  Bach, Cello Suites.   Works comparable to the above.