Playing the Viola

Playing & Learning the Viola

Discover many tips & recommendations here for learning to play the viola, practising and developing your skills on the instrument. You will find a selection of the most popular schools, expert tips, and of course, recommendations from our extensive range of sheet music for viola and viola method books:

Viola Sheet Music – New Releases & Recommendations

The Most Popular Viola Tuition, Schools & Method Books & Exercises for Viola

Very popular tuition books for viola, especially for children, include "Vamoosh Viola Book", "Early Start on the Viola", and of course the viola school by Shin'ichi Suzuki.

Popular method books for viola include Ramin Entezami's "Melodic Etudes" and the classic string method book Otakar Ševčík's "School of Bowing Technique". There is also a new viola tuition book from Faber Music "Stringtastic Book".

Vamoosh Viola Book Vamoosh Viola Book 1 by Thomas Gregory
Early Start on the Viola Early Start on the Viola 1 by Egon & Kurt Saßmannshaus
Viola School 1 Viola School 1 by Shin'ichi Suzuki
Melodic Etudes Melodic Etudes 1 by Ramin Entezami
School of Bowing Technique School of Bowing Technique op. 2/1 by Otakar Ševčík
Stringtastic Book Stringtastic Book 1 by Mark Wilson & Paul Wood

Expert Tips & Knowledge for Viola

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Michele Galvagno – Artistic Score Engraving

Michele Galvagno – Artistic Score Engraving

Cellist Michele Galvagno became a music engraver in order to provide other musicians with the best possible editions of sheet music. Find out in our interview how he is committed to the composers Friedrich Dotzauer and Alfredo Piatti, how time-consuming the work process from manuscript to finished edition is and how scores have changed over the course of history.

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Music: A Field with Future?

Music: A Field with Future?

Given the current crises in the world, advancing digitization, cuts in the cultural sector, and in music education, one can rightly ask: Will the music profession still exist in the future? Music educator Kristin Thielemann discusses current challenges and opportunities in the professional music sector and encourages a career related to music.

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