Viola
instruments | repertoire | strings | viola
Repertoire examples for Viola, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.
Kennan and Grantham (2002, pp. 30–31), The Technique of Orchestration.
Suggested listening for Viola. Playlist available here on Spotify.
“Wagner, Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, meas. 90.
Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet, letter G;
Tchaikovsky, Fifth Symphony, 3rd movt., letter E.
Strauss, Don Quixote, meas. 18, etc.;
Till Eulenspiegel, m. 179 (Gemachlich).
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Caucasian Sketches: In the Village.
Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, figure 158.
Bartok, Musicfor String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta, beginning; 3rd movt., meas. 6.
William Schuman, American Festival Overture, 5 bars after figure 80.
Dominick Argento, In Praise ofMusic, 4th movt.” pp. 30–31
