Viva Viola

Instrumentation

Viola tutor

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Viva Viola's  studies for technique owe much to the influence of the great American teacher Paul Rolland, and seek first and foremost to encourage a relaxed and uninhibited posture with both left and right arms moving freely and easily around the viola.  Intonation is stressed, not least by the regular part-playing which is a built-in feature of the scheme since the studies combine with a similar number of progressive 'melody-time' tunes.
This work was first published in 1988, as a companion book to the violin tutor 42 Moments of Music Making, where a fuller explanation of the work's rationale can be found.