Compiled edited and arranged for viola and piano by Marguerite Wilkinson and Katharine Hart. Some of these pieces are in the ABRSM and Trinity syllabuses.

Haydn to Humperdinck, show tunes to spirituals- variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire for Viola.  Here, in three books, are over 60 carefull graded elementary pieces, which skilfully explore the viola's unique sonorities and provide a superb introductory literature for the young player.

Contents:

• Somebody's Knocking At Your Door
• Waltz [Brahms, Johannes]
• Polonaise [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
• German Dance [Haydn, Franz Joseph]
• Waltz [Weber, Carl Maria Von]
• Waltz [Schubert, Franz]
• Almand
• Romanze [Steibelt, Daniel]
• Turkish March [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]
• Somebody's Knockin' At Your Door
• Galop Infernal [Offenbach, Jacques]
• Gavotte [Martini, Giovanni Battista]
• Prelude (Te Deum) [Charpentier, Marc Antoine]
• Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (Oklahoma!) [Rogers, Richard] [Hammerstein, Oscar]
• Habanera [Phillip Bass]
• Sailors' Dance (Dido And Aeneas) [Purcell, Henry]
• The Bold Gendarmes (Genevieve de Brabant) [Offenbach, Jaques]
• Les Bergers Rustiques [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
• Allegretto (Clarinet Quintet) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
• Allegro (Kinder-Sonate) [Schumann, Robert]
• Kuhreigen [Greig, Edvard]