Darius Milhaud - Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano, Op.

240 (1944) [Score-

Video]:
https://youtu.be/1aivV6n5efU?t=206

Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto (score)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffdximbKSY1

1. History (here is it from)

2. Costruction
3. Notation
a. Ho do you notate these insturments
b. Articulation
c. Extended techinques
4. Literature
a. Listening
b. Videos
*talk more about the history

FROM THE BOOK:

VIOLA

Alto (Fr.); Bratsche (De.)

1. Alto voice of the string section

2. Similar playing style to the violin
3. 2-3 inches longer than the violin
4. Sloest to emerge into the consciousness of composers
5. WHY ISN’T THERE A LOT OF SOLO VIOLA REPERTOIRE
a. Composers in 18th century rarely wrote for independent voices (i.e. basso continuo +
violin or something)
b. Most violists were former violinists and were not completely trusted by composers
6. Bach, Mozart, etc wrote occasional solos or concert works for the viola, but Berlioz as
recognized one of the first composers to give the viola independent voice writing (1800s)
7. Bow is slightly heavier
8. Strings are thicker and more resistant to the bow
a. Firmer bowstroke to produce sound
9. Sound is dark and warm
10. TUNING and FINGERING
a. C, G, D, A
b. [insert diagram here]
c. Same fingering system as violin
d. [chrt?]
e. Multiple stops can be performed divisi by the viola section in the orchestra
 f. [quad stop chart)
11. Viola in orchestra
a. Can be used as the base of the string section: https://youtu.be/qU0d0zuNn7k?t=58

b. Usually octave below violin; sometimes cello: https://youtu.be/yKl4T5BnhOA?t=428

12. Solo viola
a. Baroque composers wrote many works for the viola
b. Classical composers did not
c. … but 20th-century composers did, again – viola concertos by Bartok and Walton, Der
Schwanendreher by Hindemith, Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-wlmMNU6c
d. Scriabin, Poem of Ecstasy (score): https://youtu.be/j1dSgQ8LV4o?t=71
e. Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (score): https://youtu.be/rP42C-4zL3w?t=1260
f. R. Strauss, Don Quixote Var. 2 (score): https://youtu.be/5PvCGu2Ue0U?t=449
g. Bartok, Viola Concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URoGryx2Fkc
13. Viola d’amore
a. Not a regular member of the orchestra (#endcontractulization)
b. 7 strings, with 7 sympathetic strings threaded through the bridge right above the belly
c. Still used in many compositions for its unique timbre
d. [tuning chart]
e. D minor, A major, A minor, etc
f. Antonio Vivaldi | Viola d'amore Concerto in D Minor (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHSsSCKex-E
g. Technique of artificial harmonics is easier to execute (touch fourth); all other bowing,
fingering, and coloristic effects of violin can be executed