Shorter Pieces for viola and piano

ISBN 10: 0193865998 ISBN 13: 9780193865990

Publisher: Oxford University Press Music, 2002

Synopsis

A collection of six pieces for the viola - the instrument which made Rebecca Clarke a well-known name. The pieces aren't too difficult (most being suitable for high school students) and several would make fine recital pieces.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Clarke was born in Harrow in 1886 and died in New York City in 1979. She was one of the finest viola players of her day and a skilful composer who studied with Stanford at the Royal College of Music in London. Her output as a composer was small, comprising about 90 works, but all these pieces are brilliant and powerful. Her Piano Trio and Viola Sonata are often played and recorded, and are now widely regarded as masterpieces. However her songs are perhaps her finest body of works, and embrace a variety of styles from Blakean simplicity to brutal tragedy and outright farce. Rebecca Clarke's choral music was virtually unknown until Oxford University Press began to publish these works for the first time. She wrote for chorus and other vocal ensembles throughout virtually her whole career, from her earliest attempts at composition around 1906 to her final flowering in the 1940s, revising and recomposing until as late as 1976.

Review

These are essential works for viola players. As well as being a fine player herself, Rebecca Clarke had a lyrical and emotionally valid idiom. The larger items call for a fairly advanced technique, but their musical value means that the effort to master them will prove entirely worthwhile. * Christopher Wellington, Stringendo (AUSTA Journal) Oct 03 * These are terrific little pieces! * Ann Frederking, CVS Newsletter 2003 (Canada) *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Music
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0193865998
• ISBN 13: 9780193865990
• Binding: Sheet music
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32