Viola bibliography

Almost every book has its own bibliography and also some websites do, so here it is, the viola bibliography. I am a fan of bibliographies, and I find them very useful but…

What is a bibliography? To me it is a sort of map to go back to the source of a river, in our case, a river of information. It’s also like clicking on a page link on Internet (only it takes a bit longer), you go somewhere else which is related in some way, but you may end up with discovering a completely new world!

So, if you’d like to read more about the viola, composers and music in general, here is a list of some of the material I consulted or mentioned in this website. I’ll be adding more things now and then. You can find a lot more information on CD/LP sleeves, sheet music prefaces, concert programmes, museum descriptions… I’d dare to say… almost everywhere.

I’ve sorted these books by title (excluding the article), which I think says something to everybody, more than the author’s name. This is the formatting for this list: 

Title, Author, Publisher.

I wish you to find some useful information. I think you can find many of these books mentioned in viola bibliography in public libraries (some books are out of print) and music/book stores for new or used books. Otherwise, you can click one of the titles you like, to go to worldwide shops.

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• History of an era - An interpretation of two works for viola - Shostakovich Sonata for viola and piano and Bartok Concerto for viola and orchestra"; Michael Kugel
  
• History of the viola; Maurice Riley
• Max Bruch, His life and works; Fifield Christopher,
• Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, from 1803 to 1865; translated by David Cairns - French - Italian - Spanish
• Mozart - His character, his work; Einstein Alfred
• My viola and I; Lionel Tertis
• New approach to violin playing; Havas K.; Bosworth
• New Grove dictionary of music and musicians; on CD rom offline online
• Playing the viola - Conversations with William Primrose; Dalton David; OUP
• Stage fright - Causes and cures; Havas K.; Bosworth
• The twelve lesson course in A new approach to violin playing; Havas K.; Bosworth
• Treatise on instrumentation and orchestration; Berlioz H.,
  in French
  
• Viola concerto (facsimile), Stamitz C.; Fuzeau
  
• Walk on the North side - Memoirs of a violist; Primrose W.;

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Give music!

Music is always the perfect gift, donate it to all your friends. You can use these works also as a great gifts. You are spoilt for choice, here are some music gift ideas for a musician. A nice present would be a subscription to a downloadable sheet music website, related to the viola and not only, also good for any other instrument, printed sheet music, or you can find a list of more viola books, music-minus-one CDs (to play solo accompanied by a real orchestra) or find here many more music gift ideas for a musician and funny gadgets.

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