Hans Sitt: Practical Viola Method

Contents

• Introductions
• The Viola and its Component Parts
• The Clefs and Notations for the Viola
• The placing of the fingers
• Intervals
• Scales in all the Major and Minor Keys
• Exercises for Different Note Values and Rhythmic Varieties
• Exercises for Various Bowing Varieties
• Finger Exercises
• The Positions
• Second Positions
• Third Position
• Fourth Position
• Fifth Position
• Sixth Position
• Seventh Position
• The Half Position
• Examples of showing employment of the Half Position
• Scale Exercises in all Keys and Positions
• Scales in Broken Thirds
• Triads
• Exercises in Diminished Chords of the Seventh
• The Chromatic Scale
• Preparatory Studies for the Trill
• Trills with a Turn
• The Mordent
• The Turn
• Double Stops
• Exercises for Double Stops with Shifts
• Exercises for Chords and Arpeggios