Practice Farm

For violists

Viola études, solos and orchestral excerpts

Practice Farm on iPad: the cello drawn with the page as the music plays
The same page on iPhone
Shown with the cello. In the app, your viola takes its place.

Anything can be played on any instrument. Every page of the library opens in your key and your clef, with your fingerings. Your fingers land on the fingerboard above the page as the music plays.

25
solos, each in your key
31
orchestral passages
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$9.99, paid once. Works offline, no login.

Viola

Solos

25 works, 22 with piano

Written for the viola

  • Bach Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
  • Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

From the string shelf

  • Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
  • Haydn Cello Concerto in D, Hob. VIIb:2
  • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
  • Telemann Fantasias for Solo Violin, TWV 40:14-25

Orchestral excerpts

31 passages
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 3, III · Symphony No. 5, II
  • Berlioz Le Carnaval romain
  • Brahms Symphony No. 2, I · Symphony No. 2, III · Symphony No. 4, II · Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Variation V · Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Variation VII · Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Variation VIII
  • Bruckner Symphony No. 4, II
  • Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo
  • Mozart Symphony No. 35, IV
  • R. Strauss Don Juan · Don Quixote · Ein Heldenleben
  • Ravel Daphnis et Chloé · Ma Mère l'Oye, V. Le jardin féerique
  • Rossini La gazza ladra, Overture
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, I

Études & studies

1,216 pages

Written for the viola

  • Flesch Das Skalensystem1
  • Kreutzer 42 Etudes or Caprices49
  • Wohlfahrt Sixty Studies, Op. 4567

The singers’ books, for every instrument

  • Bordogni Vocalises53
  • Concone 15 Vocalises for Medium Voice, Op. 1215
  • Concone 25 Lessons for Medium Voice, Op. 1025
  • Concone 40 Lessons for Bass, Op. 1740
  • Concone 50 Lessons for Medium Voice, Op. 950
  • Marchesi Vocalises12

And for every instrument: 365 Bach chorales and 275 traditional tunes, in any key you ask for.

The whole library, wherever you practice.

$9.99, paid once. It works offline and needs no login. Download it and play.

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Made by Nick Mahon, principal trombonist of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec and professor at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.