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J.F. MazasSelected Etudes for Viola

from Études mélodiques et progressives, Op. 36

Compiled and Edited byLawrence Wheeler

Table of ContentsForeword...........................................................................................2About Lawrence Wheeler...............................................................2

from Études speciales, Op. 36, Book INo. 1. Crescendo and Diminuendo..........................................3No. 2. The Broad Stroke .............................................................4No. 3. The Firm Stroke ..............................................................5No. 4. The Sweeping Stroke .......................................................6No. 5. Détaché .............................................................................8No. 6. Staccato ...........................................................................10No. 7. Cantabile.........................................................................11No. 8. Division of the Bow in the Cantilena..........................14No. 9. March ..............................................................................12No. 10. Vigorously, at the Point of the Bow.............................13No. 15. The Mordent...................................................................15No. 16. Various Bowings ............................................................16No. 17. Various Bowings ...........................................................22No. 18. Romance .........................................................................18No. 23. Short Staccato Strokes and Octaves ............................20No. 25. At the Frog......................................................................23No. 26. Polonaise.........................................................................24No. 27. Cantabile Passages and Double-Stops ........................26No. 28. Ease in Bowing...............................................................28No. 29. The Chatterbox ..............................................................30

from Études brillantes, Op. 36, Book IINo. 31. Melody ............................................................................32No. 37. The Arpeggio..................................................................34No. 39. Bowing Exercise on Two Strings .................................38No. 43. Bowing Exercise.............................................................36No. 44. Various Bowings ...........................................................40No. 45. Springing Bow................................................................42No. 47. Staccato ...........................................................................44No. 49. Grazioso..........................................................................39No. 50. Bowing Exercise.............................................................46No. 52. Bowing Exercise.............................................................48No. 53. Bowing Exercise.............................................................50No. 54. Rapid Finger Exercise ...................................................52No. 56. The Mordent Exercise ...................................................54

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ForewordThis edition is based on the original edition for violin. Great care has been given to ensure the accuracy of notes, rhythms and dynamics. Clef changes reflect modern practice and fingerings use all the positions. Each etude will show alternate fingerings in parentheses and may also suggest alternate bowings. These do not alter the intent or goal of the etudes, but may work better for the individual student or performer. Metronome markings are goals, with initial practice beginning much slower. 

—Lawrence Wheeler

Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782-1849) was a French composer, conductor, violinist, and pedagogue. He is best remembered for a set of 75 Études mélodiques et progressives, Op. 36, consisting of three parts: Études speciales, Études brillantes and Études d-artistes. 

This book is a selection of 33 etudes from Book One (Nos. 1–30) and Book Two (Nos. 31–56). The etudes included here are those that are most applicable for study by the modern violist. Those etudes not selected are technical exercises of limited musical variety. The study and teaching of these etudes should prove invaluable for developing and maintaining technical skills and musicianship. They may be studied in any order, according to the needs of the player. Any would be excellent choices for region and state auditions.

About Lawrence WheelerA graduate of the Juilliard School, he has taught at the Meadowmount School for Strings and the ENCORE School for Strings, where he worked with many of the gifted younger generation of string players, including Leila Josefowicz and Hilary Hahn. He has also taught and performed at the Musicorda Music Festival in Massachusetts, the Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine, and the Texas Music Festival in Houston. For nineteen years he directed the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra, which he founded in 1990. An advocate of music education, he has sent more of his viola students to Texas All-State orchestras than any private teacher of any instrument, including sixteen Symphony, three Philharmonic, and two String Ensemble first-chair players. His YouTube videos of Texas All-State viola music, as well as various live performances, have been viewed more than 75,000 times. His former students have positions in the Houston Ballet and Opera Orchestras and the Pittsburgh Symphony; at Da Camera, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center; at the Berklee College of Music, Sam Houston State University, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University and Harvard University; and several are teaching music in Houston area schools.

Mr. Wheeler performs on a viola made in Milan, Italy by Carlo Antonio Testore in 1741.

Lawrence Wheeler is a professor at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. He has served as Principal Violist of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, Co-Principal of the Minnesota Orchestra, and guest Principal with the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and Mercury. He has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Icelandic National Symphony, Texas Chamber Orchestra, Hilton Head Chamber Orchestra, and the UNAM Philharmonic in Mexico City. In 2005, he gave the second U.S. performance of the Theofanidis Viola Concerto, with the composer conducting. In 2015, he gave the second U.S. performance of the Viola Sonata by Boris Pigovat. Familiar to Houston audiences through numerous solo, recital and chamber music appearances, Mr. Wheeler has given recitals in New York at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, in London at Wigmore Hall, at International Viola Congresses in Stuttgart, Houston, and Iceland, as well as recitals in Mexico City and throughout Texas. For several years he was violist of the Lyric Art String Quartet, whose compact-disc, Classical Hollywood, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990. His chamber music performances have included concerts with the Tokyo, St. Lawrence, Pro Arte and Tallis String Quartets and the Mirecourt Trio. He has performed in recital with many eminent musicians such as Fredell Lack, Kenneth Goldsmith, Frank Huang, Emanuel Borok, Lynn Harrell, Desmond Hoebig, Lazslo Varga, Ruth Thomforde, Albert Hirsh, and Abbey Simon. His articles have appeared in Strings Magazine and The Strad Magazine. He has published a fully edited and realized edition of the Telemann Viola Concerto (the first of its kind in 300 years), the Mazas Etudes for Viola, a Suite for Viola and Piano by Alexander Tcherepnine, and his own Caprices for Solo Viola, Op. 1.

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Compiled and edited by Lawrence Wheeler

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Selected Etudes for Viola

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