Grade by Grade: Viola - Grades 1 - 5

8 Jan 2026

Covers of Grade by Grade Viola Books 1 to 5, published by Boosey & Hawkes. Each book features a stylised purple viola illustration on a pale background, numbered by grade, arranged in a row against a soft green backdrop.

Viola and piano
Carefully selected by Liz Partridge
Includes scales, sight-reading, theory, aural and improvisation tasks
Online audio with performance demos and piano accompaniment
Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Grade by Grade: Viola is a comprehensive repertoire resource for viola players, drawing on the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational music. The series features works by composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others.

Organised into five graded volumes, each book combines repertoire with practice and performance tips, grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios and exercises, sight-reading, music-theory and improvisation activities, as well as aural awareness tasks.

Carefully selected by Liz Partridge, the collection is suitable for players from Grades 1 to 5 and is complemented by online performance demonstrations and piano accompaniment tracks. It offers a well-rounded resource for teaching, exam preparation and performance.