Eksempler på viola

• After being interrupted by this activity, the slow bass line is then sequenced in the violas and reintroduces the phrase (at rehearsal number 25).

• It is an attractive work, distinguished as probably the first real viola concerto in existence.

• During the course of the work, an archaic-sounding theme on viola, like a mediaeval chant or carol, is transmogrified and splintered.

• The notion of the solo viola as the narrator of the poem is immediately implanted.

• The soloist typically sings over repeated semiquaver viola figures - there are no violins - at the upper, more mellifluous end of his range.

• Footnotes in the separate viola part relate to editorial decisions made concerning it alone, and these comments are not duplicated in the piano reduction.

• The boy-to-girl ratios for learning viola, cello and double bass were 7:3, 7:3 and 5:1 respectively.

• Initial discrete cells presented by a viola are permutated and distributed among other solo instruments in a gradually proliferating internal dialogue characteristic of chamber music.

• The tonal variety accorded it, first by the cello, then the viola, does seem to mirror the refracting effect of water on the visible.

• Four times the viola initiates further discussion, but the discourse closes, unresolved and uneasy.

• For most of the time the two violins are coupled in euphonious thirds, the viola and bass in tenths.

• Most arias are accompanied only by strings: violins (sometimes divided, sometimes unison), violas and bassi.

• Reflections (1960) for viola, clarinet, oboe and harp finds the composer at her most relaxed and good-humoured.

• At one point she goes to a 'conventional' viola tutor, who teaches her to read notation.

• Towards the end, the viola presented a memorably ardent cantabile rendering of the keening lament, brutally interrupted by tormenting tutti interjections.