Contents: Preface · On Musical Notation · On the Viola · Key to Symbols · The First Bowing Exercises on Open Strings · Exercises for Changing Strings · Placing the Fingers of the Left Hand in First Position · First Exercises for Simultaneous Fingering and Bowing · Exercises for the Shoulder Joint · Thirds · Triads · Bowing Two Strings Simultaneously · Second Position · Minor Triads · Syncopation · Intervals · The Dominant Seventh Chord · Exercises for the Shoulder Joint · For Consolidating First and Second Positions · Third Position · Bowing Exercises in Dotted Rhythm · Fourth Position · Fifth Position · Bowing Exercises · The Hammered Bow (Martelé) · Bowing Exercise in 6/8 Time · The Thrown Bowing · Half Position · Using the Same Finger Twice · The Minor Scale · Exercises with the Augmented Second Interval · Bowing Exercises · The First Dynamic Exercises · Bowing Technique Appendix