Violin and Cello

SKU: BT.MUSM570360130

Composed by Thomas Simaku. Score Only. 9 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570360130. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570360130).

English.

For Violin and Cello. Published 2008. Dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Neil Heyde. This music was composed during my DAAD residency in Berlin in October — November 2007. If I were to describe it in one sentence, I would say that it is based on the idea of 'two things seen/heard as one'. a2 (a due) is a well-known term to musicians; it is often found in orchestral scores indicating a given passage that is to be played by two instruments of the same family. Although violin and cello could well be regarded as 'first cousins' of the string family, the literal implementation of the term a2 as a 'compositional strategy' would have been too much (!) for a piece of chamber music consisting of no more than two players. Not surprisingly, this never happens in this work; in fact, the opposite is true: regardless of how it appears on paper (i.e. on one or two staves), the music for each instrument is constantly based on two layers. This musical 'interpretation' of the title gives an indication as to how the textural format of the piece operates. However, this was by no means the only thought that 'preoccupied' my mind whilst composing this music. Berlin made a profound impression on me. The remnants of the wall in Bernauer Straße and the cobbled two-stone line tracing the wall across where it once stood — a clear reminder of what not so long ago there were two different worlds in one city — provoked a strikingly dramatic effect. Border, death-strip, killing, and escape to freedom had a particularly evocative resonance, especially of the time when I lived for three years in a remote town in Southern Albania right at the border with Greece. There, there was a nameless road whose destination the authorities did not want you to know, but the locals called it the 'death-road'. In no way programmatic, in this context, the extra-musical dimension of the principal idea is very much part of the piece. Here, the musical and extra-musical interpretations cannot easily be separated, for they are two parts of the same thing: a2. As if to add another dimension to this idea, there are two versions of this piece: for viola & cello and violin & cello. The first version was premiéred by Garth Knox and Rohan de Saram at the 2008 Intrasonus Festival in Venice..

Composed by Michael Dalmau Colina. For violin and cello. This edition: unbound. 2 playing scores. 10 pages. Duration 5 minutes. Published by Bill Holab Music

Violin and cello

SKU: M7.BP-1812

1943. Composed by Richard Flury. Sheet music. Score and parts. Amadeus Verlag #BP 1812. Published by Amadeus Verlag (M7.BP-1812).

ISBN 9790015181207.

Violin and cello

SKU: M7.BP-1807

Composed by Leopold Hofmann. Edited by Yvonne Morgan. Sheet music. Score and parts. Amadeus Verlag #BP 1807. Published by Amadeus Verlag (M7.BP-1807).

ISBN 9790015180705.

Violin and Cello

SKU: M7.BP-1962

For Violin and Cello. Composed by Andreas Romberg and Bernhard Romberg. Edited by Bernhard Pauler. Sheet music. Score and parts. Op. 2. Amadeus Verlag #BP 1962. Published by Amadeus Verlag (M7.BP-1962).

ISBN 9790015196201.

Violin and Cello

SKU: HL.646028

Composed by Frantz Hitz. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Educational Piano. Softcover. Op. 90/2. Duration 7200 seconds. Schaum Publications, Inc. #3129. Published by Schaum Publications, Inc. (HL.646028).

ISBN 9790221110695. UPC: 888680656799. 1.5x1.25x0.388 inches.

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