by Stacy Phillips. For fiddle. All styles, fiddle tunes. Level: Multiple Levels. Book. Solos. Size 8.75x11.75. 268 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

Edited by David Brody. For violin. Format: fake book. With lead melody, chord names, instructional text and performance notes. Folk, americana and british. 302 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Oak Publications.

compiled by Dr. Ed Whitcomb. For Fiddle. songbook. Canadian. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 224 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Violin solo

SKU: GH.GE-11358

For Solo Violin. Composed by Benjamin Staern. Duration 9 minutes. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 11358. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-11358).

ISBN 979-0-070-11358-8. A4 inches.

Work comment by the composer:
The lonely one was composed during May and June of the year 2000. It was written for Annika Gustafsson, to whom it is also dedicated. It was world-premiered on December 1 the same year in Caroli Church in Malmo. After that I had composed The Threat of War that was a dramatic and massive work for orchestra, I wanted to focus on melodic as well as harmonic and rhyhtmical processes combined with a inner dramatic content. In this case the solo violin works as a narrator where the piece itself is like a monologue without words.
In the score there are imprinted expressions like racontare (tellingly), piacevole (pleasingly) och sospirare(sighing).
The lonely one is divided in three sections.
1. Doloroso (Painful) - the violin plays almost imperceptly sighing glissandi that forms the basic material of the work. Its character is constantly searching. It leads up to the section Risoluto (Resolute) that has a very determined and edgy expression.
2. Misterioso (Mysteriously) - the materials from the previous section are now further developed. It builds up and breaks down during the course of the journey. Eventually it reaches a climax on a high d.
3. Calmando e espressivo (Calmingly and expressive) - From the high d it is stepping down to a recapture on material from the first part slightly changed and moody character. It dies out slowly with the lonely notes.

Benjamin Staern

by Martin Hayes; transcribed by Allan MacDonald. For fiddle. Green Linnett. Celtic/Irish, Celtic. Level: Intermediate. Book. Transcribed solos. Size 8.75x11.75. 48 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

By Eta Cohen. For Violin. Sheet Music. 32 pages. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.