By Dana Freeman. For Violin. Book; DVD; Method/Instruction; String - Violin Meth...(+)
By Dana Freeman. For
Violin. Book; DVD;
Method/Instruction;
String - Violin Method or
Collection. The Ultimate
Beginner Series.
Beginner. 40 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
Chamber Music Violin SKU: PR.114418750 Composed by Michael Hersch. Sws. P...(+)
Chamber Music Violin
SKU: PR.114418750
Composed by Michael
Hersch. Sws. Performance
Score. 8 pages. Duration
11 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41875. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114418750).
ISBN
9781491129524. UPC:
680160655489. 9 x 12
inches.
The
seven-movement in the
snowy margins might be
considered a sort of
atomic suite, as each
movement is succinct, yet
a microcosmic powerhouse
inspired by “The
Comet,” by Polish
writer and Holocaust
victim Bruno Schulz.
Hersch’s intensity is
expressed through
dramatically captivating
violin gestures, pushing
the boundaries of
texture, technique, and
emotion. Michael
Hersch’s in the snowy
margins was written in
2010. Like much of his
work, it is grounded in
literature and art. The
title is drawn from a
short story, The Comet by
Polish writer, poet, and
artist, Bruno Schulz
(1892-1942). This forms
the last of his
collection The Street of
Crocodiles, published in
1934. Schulz was shot by
a Nazi officer in
1942.Both the title of
Hersch’s work, and the
‘motto’ found on the
composer’s manuscript
(‘Thus far and no
further. But what has
become of the end of the
world…’) are to be
found in The Comet.
It’s interesting that
in in the snowy margins,
unlike his earlier
Fourteen Pieces which
were inspired by the
poetry of Primo Levi,
Hersch chose to not title
each individual movement
with a quote. However his
choices of text are
applied, there is a clear
quality of distillation.
In every case, the texts
which the composer has
chosen to eschew lie
beneath the music, akin
to the greater mass of an
iceberg, submerged, but
imminent.Hersch also has
very particular taste in
visual art, and there
seems to be common ground
between the intensely
expressionist drawing of
Schulz, and those of
Michael Mazur, which
inspired his string
quartet Images from a
Closed Ward. The
parallels between these
artists reflect common
traits shared between
these two pieces, which
provide a window on how
the music should be
approached, expressively
and technically. I would
argue, that from a
violinist’s point of
view, this pertains
directly to how bow and
left hand should approach
the string: the febrile
vibrancy of both Mazur
and Schulz’s pencil and
charcoal strokes, perhaps
what T.S. Eliot called
the ‘circulation of the
lymph’, in every
gesture, speaks to the
intense experience,
physically and
emotionally, of playing
(and hearing) this music.
There is an intense sense
of ‘truth to
materials’ at every
moment, the sense that
every note sings on the
edge of, or even beyond,
total collapse.— Peter
Sheppard-Skaerved.
By Stacy Phillips. For Violin(S). Folk, Celtic. Sheet Music. 52 pages. Published...(+)
By Stacy Phillips. For
Violin(S). Folk, Celtic.
Sheet Music. 52 pages.
Published by Music Sales.
Music for 50 fiddle tunes
from Ireland, England,
Scotland, and Wales. Plus
tips on authentic
techniques,
interpretation, and a
discography.
Violin SKU: HL.49047398 Solo Violin. Composed by Dominique Le Gend...(+)
Violin
SKU:
HL.49047398
Solo
Violin. Composed by
Dominique Le Gendre.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 8 pages.
Duration 300 seconds.
Schott Music #ED14165.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49047398).
ISBN
9798350127898. UPC:
842819121244.
9.0x12.0x0.061
inches.
This work
for solo violin was
commissioned by American
Violinist Wendy Case for
her CD of works for solo
violin by living
composers titled The
Tiger and The Clover
released in February 2022
by the label Blue
Griffin. Just as Wendy
proposed this new work, I
heard the news that the
Polish poet Adam
Zagajewski who I had met
through mutual friends,
had died. I had long
admired his essays that
thoughtfully and with
grace and ease, merged
the past with the present
in the way that only a
poet can, lifting the
reader onto a plain of
images, thoughts and
words that conjure
seamless journeys through
time, space and the
imagination. His essays
often refer to the music
of Bach and I found
myself writing this piece
inhabited by the physical
pleasure of playing
Bach's suites for Lute
transposed for the
guitar. The piece
revolves around a simple
repetitive semiquaver
motif playing with the
Aeolian mode starting on
G. The motif ascends and
descends playing with and
against the low G string
to extend itself away
from the home mode, then
returning and gradually
extending into quavers to
reach the key of E major
while hinting at A minor.
The repetitive nature of
the piece invites the
player to explore
variations in sound
quality and dynamics and
to enjoy the effect of
the notes playing against
each other as they rise
and fall away but always
maintain a constant tempo
and rhythm.
18 concert pieces for beginner. By Edward Huws Jones. (Violin). Boosey and Hawk...(+)
18 concert pieces for
beginner. By Edward Huws
Jones. (Violin). Boosey
and Hawkes Chamber Music.
Size 8.25x11.75 inches. 8
pages. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes.
Violin solo SKU: GH.GE-11358 For Solo Violin. Composed by Benjamin...(+)
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.
Composed by Lluis Gomez. Saddle-stitched. Bluegrass. Book and online audio. ...(+)
Composed by Lluis Gomez.
Saddle-stitched.
Bluegrass.
Book and online audio. 52
pages. Mel Bay
Publications,
Inc #30619M. Published by
Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
by Leon J. Grizzard. For fiddle. theory & harmony. Fiddle Tunes. Level: Beginnin...(+)
by Leon J. Grizzard. For
fiddle. theory & harmony.
Fiddle Tunes. Level:
Beginning. Book. Size
9x11.75. 120 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc.
by Stacy Phillips. For fiddle. All styles, fiddle tunes. Level: Multiple Levels....(+)
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.
By Stacy Phillips. For Fiddle. Solos. Fiddle Tunes. Level: Beginning-Intermediat...(+)
By Stacy Phillips. For
Fiddle. Solos. Fiddle
Tunes. Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 64
pages. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc.
Ensemble; Violin (Score) SKU: HL.50600895 For Violin Solo and Ensemble...(+)
Ensemble; Violin (Score)
SKU: HL.50600895
For Violin Solo and
Ensemble. Composed by
Bella, Má, and
té. Contemporary
Music. EMB. Classical.
Softcover. 44 pages.
Duration ca 10'. Editio
Musica Budapest #Z14924.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.50600895).
ISBN
9790080149249.
12.25x9.25x0.405 inches.
Mate Bella.
Trance
means an altered state of
mind in which a person
becomes capable of
communicating with
spirits by the means of a
ritual. Echo like sounds
have a significant role
in the piece, they were
achieved by aleatoric as
well as metric materials.
Our prehistoric ancestors
experienced echo as a
side effect of rituals
they performed, basically
they heard the echo of
their own voices but they
believed these sounds
came from their
ancestors. As 2013 was
the 90th anniversary of
Gyorgy Ligeti's birth, my
piece pays respect to his
musical heritage. In this
regard the piece
references Ligeti's
artistic aesthetics and
in some cases uses direct
musical quotations.(Mate
Bella, 2013)The work won
first prize at the 2013
New Hungarian Music Forum
In memoriam Gyorgy Ligeti
composer's competition in
chamber music category.
It was premiered by
Katalin Kokas and the
Hungarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra conducted by
Gergely Vajda on 25
September 2013 in
Budapest.
Violin SKU: ST.Y237 Composed by Morgan Hayes. String music. 3 minutes. Pa...(+)
Violin
SKU:
ST.Y237
Composed by
Morgan Hayes. String
music. 3 minutes. Part.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y237. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y237).
ISBN
9790220221835.
1st
perf: Darragh Morgan, The
Picture Gallery, Royal
Holloway College,
University of London, 15
November 2006
Programme
Note Lucky's
Speech was composed at
the request of the
violinist Darragh Morgan,
for the launch of his
recital CD Opera on the
NMC label in June 2006.
The title refers to a
pivotal moment in Samuel
Beckett's play Waiting
for Godot, when the
hitherto silent character
Lucky suddenly pours
forth a torrential stream
of gibberish.
This idea also suggested
the cadenza of my Violin
Concerto, composed in the
same year, and it is
reflected in both cases
by an almost breathless
musical activity
punctuated by pizzicato
commentaries. I should
like to thank Darragh
Morgan for his invaluable
advice in the preparation
of the score.