Chamber Music Piano, Viola SKU: PR.114419750 Composed by Martin Amlin. Sw...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
Viola
SKU:
PR.114419750
Composed
by Martin Amlin. Sws. Set
of Score and Parts. 12+4
pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41975.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419750).
ISBN
9781491132296. UPC:
680160681655. 9 x 12
inches.
VERMONT
HARMONY is a 5-minute,
sonically sensual wild
ride (marked Vigorous and
driven in the score) with
unrelenting perpetual
motion through unstable
changing meters. Martin
Amlin continues to enrich
the viola repertory with
this new work for
Michelle LaCourse, who
has recorded many of
Amlin’s works for
MSR Classics.
Viola, piano SKU: FG.55011-906-2 Composed by Harri Wessman. Classical, co...(+)
Viola, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-906-2
Composed by Harri
Wessman. Classical,
contemporary. Score and
part. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-906-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-906-2).
ISBN
9790550119062.
Harr
i Wessman's Summer
Variations for viola and
piano (1998) exploites
the rich and romantic
sound of the viola and
enjoys the many shades of
summer days. It is
dedicated to violist Yuri
Gandelsman, who premiered
the suite with Risto
Lauriala 15th June
1998.
Duration: c.
11'
Movements:
1. Summer theme 2.
What is this? 3.
Pizzicato 4. Con
sordino 5. Stile
concitato ostinato 6.
Tango 7.
Finale
Harri
Wessman (b. 1949) is
interested in all aspects
of music that may be
expressive, without in
any way ignoring the
possibilities of melody.
He himself describes his
harmonic method as a kind
of contrapuntally treated
jazz harmony. Wessman is
particularly preoccupied
with the ability of music
to express emotions, an
interest which has led
him to study the
so-called doctrine of the
affections and the
musical rhetoric of the
baroque era. His Eine
kleine Figurenlehre for
wind quartet and piano is
a playful application of
a set of baroque musical
figures.
His
output is dominated by
chamber and vocal music
as well as a number of
concertos for various
instruments such as the
Concerto for Trumpet and
Orchestra and the
Serenade for Piano and
String Orchestra. During
recent years pedagogic
music has become a more
and more central area in
his output with an
emphasis on creating
repertoire for budding
musicians, from beginners
to young professionals.
He has even tailored some
solo and chamber works
for young musicians that
he personally knows: e.g.
Five Trombone Pieces for
Minna Kajander (1992),
Five Horn Pieces for
Jenni Kuronen (1993),
Five Piano Etudes for
Tiina Karakorpi, Five
Trumpet Pieces for
Alevtina Parland and Five
Double Bass Pieces for
Amanda Thieme. Other
chamber and solo pieces
include Pan and the Nymph
Pitys (1979) for flute
and guitar, Three
Caprices for Konstantin
Weitz (1994) for solo
violin and Capriccio for
wind ensemble (1989).
Viola and Piano SKU: IS.VAP4359EM Composed by August Baeyens. Strings - V...(+)
Viola and Piano
SKU:
IS.VAP4359EM
Composed
by August Baeyens.
Strings - Viola.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #VAP4359EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.VAP4359EM).
ISBN
9790365043590.
Augu
st Louis Baeyens received
his musical training at
the Royal Flemish Music
Conservatory in Antwerp,
studying solfège,
viola, and harmony. As a
composer, Baeyens
developed chiefly through
the study of composers
such as Debussy, Wagner
and Strauss; this
interest gave him the
reputation of a
revolutionary within the
confines of the very
traditionalist
conservatory. It makes
sense that the first
concerto he wrote for a
solo instrument was his
Concerto for Viola
(Concerto voor altviool)
in 1956. A recipient of
the first prize award for
viola while in
conservatory, he
performed as a violist in
orchestras throughout
Flanders. The concerto is
in three movements:
Moderato, Larghetto
espressivo, and
Allegro.
Viola and Piano SKU: BT.YE0009 For Violone. Composed by Giovannino...(+)
Viola and Piano
SKU:
BT.YE0009
For
Violone. Composed by
Giovannino. Classical.
Book Only. Yorke Edition
#YE0009. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0009).
Very little is
known about the two
sonatas which appear here
in their original keys.
They were placed in the
library of the Music
School in Oxford at the
end of the seventeenth
century in a form
convenient for playing
(i.e.unbound). The
library was catalogued by
Hake between 1850 and
1855 and the sonatas were
eventually bound in 1855
with other instrumental
and vocal manuscripts of
the same period, some of
which are dated
1698.
The
sonatasare both inscribed
on the title page Sonata
Violone Solo. Col Basso
per l'Organo, o Cembalo.
A third sonata bears the
words Sonata Violino e
Violoncino â?¦ di
Giovannino del Violone.
Giovannino (=Little, or
Young John)musthave been
a performer, and although
the third sonata has been
copied by a different
hand, it is conceivable
that Giovannino is a
connecting link between
the three. He cannot,
however, be assumed to be
theirauthor.
The
Violone was a
six-stringed instrument
with frets, and there is
evidence to suggest that
the Contrabasso of the
same period was similar
but probably a little
larger; the Violoncino
(=Little Violone,
orVioloncello) must have
been smaller. The word
'Violone' was also used
as a collective term
embracing all members of
the Viol family, which
means that the sonatas
might well have been
written for a tenor or a
bass Viol, and
notnecessarily a Violone
as such. Indeed, when
they are played on a
Violone, or Double Bass
the continuo bass line
must be played at a lower
pitch than the solo
instrument, to prevent
inversion of the intended
harmony. (The use ofa
Violone/Double Bass
continuo or 16' organ
tone would overcome this
problem.)
The
editor has added no
ornaments or
embellishments to the
solo part as it appears
in the original
manuscript. It is open to
debate whether aViolone
player, owing to the very
nature of his instrument,
would have used any but
the simplest melodic
decorations.
Nevertheless, the
performer should acquaint
himself thoroughly with
those seventeenth century
traditions thatare known
today (see Dart.