| Bridgetower Fantasy for Violin and Piano Violon et Piano Schott
Violin and piano SKU: HL.49045822 For violin and piano. Composed b...(+)
Violin and piano SKU:
HL.49045822 For
violin and piano.
Composed by Vijay Iyer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Solo. Softcover.
Composed 2015. 72 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED30264. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045822). ISBN
9781540024749. UPC:
888680737764.
9.25x12.0x0.29
inches. The
Kreutzer Sonata was
originally dedicated not
to Rudolphe Kreutzer (who
never performed it) but
to George Bridgetower, a
famed 18th-century
Afro-European concert
violinist. In an early
draft, Beethoven jokingly
labeled the piece in
starkly racialized terms:
Sonata Mulattica composed
for the mulatto
Brischdauer, big wild
mulatto
composer.Beethoven and
Bridgetower performed the
premiere, which was by
all accounts a success,
and even featuring some
improvised embellishment
by the violinist. While
celebrating afterwards,
the two quarreled about
what Beethoven construed
as Bridgetower's insult
of a female acquaintance;
the composer then revoked
the original dedication,
adding Kreutzer's name
instead. The work gained
acclaim, while
Bridgetower's career
languished; he eventually
died in
poverty.Bridgetower has
been the subject of
considerable research and
speculation, most notably
in poet Rita Dove's book,
Sonata Mulattica. From
our 21st-century vantage,
considering Bridgetower's
unique circumstance, we
can only see him as an
ambiguous figure who, in
embodying difference,
provoked inspiration,
fantasy, desire, anger
and, finally, erasure.My
piece is a collection of
imaginings about George
Bridgetower. It is not
programmatic, but it
takes on an episodic
character, assembled from
contrasting fragments.
The dance rhythms,
recurring figures and
gestural contours are
intended to feature the
embodied expertise and
expressivity of the
performers, who at times
must access liminal
sounds and execute
complex synchronies. I am
grateful to Jenny Koh and
Shai Wosner for involving
me in their beautiful,
virtuosic
music-making. $70.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Excursions Violon et Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.414411630 Composed by Shulamit...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin SKU:
PR.414411630 Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
28+28+20+24+20+24 pages.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#414-41163. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.414411630). ISBN
9781491114551. UPC:
680160089956. 9.5 x 13
inches. EXCURSIONS
is a one-movement work
exploring two
“characters.â€
A rhapsodic, descending
passage is introduced by
the cello, followed by
a static,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello.
Their individual
developments are
separated by a slow,
contrasting middle
section. The composer has
written: “This is
analogous to situations
in life: we stand by a
crossroad, choosing one
option and forfeiting the
other. But in art, the
realm of the imagination,
we can perhaps afford to
pursue more than one
route to its ultimate
destination… or can
we? It is symbolic that
in this work both roads
eventually lead to the
same
place.â€. Excursi
ons for violin, cello and
piano, is a one-movement
work of tripartite
structure in which
materials explored in the
first of three large
sections are brought back
in the last section.Â
The traditional
statement-contrast-restat
ement form, which is
readily suggested by such
a description, is,
however, not at all in
the mold in which the
work is cast. Rather,
my aim was to subject the
essential materials of
the piece (two
“charactersâ€
–the rhapsodic,
descending passage played
by the cello in the very
opening and, later, a
static, slow moving,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello) to
two entirely different
developments separated by
a slow, contrasting
middle section. This
is analogous to an
exploration of the
ramifications that two
divergent choices made by
the same person might
lead to. In life, as
we stand by a crossroad,
choosing one option
usually means having to
forfeit the other.Â
But in art, the realm of
the imagination, we can
perhaps afford to pursue
more than one route to
its ultimate
destination…or can
we? It is, I believe,
symbolic that in this
work both roads
eventually lead to the
same place: in composing
Excursions, it seemed
absolutely inescapable
that at the end the slow,
contrasting middle
sections – both
more resigned and
peaceful than the
battling spirits of the
outer parts –
should return briefly to
end the work. The
piano trio combination
(once highly favored, but
to this composer still as
challenging today) is
approached here as a
collaborative effort of
three equal soloists
– partners. Of
the available pairings,
the two strings find
themselves occasionally
approached as a team
pitted against the
piano. The
cello-piano combination
is also not uncommon
here, and there is an
extended violin cadenza
toward the end of the
piece. The writing
for the three instruments
is closely and at times
interlinked, but the
players are all
instructed to play from
scores. Excursions was
first performed at
Brandeis University in
1982. $80.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Chinese Folk Dance Suite Violon et Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: PR.114419280 Composed by Chen Yi. Arrang...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano SKU:
PR.114419280 Composed
by Chen Yi. Arranged by
Wong Tak Chiu.
Performance Score. 32+12
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41928.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419280). ISBN
9781491132357. UPC:
680160676125. Inspi
red by Chinese tradition,
this concerto-like dance
suite includes: 1. Lion
Dance, 2. YangKo, and 3.
Muqam. Each movement
draws from melodies and
rhythms characteristic of
various regions of China
many centuries ago.
CHINESE FOLK DANCE SUITE
is available for violin
with full orchestra, or
as a recital work with
piano. Supported by a
major commissioning award
from the Serge
Koussevitzky Music
Foundation in the Library
of Congress, Chinese Folk
Dance Suite is written
for solo violin and
orchestra; it was
premiered by The
Women’s
Philharmonic with violin
soloist Terrie Baune,
conducted by Apo Hsu, on
March 10, 2001, at Yerba
Buena Center For the Arts
Theater in San
Francisco.Inspired by
various Chinese
traditional folk dances,
the suite has three
movements:I. Lion Dance.
Traditionally, people
dance with richly
decorated hand-made
lions, accompanied by
percussion ensemble, to
celebrate happy occasions
and major festivals
throughout the country.
In this composition, I
use Chinese drum and
other percussion
instruments in the
background, to form a
dynamic and rhythmic
texture responding to the
solo part, which imitates
the tunes played on the
suona (traditional
Chinese trumpet). The
pitch materials came from
the traditional Guangdong
tune “Dragon Boat
Racing,†and the
Chaozhou tune “Lion
Playing Ball.â€II.
YangKo. Originating in
northern China, this is a
major folk dance form in
mass performance
popularized in the
country. In YangKo
performance, people play
rhythmic patterns on the
drums hung around their
waists while singing and
dancing. In the second
movement, I imagined a
warm scene of YangKo
dancing in distance. The
solo violin plays a sweet
and gracious melodic line
while all members of the
orchestra sing
non-pitched syllables in
different layers as the
soft background, to
imitate the percussion
sound which produces the
ever-going pulse.III.
Muqam. This large-scale
music and dance form,
from the Uygur
nationality in Xinjiang
province, originated in
the 15th century. My
third movement use a 7/8
meter and the melodic
style of Muqam music. The
fiery dancing gesture
culminates in the
sustained climax section
at the end of the work,
after a colorful violin
cadenza in both
improvisational singing
style and polyphonic
writing with woven
lines. $26.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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