Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: PR.144405810 Ballad for Violin and Pi...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano
SKU:
PR.144405810
Ballad for Violin and
Piano. Composed by
Jay Reise. Premiered by
Maria Bachmann and Jon
Klibonoff in
Philadelphia.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 10-Sep. 24+8
pages. Duration 17
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40581.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.144405810).
ISBN
9781491101407. UPC:
680160614127.
In
this ballad, Reise
ponders the Red Sea
Swallow, of which only
one was ever found (and
dead, at that). The
Flight of the Red Sea
Swallow imagines the
final flight of what may
have been the last of its
kind. Originally written
for violin and piano, and
premiered by Maria
Bachmann, Flight has also
been transcribed for
flute and piano. For
advanced performers.
Duration: 17'.
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.17150420 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Da...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.17150420
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Daniel
Bernard Roumain. Strings,
Violin. Score & Parts.
Composed 2007. Duration
4'. Subito Music
Corporation #17150420.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.17150420).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 4' Composed:
2007 Published by:
DredLin Music
Publishing.
Timepiece Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91740200 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Pa...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91740200
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Paul Moravec.
Strings, Violin. Score &
Parts. Composed 1984.
Duration 9'. Subito Music
Corporation #91740200.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.91740200).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 9' Composed:
1984 Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.
Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: PR.144405830 Poem for Violin & Piano<...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano
SKU:
PR.144405830
Poem
for Violin & Piano.
Composed by Jay Reise.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2013. 12+4
pages. Duration 6
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40583.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.144405830).
ISBN
9781491101490. UPC:
680160615032.
For
the 25th Havana Festival
of Contemporary Music,
Reise adapted the larger
Flight to create the
shorter Ghost of the Red
Sea Swallow for flute and
piano, premiered by
Christina Jennings and
James Freeman. As with
Flight, Ghost of the Red
Sea Swallow exists in two
versions, for flute and
for violin. Duration:
6'.
Sonata Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91740130 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Pa...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91740130
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Paul Moravec.
Strings, Violin. Score &
Parts. Composed 1992.
Duration 20'. Subito
Music Corporation
#91740130. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.91740130).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 20' Composed:
1992 Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.
Grand Tarantella Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.95010165 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Ju...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.95010165
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Judith Lang
Zaimont. Strings, Violin.
Score & Parts. Composed
1970. Duration 6'. Subito
Music Corporation
#95010165. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.95010165).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 6' Composed:
1970 Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.
Serenade Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91940010 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Th...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91940010
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Thomas
Pasatieri. Strings,
Violin. Score & Parts.
Composed 1994. Duration
9'. Subito Music
Corporation #91940010.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.91940010).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 9' Study Score
for orchestral version:
available for sale
(#91910030) Composed:
1994 Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.
Songs Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91740150 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Pa...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91740150
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Paul Moravec.
Strings, Violin. Score &
Parts. Composed 1983.
Duration 8'. Subito Music
Corporation #91740150.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.91740150).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 8' Composed:
1983 Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91740010 For Violin & Piano. Composed by St...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91740010
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Steven
Mercurio. Strings,
Violin. Study Score.
Composed 1981. Duration
17'. Subito Music
Corporation #91740010.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.91740010).
Duration: 17'
Composed: 1981 Published
by: Subito Music
Publishing.
Aurea Luce Violon et Piano [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
Violin and Piano SKU: BT.MUSM570366552 Composed by Sadie Harrison. Classi...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
BT.MUSM570366552
Composed by Sadie
Harrison. Classical.
Score Only. University of
York Music Press
#MUSM570366552. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570366552).
English.
Aurea
Luce was written at the
request of Madeleine
Mitchell and Geoff Poole
by way ofcelebrating my
50th birthday at a
concert in my home town
of Shaftesbury, Dorset.
The work is based on a
plainsong melody sung as
a hymn for the Feast of
St. Peter s Chair in
Rome, reflecting the
dedication of the church
in which the premiere
took place. I started
writing the work on
International Women s Day
2015 and it was
serendipitous that
thehymn s text is
ascribed very unusually
to a 5th century female
author, Elpis (reputedly
the first wife of the
philosopher Boethius).
The title translates as
..with golden light.. and
in context within the
verse it reads as: Aurea
luce et decore roseo,lux
lucis, omne perfudisti
seculum, decoran caelos
inclito martyrio hac
sacra die, quae dat reis
veniam (The Poissy
Antiphonal, fol. 412v)
(The beauteous light of
Eternity hath ooded with
blissful res this golden
day which crowns the
Prince of the Apostles,
and gives unto the guilty
a free way to heaven).
Duration: c. 9
minutes.
Violin and Piano SKU: AY.VLP3174PM Composed by Carles M. Eroles. Strings ...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
AY.VLP3174PM
Composed
by Carles M. Eroles.
Strings - Violin. Score &
Parts. Duration 9'.
Periferia Publishing
#VLP3174PM. Published by
Periferia Publishing
(AY.VLP3174PM).
ISBN
9790543572980.
The
material introduced by
the piano of the
beginning a solo is the
one that serves of
vertebral axis of the
work, that has nearly the
form of a rondo. This
introduction is based on
isolated, naked notes,
with a constant rythm of
the eighths that create a
big intervalic space
between them. Later on,
that will be used as a
support to an espressive
melody of the violin,
that will take this
material and will expose
it in pizzicato. In this
way will be used as
accompaniment to a very
suggestive and lyric
fragment of the piano
that covers nearly all
the registers of the
instrument. This will
lead to a second section
of the work, of a very
rythmic and intense
character of both
instruments. The third
section, the most
expressive of the work,
it's iniciated with some
chords of the piano that
little by litlle
dissapear and remembers
the introduction. Here,
the violin develops a
melody of big lirism,
supported by the piano
witht he material of the
introduction, but this
time there are non
isolated notes but full
chords that disintegrate
again at the end, taking
up again the idea of a
fragment of the first
section of the piece by
means of the piano. Far
from free instrumental
effects, the work looks
mainly for a direct
communication with the
listener.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin SKU: HL.49045418 For Violin and Piano....(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin
SKU:
HL.49045418
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Joji Yuasa.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. Composed
2007-2011. 40 pages.
Duration 16'. Schott
Music #SJ1181. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045418).
ISBN
9784890664856.
9.0x12.0x0.135
inches.
Four
Imaginary Landscapes from
Basho for violin and
piano was commissioned by
Concert Hall Shizouka.
This work consists of
four pices which can be
performed independently.
Three pieces: 2. Spring
(Petal by petal
fluttering down yellow
mountain roses-, Sound of
the rapids.) 3. Summer
(The summer grass-,
holding still the dreams
of the stalwart
warriors.), and 4. Autumn
(Chrysanthemum scent...,
in Nara Ancient statues
of Momo Kodama (piano) in
Shizouka on March 9th,
2007. 1 Winter (Sound of
oar hitting waves in the
dead of night, Freezing
bowels..., tears.) was
premiered by Keiko
Urushibara (violin) and
Shigeo Neriki (piano) in
Shizouka on January 14th,
2011. Hisako Takahashi
(violin) and Kyoko Sasaki
(piano) performed all of
the pieces on March 13th,
2011.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48025035 Violin and...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025035
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Brett Dean.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1020 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535639.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025035).
ISBN
9783793142607. UPC:
196288020790.
9.0x12.0x0.171
inches.
With Berlin
Music, Brett Dean wrote a
threefold homage: to the
classical duo consisting
of violin and piano; to
the violin virtuoso
Midori, for whom the
piece was written; and to
the city of Berlin, where
he lived between the
mid-1980s and 2000 and
whose rich cultural life
he owes much to his
development as a musician
and composer. The first
four, relatively short
movements of the
five-movement work form a
suite of character
pieces, which is followed
by a longer final
movement. In summary,
this turns out to be the
actual main movement from
which all motifs and
harmonies emerged in a
compositional manner.
This includes tuning down
the G side by a whole
tone - an apparently
small difference, but one
that has a major effect
on the timbre and
resonance of the
instrumentand suddenly
makes previously
impossible interval
sequences playable. In
addition, the violin in
the third movement (a
moto perpetuo in which
Dean bows to Ravel's
violin sonata) has to
play with a practice
damper, while the pianist
changes the instrument
and plays on a standing
piano that is dampened by
a pedal and placed next
to the concert grand
Expressing nervous energy
in tight college
spaces.
Violin & piano (Solo) SKU: OU.9780193451551 Composed by Michael Berkeley....(+)
Violin & piano (Solo)
SKU:
OU.9780193451551
Composed by Michael
Berkeley. Violin & Piano.
16 pages. Duration 6'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193451551. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193451551).
ISBN 9780193451551. 12
x 8 inches.
For
violin and piano The
composer writes:
'Persistent Memory is a
little six minute drama .
. . although the piano
begins as the more
aggressive partner and
triggers the violin into
animation, it is in fact
the piano that finally
provides a note of
resolution, or at least,
partial resolution.'.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48025296 Violin and...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025296
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Elena
Kats-Chernin. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 1800 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202533635.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025296).
UPC:
196288174325.
â€
œBeing Russian born I
have a strong connection
to the ballet scores of
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev
and Stravinsky, and as a
result in theWild Swans,
more than in any other
work of mine, I allowed
myself the freedom to
roam through 200 years of
musical genres, ranging
from Hungarian Operetta
through folk music and
even including the
influences of jazz and
popular music,â€
says Elena Kats-Chernin.
The full-length work,
which premiered in Sydney
in 2003, was written for
choreographer Meryl
Tankard after the two
artists had already
worked together for the
opening ceremony of the
2000 Olympic Games, and
became one of the
composer's greatest
successes. Many excerpts
in various arrangements
have a concert life of
their own today -
including the
world-renowned Eliza
Aria. Arranged by the
composer in 2004 for
violin and piano after
the original orchestral
version, the half-hour
suite comprises ten
characteristic movements:
Green Leaf Prelude, Eliza
Aria, Brothers, Wicked
Witch (piano solo), Magic
Spell Tango, Glow Worms,
Darkness of the Forest,
Eliza and the Prince,
Mute Princess,
Transformation.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48025445 For Violin...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025445
For Violin and
Piano. Composed by
Hans Winterberg. Boosey
and Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 420 seconds.
Boosey and Hawkes
#M202538852. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
(HL.48025445).
ISBN
9783793145820. UPC:
196288216438.
Hans
Winterberg's
extraordinary life was
written in two chapters,
one Czech and one German,
split right down the
middle by the experience
of the Shoah, which
Winterberg, unlike his
colleagues Ullmann,
Krása, Haas and Klein,
miraculously survived. In
1947, the Prague-born
composer moved to Munich,
where he worked for the
Bavarian Broadcasting
Corporation. As a student
of Alexander Zemlinsky
and Alois Hába, he
belongs both to the Czech
tradition following
Janácek and to the
circle of the Second
Viennese School. He saw
himself as a bridge
builder between Western
and Eastern culture. The
circumstances under which
Winterberg was able to
compose during the war
years are still unclear.
Although his “mixed
marriage” initially
saved him from
deportation, he had to
perform forced labour and
was eventually sent to
the Terezin ghetto in
January 1945. The Suite
for Violin and Piano was
composed in 1942, the
year in which both
Winterberg's mother and
his piano professor
Thérèse Wallerstein
were murdered by the
Nazis. Compared to the
violin sonata from 1936,
the Suite is much more
condensed, lasting less
than seven minutes. A
melody dominated by
chromatic turns and
expressionist harmony
lend the work its
melancholy character,
which gives way, however,
to an almost
irrepressible defiance in
the rhythmically
percussive last
movement.
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.28060110 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Je...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.28060110
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Jesse Jones.
Strings, Violin.
Accompanied by piano.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#28060110. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.28060110).
A fun and
playful spinoff of an
incipet of Beethoven, for
violin & piano violin &
piano Duration: 7'
Composed: 2016 Published
by: Distributed
Composer.
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.
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: CF.MXE112 Composed by Paul Lansky...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
CF.MXE112
Composed by
Paul Lansky. Sws. Set of
Score and Parts. 32+8+8
pages. Duration 18
minutes. Carl Fischer
Music #MXE112. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.MXE112).
ISBN
9781491156766. UPC:
680160915309. 9 x 12
inches.
Angles for
Piano Trio plays with a
variety of textures and
timbres that can be
produced on the piano.
Each of the four
movements takes a
different textural or
procedural angle. The
first movement, With
Pluck, uses a lot of
pizzicato in the strings,
with virtually no use of
the pedal in the piano.
The second movement, Take
a Bow, uses extensive
double stops in the
strings. The third
movement, About a Minute
Waltz, is percussive and
rhythmic, and the last
movement, A Sad Song,
contrasts repetitions of
a straightforward lyrical
stanza with rhapsodic
interludes.
Piano; Violin - difficult SKU: HL.49007780 Piano Reduction with Solo P...(+)
Piano; Violin - difficult
SKU: HL.49007780
Piano Reduction with
Solo Part. Composed
by Hans Werner Henze.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Classical. Piano
Reduction with Solo Part.
Composed 1997. 54 pages.
Duration 25'. Schott
Music #ED 8103. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49007780).
ISBN
9790001120630. UPC:
073999295542.
9.0x12.0x0.231
inches.
Three
musical portraits
composed in 1997 and
based on Thomas Mann's
novel 'Dr. Faustus.'
Piano reduction with solo
violin part. Piano
reduction by Olga
Kroupova.
Dialogue Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.32000020 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Ra...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.32000020
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Randall
Shinn. Strings, Violin.
Accompanied by piano.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#32000020. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.32000020).
A short,
intense work for violin
and piano that alternates
between atonal and
dissonant tonal sections.
Violin & Piano Duration:
5' Composed: 2013
Published by: Distributed
Composer.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48024893 Violin and...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48024893
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Bertold
Hummel. Boosey & Hawkes
Chamber Music. Classical.
Softcover. 20 pages.
Duration 360 seconds.
Simrock #M221122551.
Published by Simrock
(HL.48024893).
ISBN
9783923051700. UPC:
840126925098.
As an
educational and recital
piece, Bertold Hummel's
Sonatina Op. 35, composed
in 1969, has accompanied
many a young musician
following his or her own
path. Having sold a
thousand times all over
the world, it is one of
the composer's best-known
works and hasbeen
included in the
repertoire list for the
'Jugend musiziert'
competition by the German
Music Council. The three
movements are
characterized by warmth
and exciting rhythms: in
the powerful Maestoso,
the sonority of the main
theme is contrasted with
a lyrical side theme; the
recapitulation ends with
an impulsive Fugato. The
second movement Elegie
consists of a single
soulful melody over
spherical harmonies of
the piano. As a
highlight, playful ease,
marching rhythms and
dramatic intensifications
alternate in quick
succession in the Finale
vivace, followed by wild
arpeggios that conclude
the piece. Originally
composed for violin,
versions for viola and
violoncello were already
commonly used. To mark
its 50th birthday,
Simrock / Boosey &
Hawkes present the work
in a revised, newly set
edition. Written in the
1990s by the composer
himself and now available
forthe first time, the
versions for alto and
tenor saxophone are
valuable additions to the
repertoire for beginning
instrumentalists.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Score and Solo Part) SKU: HL.49046190 Vio...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Score and Solo
Part)
SKU:
HL.49046190
Violin
and Piano. Composed
by Alexis Weissenberg.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 16 pages.
Duration 840 seconds.
Schott Music #VLB218.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046190).
UPC:
841886033825.
9.0x12.0x0.064
inches.
Alexis
Weissenberg (1929-2012)
numbers among the most
prominent pianists of the
20th Century. That he was
also a composer is less
well known, though he
wrote a whole series of
works, notably for his
own instrument, the piano
(Piano Works, Schott ED
22923). His Romance for
violin and piano may be
considered something of a
rarity. Musical child
prodigy Alexis wrote this
little Romantic piece in
March 1943 in Jerusalem,
where he and his mother
had fled from Sofia
following their
internment as descendants
of Jews. The Romance is a
melancholy 'Song Without
Words', simple and
poignant in effect. This
first edition is based on
the original manuscript.
Editorial changes have
been marked in
brackets.
Violin and piano (V/KL) - difficult SKU: HL.49030434 For violin and pi...(+)
Violin and piano (V/KL) -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49030434
For
violin and piano.
Composed by John Casken.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Composed
1998. 45 pages. Duration
18'. Schott Music #ED
12650. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49030434).
ISBN
9790220119873.
Apre
s un silence was
originally written as a
work for violin and
piano. The piano part was
subsequently orchestrated
in such a way that the
work may be performed
with a chamber orchestra
or with an ensemble of
the same forces using
strings. 'The violin's
opening interval of a
rising sixth is the gem
from which everything is
developed into one
extended movement.' This
will become a regular
presence in the violin
and piano repertoire.
Arranged by Mary-Lloyd Butler. For Violin (or Flute) and Piano. An easy bluesy a...(+)
Arranged by Mary-Lloyd
Butler. For Violin (or
Flute) and Piano. An easy
bluesy arrangement. Piano
score and part. 4 pages.
Duration 02:30. Published
by C.F. Peters.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002390).
UPC:
680160038091.
I
became interested in the
work of Plato through my
friend and collaborator,
the writer and
philosopher Paul
Woodruff. Paul's new
translation, with
Alexander Nehamas, of the
Symposium gave me
insights into ancient
Greek ways of thinking
about Love, Beauty, and
Wisdom -- and managed to
keep the earthy, and
often bawdy side of it
all in full view. But
their new translation of
Plato's later dialogue
Phaedrus went even
further: the beauty of
the speeches is
breathtaking, and the
discourse itself is
enough to keep one awake
at night. Basically the
Great Speech of Socrates
in the Phaedrus dialogue
has to do with the place
of Eros in the world, and
with the conflict in the
soul between fleshly
pleasure and philosophic
discovery. I will not
attempt to encapsulate
this brilliant discourse
in a program note:
suffice it to say that
reading it gave rise to
my two-sided work for
clarinet, violin, and
piano, Phaedrus. The
first movement represents
the Philosophic life, and
is thus subtitled
Apollo's Lyre (Invocation
and Hymn). It begins with
an unaccompanied melody
for the clarinet, which
(after a pair of
harp-like flourishes for
the piano, expands into
an accompanied canon. The
voices in the dialogue
(clarinet and violin)
follow each other by a
prescribed number of
beats, but the music is
totally devoid of any
meter at all. The piano,
representing the lyre,
accompanies this lyric
love-feast with repeated
strummed chords. The
canon has three large
sections, and ends with
violin echoing the
unaccompanied clarinet
invocation as the sound
of the lyre fades. The
second movement, called
Dionysus' Dream-Orgy
(Ritual Dance) presents,
after a brief
introduction, another
kind of unmetered music.
Rather than long lyric
flights of philosophic
song, however, this time
we hear a unison dance of
unbridled energy and
sensual transport. The
piece soon forms itself
into a loose arch form,
with contrasting metered
dance sections divided by
the unison unmetered orgy
tune. Midway through the
movement, Apollo's melody
returns from the first
movement, but it is a
temporary reminiscence.
The orgiastic dance
returns, reaches a
climax, and ends with a
stomping of feet. While
Plato asserts that a
proper balance between
lust and reason is
necessary in all men, he
(naturally) gives the nod
to Philosophy as the
better choice in which to
live. Not so in my music:
the two sides are meant
to coexist and to
complement each other. No
sides are taken. Phaedrus
was commissioned of the
Verdehr Trio by Michigan
State University. It is
dedicated to the Vedehr
Trio with great affection
and admiration.
Chromatic Fantasy Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Seesaw Music Corp
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.50600910 For Violin & Piano. Composed by An...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.50600910
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Andrew Frank.
Strings, Violin.
Accompanied by piano.
Score & Parts. Seesaw
Music Corp #50600910.
Published by Seesaw Music
Corp (SU.50600910).
Violin & Piano
Duration: ' Composed:
2012 Published by: Seesaw
Music.
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.92040270 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Ro...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.92040270
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Roberto
Sierra. Strings, Violin.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#92040270. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.92040270).
Violin, Piano
Duration: 14' Composed:
2010 Published by: Subito
Music Corporation
YouTube:.
Equilibrium Violon et Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
Violin & Piano SKU: SU.91770880 For Violin & Piano. Composed by Pa...(+)
Violin & Piano
SKU:
SU.91770880
For
Violin & Piano.
Composed by Paul Moravec.
Strings, Violin.
Accompanied by piano.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#91770880. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.91770880).
Instrumentation
: Violin & Piano
Duration: 6'30
Composed: 2015
Published by: Subito
Music Publishing.