Keane Southard
Sonata No. 1 for
Violin and Piano
(2010) (Duration: c. 10 mins.)
Program notes: My Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano was begun in August of 2010 and completed in November of the same year. Since writing a short duo for violin and piano while I was in high school (my first work I'd written that was not for solo piano and performable by myself), I have wanted to write again for this instrumentation. This summer I had been listening to works such as the Ives Violin Sonatas (which I think are absolute masterpieces), the Bolcom Violin Sonatas, the Stravinsky Duo Concertante, and the Ravel Violin and Piano Sonata and Tzigane. Just listening to these great works compelled me to start jotting down some ideas for a violin and piano piece which suddenly began to take shape into a fully formed sonata. One of these ideas actually came straight from a recorded piano improvisation I made the year before. What finally resulted is a single 10 minute movement in arch form with a good bit of jazz and blues in it. Keane Southard 2010
Performance instructions:
1. Unless otherwise indicated, the damper pedal should be used discreetly to allow for maximum clarity. 2. In general, harmonics are notated by either a diamond notehead (â—Š) which indicates the pitch where the finger should be placed to produce the harmonic, or by a small circle over the note intended to sound as a harmonic. For natural harmonics, both methods are used depending on context. If several different natural harmonics are used in succession, where to produce the pitch is given by the diamond notehead in order to show the easiest way to transition from harmonic to harmonic. In addition, the note intended to sound is given above the diamond notehead in parenthesis. Otherwise, natural harmonics are indicated with just the pitch to be sounded while the performer chooses how to produce the pitch. All artificial harmonics are designated with the stopped pitch as a regular notehead and the node to be touched a perfect fourth above the note with a diamond notehead. The note produced should be two octaves above the stopped pitch and is NOT notated in the score.
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
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