Showing posts with label music for viola d'amore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music for viola d'amore. Show all posts
Unbeschwerte Amore for two violas d'amore
You can find the score and parts for this piece (written for the Duo Aliquot) on this page of the IMSLP.
Two Little Night Pieces for Three Violas d'amore
I. The Moon is a Cracked Dinner Plate
II. Toys in the Attic
You can listen to it here, and find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
Weights and Measures: Scale Melodies for Recorder (and other instruments)
I also made transcriptions of the recorder version for viola and for bass clef instruments of every stripe (the lowest pitch is F).
The music for this set of scale pieces is available on this page of the IMSLP.
May 2021 UPDATE: I have set these pieces as duets (recorder and violin)! You can find them through the IMSLP link, or through this post.
2023 UPDATE
Any and all of the versions work perfectly well on the viola d'amore!
Birthday Piece No. 12 for Viola d'amore and Piano
April 17, 2020
This is the last in a set of twelve "Birthday Pieces" for viola d'amore and piano. I began this set with a fifty-measure-long piece when I turned fifty, and wrote a new "Birthday Piece" each April, adding one measure per year. This year I decided to celebrate the end of the set (along with my sixty-first birthday) by adding eleven more measures to the final piece. You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP, and you can listen to a computer-generated recording here.
Click here to see all twelve, and here for a PDF. They are all available for free (but they do all require work to learn).
And you can find a transcription for violin and piano on the same page of the IMSLP, and listen to it here.
Birthday Piece No. 9 for Viola d'amore and Piano
March 30, 2017
When I turned 50 I decided to add to the viola d'amore literature by writing a new piece for viola d'amore and piano every year. My 58th birthday is coming up at the end of April, so this year's piece has 58 measures.
You can find the music and a computer-generated recording on this page of the IMSLP.
Birthday Piece No. 8 for Viola d'amore and Piano
This one contains a 2-part canon, and because I am almost 57 and can do what I want (I'll be 57 on April 30), it has 43 measures rather than the 57 that would be expected in the sequence of birthday pieces. You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
Birthday Piece No. 7 for Viola d'amore and Piano
[April 28, 2015]
This 56-measure piece marks my 56th birthday. It is part of a series I began when I turned 50. You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
Birthday Piece No. 6 for Viola d'amore and Piano
Musings on Melodies from Der Fluyten Lust-hof
This version is for viola d'amore and guitar:
and this version is for violin, viola, and guitar (or any two melody instruments)
You can find the music for both versions, including a treble part for the viola part of the version for trio, on this page of the IMSLP.
Birthday Piece No. 5 for Viola d'amore and Piano
April 7, 2013
You can find the a PDF of the music and a computer-generated recording here.
New Year's Greeting for Viola d'amore (or Viola) and Guitar
Happy New Year for 2013! You can find the score and parts for this New Year's Greeting on this page of the IMSLP.
Birthday Piece No. 4 for Viola d'amore and Piano
April 8, 2012
These are the first two pages of my annual Birthday Piece for viola d'amore and piano. This year's piece has 53 measures. You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP and listen to it here. I look forward to the chance, some day, to hear this piece and my other viola d'amore music played by a better viola d'amore player than the one I have in house (which would be me).
Birthday Piece No. 3 for Viola d'amore and Piano
April 30 2011
You can download the music on this page of the ISMLP, and listen to a recording of it there too.
Four Pieces from Doktor Faustus for Viola d'amore and Piano
Karlīna Īvāne put a performance on YouTube. If you know the Thomas Mann novel, you should recognize the references. If you haven't read the novel, I recommend reading it!
The first movement is based (loosely) on the song "Oh How Lovely is the Evening," which is discussed at length as one of the pieces that Leverkuhn (the main character) and the narrator sang together. The second movement is based on the Hetaere esmeralda row and incorporates the Tristan chord. The third movement represents the encounter with whatever it is that the narrator (who is a viola d'amore player), says that Leverkuhn encounters, be it a daemon or a hallucination of one, and the last movement is a "portrait" the little boy called Echo.
Here's a PDF file of the score (in the IMSLP)
2021 UPDATE: There is a discussion of this piece in Anna Maria Olivari's (open source) scholarly study Doktor Faustus (ver-)stimmen, which you can read about access through this link.
Sonata for Viola or Viola d'amore and Piano
February 2003, revised for viola d'amore in June 2010
You can listen to a computer-generated recording of the first movement here. Here's the second movement, and here's the third movement.
The music is available from Subito.
Birthday Piece No. 2 for Viola d'amore and Piano
Peace for the New Year
December 29, 2009
You can listen and download a PDF of the music on this page of the IMSLP.
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