Sheet Music: Score & Part(s)
Pastorale : for violin and piano / John Spence
by John Spence (2011)
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- Instrumentation: Violin, piano.
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Audio Sample
Performance by Scott Taggart, John Spence from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 83.
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The Pastorale is a piece for the festive season. It is about reflecting on all the happenings of the year. It opens with a calm ground bass on the piano over which the violin has a gentle melody. It returns to this melody after two developmental episodes. Pastorales are traditionally in a 6/8 or 12/8 metre like the famous Corelli Pastorale with gentle moving thirds over a ground bass. I have maintained the sense of a ground bass with the left hand chords in the piano part and the moving triads in the right hand. However I have chosen a 3/4 metre so that I can encourage the performers to use the expressive power of the quaver subdivision. To compensate this I have chosen a tempo of 120bpm so that the left hand chords of the piano still create a quasi duple 6/8 lilt.
Published by: Wirripang [979 0 720126 05 0] — 1 score 9p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 1 part
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 3 mins, 40 sec.
Includes program note and biography on composer.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979 0 720126 05 0
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