Sonata for Violin and Piano
Violin and Piano
by James Macmillan
Violin Solo - Sheet Music

Item Number: 21554122
4.7 out of 5 Customer Rating
Price reduced from $60.00 to $39.60
In Stock
  • Ships in 24 hours

Taxes/VAT calculated at checkout.

Share Share
Instruments
Violin Solo
Piano Accompaniment
Genres
Classical
Composers
James Macmillan
Publishers
Bote & Bock
Series
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music
Formats
Collection / Songbook
Item Types
Physical
Musical Forms
Sonata
Usages
School and Community
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (violin/piano)

SKU: HL.48024839

Violin and Piano. Composed by James Macmillan. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 46 pages. Bote & Bock #M060136221. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024839).

ISBN 9781784545352. UPC: 840126908794. 9.0x12.0x0.178 inches.

Subtitled Before the Tryst, this sonata is in one sense a 'prequel' to the similarly scored miniature, After the Tryst (1988). The composer explains that these and other works with 'Tryst' in the title were inspired by a poem of the same name by the Scottish writer William Soutar (1898-1943). "I set it initially as a song for my folk group and then 'classicised' it as Scots Song. It is a love poem in the Scots language, and I set it to sound like an old Scots folk song." The Sonata for Violin and Piano was commissioned by Carnegie Hall, New York, and first performed by its dedicatee, Simone Lamsma, with Robert Kulek. The work is composed in a single, 15-minute span with contrasting sections. Once again, the music refers to some of the Scots Song materials, and the ghost of folk song can be detected at various points throughout.