JAVS Summer 2021

Example 3. Stephen Dodgson, Echoes of Autumn , mm. 1–7. Copyright © Doberman and Productions d’Oz. Used with permission.

Erik Marchelie, Sonate (Saint-Romuald, QC: Les Productions d’Oz, 2007).

Ferdinand Rebay, Kleine Moderne Tanz-Suite (Madrid: Ediciones Eudora, 2013). This is a collection of 5 dances including a

Sonate has four movements and the whole piece is melodic and jazzy. A section of high register unison in the final movement is challenging for both instruments, but the piece is generally accessible for the performer and audience. The second movement presents intonation challenges with its use of extended harmonies in which the viola often plays the third or ninth of the chord.

march, tango, onestep, Boston, and shimmy. All the dances are short and cute, but slightly cheesy.

Ferdinand Rebay, Sonata in D minor (Madrid: Ediciones Eudora, 2015). Rebay’s Sonata is an earlier work in the repertoire and is a fine example of neo-classical/romantic writing for duo. Fairly typical parts for both instruments. Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, One stops searching, one grows silent (Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik, 2009) This single-movement work focuses on gesture and conversation between the two instruments. It is similar to declaimed poetry, but with music. It is powerful and challenges the performer to wholeheartedly commit to every gesture and musical idea in order to connect with the audience.

Edward McGuire, Fast Peace III (New Port, South Wales: Cadenza Music, 1982).

A single-movement work with a perpetual motion and pseudo-minimalist character. Requires a high level of rhythmic accuracy and precision in metered sections, and coordination in the unmetered middle section.

Ronald Pearl, The Places We Left Behind (http://www. ronaldmpearl.com/, 2011).

This piece is a lovely single-movement work available for free. It is a good piece for a duo to work on balance and blend. The guitar part contains quite a bit of cross-string sixteenth note passages.

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