JAVS Spring 2022

Example 5: Walton, Viola Concerto, I. Andante comodo, mm. 26–28.

For the passage in Example 5, Walton employs more separate bows than Riddle, maybe hinting at the dance band saxophone that often seems to be hovering in the background in this work. Riddle also adds slurs to a passage of driving semiquavers, arguably dampening its vigor and sense of momentum, as seen in Example 6.

The syncopated slurring that Riddle added also reappears in the scherzo (Example 7). Additionally, Riddle removes Walton’s four-note slurs in mm. 255–6 of this movement even though they would seem to make the arrival of the separate semiquavers at m. 257 more impactful.

Example 6: Walton, Viola Concerto, I. Andante comodo, mm. 61–8.

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Journal of the American Viola Society / Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 2022