Johanson (for violin)
$5.00
Johansen was commissioned by the Johansen International Competition for their 2018 competition. It is designed as a compact, attractive work testing a younger string player’s ability to handle numerous technical and interpretative issues. Please specify if you want the violin, viola, or cello version.
Description
Johansen is aptly named as it was commissioned by the Johansen International Competition for their 2018 competition. It is designed as a compact, attractive work testing a younger string player’s ability to handle numerous technical and interpretative issues. There are fast passages for fingering and bowing; long melodic lines for color, control, and phrasing; string crossings, multiple stops, and harmonics; loud, aggressive, funky parts and soft ethereal passages. The one movement piece is cast in an ABA1form: fast-slow-fast. The opening is focused on a funky, rhythmic idea alternating with fast passagework. The middle gentle section features three distinct lyrical themes. The final portion begins with a new quietly intense theme full of double stops and then flows into a modified recapitulation of the work’s opening. Johansen was designed to be performed on violin, viola, or cello, as was required for the Johansen Competition. Please make sure to specify if you want the violin, viola, or cello version. For more info about this work click here.
Score is available as a downloadable PDF file.
