Devil's Dance

Hi @olivercomposer,

It sounds quite diabolical in the diabolic Eb minor! The violin part should be hard to play too! I love the hemiolas you use around 1 minute.

Thx for sharing!

Henry

Nice, really gives out a devilish style.

Hi @olivercomposer!

I think the key of Eb minor is a particularly difficult key for the Violin to play in!  If you wanted to make things a bit easier on the violinist you could transpose the piece down a half step to D minor and I'm guessing that the double stops that you have would be easier to execute.  Also, the violin is capable of many more different kinds of stops to add to the virtuosity.  You could add more double, triple and quadruple stops yourself or ask the violinist that you end up working with to add some themselves where appropriate to increase the virtuosity of the piece.  If you were working with a particularly talented violinist you could even ask them to include some left hand pizzicato, or high natural and artificial harmonics.  It would make the impression of a kind of "Devil's Trill Sonata".  Great job and thanks for sharing!

8 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi @olivercomposer!

I think the key of Eb minor is a particularly difficult key for the Violin to play in!  If you wanted to make things a bit easier on the violinist you could transpose the piece down a half step to D minor and I'm guessing that the double stops that you have would be easier to execute.  Also, the violin is capable of many more different kinds of stops to add to the virtuosity.  You could add more double, triple and quadruple stops yourself or ask the violinist that you end up working with to add some themselves where appropriate to increase the virtuosity of the piece.  If you were working with a particularly talented violinist you could even ask them to include some left hand pizzicato, or high natural and artificial harmonics.  It would make the impression of a kind of "Devil's Trill Sonata".  Great job and thanks for sharing!

 

Hi,

I don't want to make it easier. The art is full of suffering and pain! 😄 

The pain and suffering will be yours when you hear how out of tune a violinist attempting to play in Eb minor is. Moving it down a half step would make it sound substantially better without changing a note, and no one in the audience will know the difference. Why is making the performer work harder important to you as a composer? Who does that benefit? I would think that, if you want people to play your music, you would want to write things that sound good and are rewarding to play. Putting bowed strings in six flats is an effective strategy if your goal is to miss both targets.

2 hours ago, papergates said:

The pain and suffering will be yours when you hear how out of tune a violinist attempting to play in Eb minor is. Moving it down a half step would make it sound substantially better without changing a note, and no one in the audience will know the difference. Why is making the performer work harder important to you as a composer? Who does that benefit? I would think that, if you want people to play your music, you would want to write things that sound good and are rewarding to play. Putting bowed strings in six flats is an effective strategy if your goal is to miss both targets.

 

I'm just kidding.