Traurigkeit, for Violin and Piano

Hey everyone, you might have seen me post this piece in the incomplete section but of course now it is finally finished. To give you some basic information about the piece, it is obviously for Violin and Piano, but more interestingly it is based around a bi-tonal system. For those who don't know, basically bi-tonal means what you would think, two tonalities, or two triads being emphasized at the same time. For the most part a certain triad will be played in the LH piano with another in the RH with the violin emphasizing one of them. As for inspiration of the piece, it basically just started out as an assignment my professor gave me just to explore different tonalities and such, eventually somewhere down the line though it evolved into this. To set the mood of the piece, I chose the title Traurigkeit which roughly translates to 'full of sorrow' in german, also I chose a poem by Sri Chinmoy on the topic of sorrow to more fully set the mood.

At the rim of sorrow

He found his heartless mind.

On the brink of despair

He found his soulless heart.

In the sea of destruction

He found his goalless soul.

Centuries dropped dead.

Now

On the shore of Time

He finds his searching mind

He finds his crying heart

He finds his illumining soul.

-Sri Chinmoy

Hope you guys enjoy, any comments are welcome.

Obviously the recording isn't the greatest but hopefully it should get the point across. Also it is supposed to be performed in late january so I'll get the live recording of that asap.

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This might even be considered "avant-garde" I guess so if any mods feel like moving it go for it

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Ja.

Tja, woher kommst du denn?

I apologize for that, its fixed now

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oh and xanic im just from the US, i speak very little german but i love the language and hope to take a class on it eventually here at FSU

Also theres a lot of missed glissandos and articulations in the recording because finale and garritan are just too awesome together, just a warning

what an awesome forum haha..