Viola Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (arranged for violin and piano in E minor)

Viola Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (arranged for violin and piano; in E Minor)Music by Davison YonThe orginal concerto is for viola, but this one has been arranged for violin in E minorViola Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (arranged for violin and piano in E minor)

Viola Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (arranged for violin and piano in E minor)

audio is to come soon!

Is this really arranged? It looks quite impossible to play: see for example page two (could you please include measure numbers?)

oneother little issue. The clefs where not really clear on the first page. The piano has 2 bass clefs. On the lowest line it seems that somewhere the lowest has changes into an 8va basso bas-clef. Some part of the score seem like you put effort in your presentation, some parts really don't...

I hope to see the audio file soon. It looks interesting

I may be able to make further comments when you upload the audio, but for now there are some issues I can see immediately:

Your title is confusing - is this the arrangement for violin? It still says on the music 'Viola Concerto No.1' and 'Solo Viola' but the solo part is clearly for violin as it is written in treble clef and in the violin's range. You need to make this clear.

Do you play the piano? If so, I would be very intrigued to watch you perform passages such as bars 13-16 after the first Moderato (please use bars numbers in your scores - it makes it much simpler to identify a particular place in the music when reviewing) which at my estimation would require the pianist to have at least twelve fingers on their right hand alone! If these chords are arpeggiated (the only conceivable way of performing them) you should indicate this with a wavy line.

The violin part looks mostly alright, most the chords are playable by a good performer (some, like on page 4, are not) and makes full use of its range. The trill marking on page 9 makes no sense above what notes you have written. I think you intend each quaver to be trilled with the grace note, in which case you need seperate trill lines for each one.

Finally, although this is a bit speculative, the idea of transposing up a fifth to fit a different solo string instrument has both pros and cons. On the plus side, it means that the use of open strings are the same on the two instruments, so chords will still be playable and the music is easy to trascribe via ctrl+c, ctrl+v, Transpose. The violin and viola are also similar enough to allow this. On the other hand, the orchestral/piano parts may encounter problems. Notes that were comfortably in range for certain instruments (oboes, horns, contrabasses) may now be scarily high or even impossible to produce. Certain registral characteristics may also be lost, for example the powerful timbre of low oboes or low cellos, or made insecure in a higher position (horns, strings). I'd need to see the orchestral score of this version to fully comment on this though.

The piano writting in this piece is simply... horrible :mellow:

Tenth is a very dificult interval for play, and with these other notes between is simply imposible —at least very, very akward.— This piano part seems designed to give a very nice tendinosis to the pianist who try to play. And I'm talking about measures 14-16. Other measures is simply impossible to play or simply don't make sense. The only way this piano part can be played is with a player-piano, Disklavier (Like some Peter Gena's pieces) or a midi sampling.

I can't say much about the viola (violin) part. First I don't understant why you choose a violin to rearrange a viola concerto. I think that change is unnecesary. Viola is a very pretty instrument.

I think you should specify arpeggios in the chords or at least specifing the use of a baroque bow.

This for now. I will search in literature for a good book in the arragenment and recomend it. For now the only thing I can say is: An arrangement is a completly NEW piece who should be thinked like the original piece.

Anyway, Keep working!

Thank you all for you comments. I was aware of the piano part being, for the most part, impossible to play. The piano part is more of a score reduction, not a real part that a pianist would play. Also, as being both a violinist and violist, I find the violin part to be most playable, seeing as while I transcribed the piece, I made sure that I could preform it.

The audio file, Which I made in Resaon, is not a supported file, so now I have to convert it to MP3...so it will be up in about a day or two. I will post the full orchestration of this piece soon. I will alos post the orginal work, for viola, also.

Again, thank you all for all of your comments, they very help me out!

The audio has been uploaded! Check it out

I have added to audio. I hope that this helps you in giving me feedback on the piece