Tango for guitar and violin

It's one of my oldest pieces I wrote and by far the one I spent most time working on. I named it Tango because I find that the name fits it the best - although one may argue that its not tangoish enough :)Since I am not a violinist, I tried to leave bowing and legato markings for the performer (who I wish there was). I know there are some places where I wasn't really sure how to notate things to make it fully understandable. Watch out for the midi file - it doesn't play harmonics and it sounds pretty bad.Overall, how do you find the piece? Which part are the weakest and strongest? Every opinion is important to me as I need something which would help me to go back to writing music after a very long break. :)

Tango for guitar and violin

Do you have any sheet music for this? I'm a violinist, so I could help you out with some of the notational issues as well as bowings and whatnot, but I would need a score.

Of course I have. I thought I already uploaded it yesterday but apparently I must've misclicked something. Nevertheless, now you should be able to download it. Thank you for your time

Okay I can view it now.

One measure after C: the first chord on the violin is impossible to play. You could either change it two F-A, or F-C. Personally I would recommend the C, because it creates a nice rising chromaticism with the C#-D-D# that follows.

Measure 48: If you're trying to write out a harmonic here, I don't think this is how it is notated. How I've seen it is a little circle placed above the note. I'm fairly sure the circle is for natural harmonics only, and since that's what you have written, I think that's what you want. Usually the diamond shaped note YOU have written is for artificial harmonics. If you want to know the difference between natural and artificial just ask, but I'll assume you already know and I'll move on.

Measure 55: Just a note, this is doable on a violin. I'm not saying you should change it, it's absolutely playable. Just know that the farther the interval becomes, the harder it will be to play, until eventually it just becomes impossible. Strings are fortunate because octaves are very easy to play for us, as well as several steps above that.

Measure 57: I'm not sure what you want here. If you want all of those notes, including the graces, played in one bow, you can just have one slur put over all of them. What you have written would result in all of them being played in one bow, but it is just notated wrong.

Measure 85: I'm not certain of this, but I believe those grace notes and the slur should be flipped over. However I'm not absolutely certain.

Measures 94-95: Here's that slur problem again. What you have written would get you a single bow, but that slur should stretch from the D to the E.

Measures 99-104: I'm not advanced enough on the violin to know how to interpret these harmonics. Hopefully someone can help both you and I with that. Sorry :(

Very nicely written!

The guitar writing was especially well done. Watch out in measure 48. Did you mean an artificial sounding at E above the written E? If so, then the artificial harmonic is actually a fourth above the written note, so the stopped note is an A and the sounded note is an E. Also in 49, the gliss down from the octaved-B is very very very difficult to do and will probably not sound how you want it to sound. Wait, I see that you've written artificials correctly later... did you mean natural harmonic then? If so, then that's denoted by an open circle above the note.

Overall, very nice. I enjoyed the harmonies, though I feel like you could have been a little more adventurous. Maybe a little more exploration of a relaxed-feel tango would be nice.

Good job :)

Thank you for your reviews,

Indeed, what I wanted in 48 was a pure, natural harmonic. I dont really know why I wrote it that way - maybe because of my guitar background, where there is a common practice of writing all harmonics with diamonds.

I'll fix all those slur issues when I got home. I subconciously felt that the octave glissando would be very hard to play. Well, if it's virtuoso stuff - I'll change it into single note gliss.

About the C part - I'll change it to F-C, although will miss the fuller sound :)

I'm glad you liked it and hope it will make me finish my other tangos, which are waiting for my attention for so long.