SKU: A0.646741

One of my greatest joys as a developing violinist was playing duets with my teachers. I could and would compare everything. I also believe that it helped develop my intonation because I could hear harmonically and not just melodically when I played by myself. A secondo violin part has been composed to achieve this.

SKU: A0.980422

Duration: ca. 6 minutes. The full score is available for purchase at SMP Press. 

Review: 

...My dictionary gives three definitions of 'Intermezzo,' also the name of a world premiere for violin and piano, Reiko Nishioka on violin and the composer, Gary Noland, on piano.  Included are the words 'light character.'  If so, the piece has intercalary intermezzos of its own smoothly segued between sections of sophisticated sobriety-or vice-versa.  I's a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else's, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it's intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.-Rocky Leplin, Music Critic, The Berkeley Voice

SKU: A0.646738

One of my greatest joys as a developing violinist was playing duets with my teachers. I could and would compare everything. I also believe that it helped develop my intonation because I could hear harmonically and not just melodically when I played by myself. A secondo violin part has been composed to achieve this.

SKU: A0.646740

One of my greatest joys as a developing violinist was playing duets with my teachers. I could and would compare everything. I also believe that it helped develop my intonation because I could hear harmonically and not just melodically when I played by myself. A secondo violin part has been composed to achieve this.

SKU: A0.646742

One of my greatest joys as a developing violinist was playing duets with my teachers. I could and would compare everything. I also believe that it helped develop my intonation because I could hear harmonically and not just melodically when I played by myself. A secondo violin part has been composed to achieve this.

SKU: A0.646739

One of my greatest joys as a developing violinist was playing duets with my teachers. I could and would compare everything. I also believe that it helped develop my intonation because I could hear harmonically and not just melodically when I played by myself. A secondo violin part has been composed to achieve this.

SKU: DX.161113

A solo beginning with unrelated melodic in the piano then join by the soloist in a straight forward manner with the theme. The chorus continues in much the same way and then concluded with a simple transition in the piano. The second verse is much like the first, melodically only supported by changing moods in the piano. The third section melody is in the piano while the soloist presents a gently obbligato. The next transition is more active rhythmically and then concludes in a sense of determined solemnity.