2 posts tagged “violin”

Do you play any musical instruments?

Several, to varying degrees of competence. Bass guitar, fingerstyle acoustic guitar, psaltery, banjo, mandolin, violin, piano/keyboards, recorder, random and varied other things. Also create my own instruments in cSound and play and write for those.

Considering Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's, Rosenkranz Sonaten, and having, as he, "faith in the strings" (i.e., his "fides in fidibus" remark which I've used as a subject here), I wanted to work a bit with them and, studying him, work with his style as well. That toying around resulted in three pieces, or alternatively, one throw-away piece and two fragments. For any interested, "Duet for Violin and 'Cello in Eb minor" is the finished study, and the fragments are the duet in G# minor and the piece for solo violin. I may pick up the fragments for further development at some point, the other duet in particular.