Repertoire for Electric Violin

April 19, 2012 at 03:11 PM · I can think of one piece by Mark Langford "Mostly in B flat" here's the link: http://sounz.org.nz/works/show/12079/ If it's been played on ordinary violin then the composer certainly thought it would work well electric as the piano part is rather noisy.

April 19, 2012 at 03:32 PM · I know Phillip Glass wrote a piece for solo amplified violin - "Strung Out." I remember running across it in the music library in college but never played it. Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) also has some compositions that would work great with electric violin

April 20, 2012 at 03:30 PM · sry, i am sure this will not help;

I try to make my own repertoire for me, when i play on my electric violin - I think it is a different & rather new, unexplored instrument.

Also in use with effects.

Thats, what makes it so exciting!

April 20, 2012 at 07:58 PM · Have you tried contacting Adam DeGraff? He might have some ideas for you. Note: I attended a violin improvisation workshop with him. He seems like a great guy. And his sidekick Russell Fallstad seems very accessible too.

April 21, 2012 at 09:59 AM · A John Adams piece has been recorded on electric violin and also Nico Muhly's Seeing Is Believing is for 6 string electric violin.

On a personal note I would love to see more use of the electric violin in classical music.

April 21, 2012 at 10:54 AM · Ian, I've got an electric violin solo in the Dance Music of my opera, written for chamber orchestra. To hear it in context, it comes at the latter part of Part Two.

April 21, 2012 at 11:26 AM · I've got a book of Jean-Luc Ponty pieces that I probably bought in the late 70s or early 80s. They're "complete" arrangements with piano, guitar, etc.

I think solo Bach sounds very cool on an electric violin, run through a phase shifter. The JLP sound!

April 22, 2012 at 02:38 AM · Glass, Phillip:

Strung Out (1967) 16'

Amplified violin

Pub:Dunvagen Music Publishers $14.20

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/00044198/details.html?kbid=1296

includes Sample page.

* For important information regarding score rental & licensing, go to the contact page on the Dunvagen site.

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Adams, John:

The Dharma at Big Sur (2003) 27'

for electric violin and orchestra.

solo amplified violin - 0.0.2bcl.0-4.3.2.btrbn.1-timp.perc(4):vib/glsp/mar/chimes; almglocken/xyl; 4bowl gongs/glsp/chimes/almglocken/tgl; tuned gongs/2pots/crotales-pft-2hrp-2kbrd samplers-strings.

For complete technical requirements go to:

Pub: Boosey & Hawkes

World Premiere:10/24/2003

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California

Tracy Silverman, violin / Los Angeles Philharmonic / Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Muhly, Nico:

Seeing Is Believing (2007) 15'

Six-string electric violin

1111 - 1120 - perc/pf(cel) - str(11111)

Publisher: St. Rose

Rental Agent Chester/Novello

For Thomas Gould & Aurora Orchestra

Digital perusal score available from ScoresOnDemand

April 22, 2012 at 09:51 PM · A search for Concertos and Electric Violin in Worldcat (limited to scores) and came up with these results. There were a lot more results not limiting to scores.

Concerto for electric violin: for solo violin and ensemble (1992)

by James Fulkerson

Amsterdam: Donemus, 1992.

Concerto for the electric violin

by Michael Sahl

New York: Seesaw Corp., c1974.

Agent: Subito

1st Violin Concerto, for violin with delay and ensemble, 1991/1992

by Hanna Kulenty

Amsterdam: Donemus, c1998.

Chorale times two : 2nd movement from Concerto for violin & electro-acoustic band : 1996

by Paul Dresher

Berkeley, CA: Minimax Music, 1996?

Voodoo violin concerto no. 1 /

Daniel Bernard Roumain

For solo violin, flute, Bb clarinet, C trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, drum kit, piano, violin, violoncello and electric (preferred) or acoustic bass.

"An electric and/or amplified instrument may be used for all cadenzas"--P. [2]."

[United States] : Daniel Bernard Roumain/DBR Music ; [Verona, NJ] : Distributied [sic] by Subito Music, ©2002.

Richard Einhorn

Maxwell's Demon

Solo Electric Violin

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_einhorn.htm

http://www.richardeinhorn.com/

Crumb, George

Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the DarkLand) (Images I) 1970

2Vln.Vla.Vc (all amplified) (players double on perc)

Duration: 25 mins

Performance score (4 are needed for performance) EP66304 $49.00 each

Pub: C.F. Peters

April 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM · I got quite a shock when I tried an electrified violin. It made my hair stand on end ...

April 23, 2012 at 04:51 PM · Terry Riley’s “The Palmian Chord Ryddle”

(for electric violin and orchestra, Tracy Silverman, soloist).

The Nashville Symphony premier May 3, 4 & 5, 2012. Then taking it on tour to Indianapolis area (May 10) and Carnegie Hall (May 12).

Published by G. Schirmer.

April 24, 2012 at 05:07 AM · I play electric regularly and see no need for different repertoire. The electric is excellent for classical music. My Zeta, combined with the settings on my Fender Acoustasonic amp give a soft, mellow tone with some edge and reverb.

I'm playing La Folia these days and loving it. It is a bit easier to make music dramatic on an electric, which, I find, makes it easier for people to appreciate classical from a non-expert, though decent, player like myself.

Of course, Vivaldi's storm is a classic electric piece, some transcriptions of tocatta and fugue, I used to really enjoy playing the contradanza the Vanessa Mae does, arrival of the queen of sheba, Bach partitas and concertos, I'm playing some Paganini, Saint Saens right now. The easier parts of Paganini's Campanella sound shockingly good on electric!

April 25, 2012 at 08:17 AM · u shud do saber dance by khachaturian lulz