Wood That Sings
Title
Wood That Sings
Description
American Indian citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, Brent Michael Davids' "Wood That Sings" was composed for solo violin.
As written on the composer's website, "Wood That Sings is composed for solo viiolin with scordatura re-tuning of its low string, evokes the rhythms and refrains of the single-stringed Apache violin. The Western violin's G string is tuned down to a low A in bass clef, creating the characteristic 'buzzy' quality that spawned the Apache violin's 'buzzer' nickname. The work contains an Apache violin-like melody and the rhythms borrow from both the duple and triple beats of indigenous songs. Western musical techniques are also incorporated, such as double, triple and quadruple stops, harmonic and tritone sonorities, and printed music notation, all of which do not occur in traditional Apache violin songs. Often twisting and leaping from one to another, the indigenous and western phrases bounce like horsehair bows would dance on either a Western or Apache stringed instrument. The work is intended to be a strong, challenging, virtuosic, shake-a-leg experience for both performer and audience."
The work was comissiooned by Dr. Katherine McLin and edited by Michael DiBarry.
As written on the composer's website, "Wood That Sings is composed for solo viiolin with scordatura re-tuning of its low string, evokes the rhythms and refrains of the single-stringed Apache violin. The Western violin's G string is tuned down to a low A in bass clef, creating the characteristic 'buzzy' quality that spawned the Apache violin's 'buzzer' nickname. The work contains an Apache violin-like melody and the rhythms borrow from both the duple and triple beats of indigenous songs. Western musical techniques are also incorporated, such as double, triple and quadruple stops, harmonic and tritone sonorities, and printed music notation, all of which do not occur in traditional Apache violin songs. Often twisting and leaping from one to another, the indigenous and western phrases bounce like horsehair bows would dance on either a Western or Apache stringed instrument. The work is intended to be a strong, challenging, virtuosic, shake-a-leg experience for both performer and audience."
The work was comissiooned by Dr. Katherine McLin and edited by Michael DiBarry.
Creator
Davids, Brent Michael
Source
Brent Michael Davids (bio), https://www.seeadot.com/composers/brent-michael-davids
Brent Michael Davids, Wood That Songs (score), https://www.brentmichaeldavids.com/store.html?fbclid=IwAR16g-1W6FQn5sp_5UTazLAgwFR-sL_yOxhPyRrX_T-csgknNcZrqEzl4VI#
Date
2019
Format
0-10 minutes
Coverage
2000-
Instrumentation
violin / violon
Ensemble Type
solo
Citation
Davids, Brent Michael, “Wood That Sings,” Music EnLivened, accessed November 24, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/191.
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