° This small circle symbol indicates that the player should lightly touch the string as he/she plays, in order to produce the effect of “harmonics”. Don’t confuse it with an accent!Īlso written above the stave, this is a “down bow” symbol – the player should draw the bow downwards to play the note. Written above the stave, this is an “up bow” symbol, which means the player should push the bow upwards to play this note. Pizzicato (or pizz.) is an instruction to pluck the string with a finger, rather than the normal method of using the bow.Īrco is used after a pizzicato instruction, to show that the normal bowing method should be resumed. This is not an exhaustive list however, and you should strive to increase your knowledge by studying musical scores as you listen, and looking up any unfamiliar words or symbols you find.
In this section we’ll look at some of the instrument specific musical terminology and facts that have appeared in past papers for Grade 7. It’s “a compendium of string effects,” writes Burge, designed to challenge the competitors’ techniques, yet it’s no hodge-podge of mere “effects,” thanks to its constant melodic and rhythmic forward motion.Instrument Specifics for Grade 7 Score Reading Questions violist Sharon Wei and pianist Angela Park, perform String Theory (2011), composed as the test piece for the 2012 Eckhardt-Gramatté competition. Michael Schulman in reviewing this CD for The WholeNote Magazine wrote. This Centrediscs CD is available from the Canadian Music Centre. The viola version of String Theory was recorded on the Ensemble Made in Canada CD entitled the Chamber Music of John Burge by violist Sharon Wei, and pianist Angela Park.
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The competition was judged by all four members of the Borealis String Quartet.įull score and part are available from the Canadian Music Centre for purchase (printable pdf or mail order), libary loan or nonprintable pdf for review purposes: String Theory (Violin/Piano Version)-CMC Brian Yoon performed the work again on the winner’s national tour of Canada in the fall of 2012 with collaborative pianist, Eliza Ching. Three finalists repeated the work again on May 6th with the following prizes being awarded: First prize to Brian Yoon, cello Second prize to Dorothy Ro, violin Third prize to Véronique Mathieu, violin. On May 4th and 5th, 2012, this work was performed by seven musicians in the semi-final round of the competition: four violinists, two cellists and one violist. Not wanting to leave the piano out of the investigation of novel effects, the pianist is asked to pluck some high notes inside the piano at the very end of the work as the string player spins out the last few high notes.
While the composition is structured in a contrasting slow-fast-slow design, a high level of cohesion is obtained as the music repeatedly comes back to the opening four-note motive heard initially in the piano. On a deeper level, the scientific branch of string theory is considered a contender for a "theory of everything," and this musical composition certainly tries to cover as many emotional levels as possible within the constraints of the work’s overall duration. Indeed, the work is a compendium of string effects such as glissandos, tremolos, harmonics, multiple-stopped chords, pizzicato and different bowing techniques. The title is a bit of a play on words in the way that it makes reference to the branch of particle physics given the same label, while on the music side it represents a systematic or theoretical approach to writing for string instruments. Programme Note: String Theory, for solo string instrument and piano (versions available for violin, viola or cello) was composed as the test piece for the 2012 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. Performed by the seven semi-finalistsof the 2012 Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition for Strings.
Premiere: May 4-6, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II Music Building, Brandon University, Brandon, MB. Commissioner: Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competittion
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