Faye-Ellen Silverman

Musicians of the Air

Year: 2019

Duration (in minutes): 7'

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Publisher: Subito Music Corp.

Publisher website: https://www.subitomusic.com/



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Description: Musicians of the Air (2019) is a work for solo violin in three short movements, all related to birds. My Yiddish name is “faygele”, meaning, at the time the name was chosen, “little bird”, and I grew up with pet parakeets, so birds seemed an appropriate animal choice for a composition written for a Composers Concordance concert with the theme of “Animals”. The work’s title comes from a quote by Izaak Walton (1593-1683) who writes of "those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art." The three movements are Morning Song (melodic, and using a few grace notes along with some double stops and violin harmonics), Flight (which incorporates trills), and Chickens Feeding, a short movement of just pizzicato, including pizzicato double, triple and quadruple stops, along with the appropriately harsh Bartók pizzicato to imitate pecking chickens. The work is published by Seesaw Music, a division of Subito Music Corp.

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