Larsen - Blue Piece [ECS:1.3568]

Blue Piece for violin and piano is a musical poem which honors the American down-home, twelve-bar blues. Its relaxed, laid-back melodic line meanders about chord tones, dwelling on the “blue third” interval of its key areas D major and Db major. I encourage you to be “languid and humid” with the music, and to seize each opportunity to bend the pitch of each “blue third” to make the listener yearn for resolution.

In this two-minute work, I re-imagined the traditional blues form (twelve bars in 4/4 meter divided into 3 phrases) as a blues in the form of twenty-one bars in 6/4 meter divided into three phrases. -Libby Larsen, 2018

Includes score and part. Duration: 2:00

Additional Information

SKU (Product number)1.3568*

Composer/ArrangerLarsen, Libby

Voicing & InstrumentsViolin and Piano

DifficultyMedium

Historical Period21st Century

Popular SearchesInstrumental Solo

Recording CreditsRecorded by Moonkyung Lee, violin, and Martha Locker, piano. Copyright 2018, Navona Records. Used by permission.

PublisherGalaxy Music Corporation