Duo for Violin and Piano

Duo for Violin and Piano was commissioned by the McKim fund for a premiere at the Library of Congress on November 18, 1888. It was composed during the winter of 1987-88 and is called "Duo" Because the violin and piano are treated as equal partners in dialogue with each other. The work is in one continuous movement although there are several discernible sections. The thematic ideas presented by the violin in the unaccompanied opening permeate the entire work, openly or in the guise of variation. Other sections have their own musical ideas and can be described in turn as improvisatory, lyrical, energetic, and noble. In the coda the mood of the opening returns, altered by the changes its material has gone through by the other musical themes it has encountered. Violin Part, 8 Pages; Piano Part 24 Pages. Robert Starer (MCA MUSIC).