| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
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| Composition Year | 1985 |
| Genre Categories | Meditations; For violin, piano; Scores featuring the violin; |
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| Work Title | Meditation for Violin and Piano |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Sydeman, William Jay |
| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | IWS 86 |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1985 |
| First Publication. | 2019 |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 3 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | violin, piano |
Meditation describes it accurately… sort of like a composer ruminating about life and cosmic stuff, then putting these thoughts to sound. The sound is that early 20th-century atonal sound, but is surprisingly delicate. Though seemingly quite straightforward rhythmically, it is intended to sound like a rubato meditation, indications of which are in the score.
Maybe it would make a nice encore piece if the audience wanted to mellow out on the way home... say after hearing the Prokofiev toccata or its ilk.
– W. Jay Sydeman