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Continue ShoppingCanfield: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano (Tehillim)
Code: JP9010
ISMN: 979-0-3019-0145-8
The Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, "Tehillim," was
composed in 2011. The subtitle, "Tehillim" is the Hebrew
word for "Psalms," and the sonata sets four of the 150
canonical psalms, Psalms 121, 22, 137, and 103. The
composer has attempted to portray certain things in each
of these psalms in the music.
In the first movement, a setting of Psalm 121, there is
an ascending line to suggest the fact that this psalm is
one of those termed as "A Song of Ascents." Additionally,
the line "He will not let your foot be moved" is
suggested by repeated unchanging solid chords in the
piano part, as the violin wanders around above them. The
second movement sets Psalm 22, containing the opening
cry of agony by the psalmist, and later the Savior upon
the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me."
Consequently, the movement is full of dissonant gestures
portraying this agonizing outburst. The third movement
depicts the lament of the people of God as they have
been carried off to captivity in Babylon as found in
Psalm 137. Contrasting this is the final movement, a
setting of Psalm 103. The dance-like character of this
movement remembers King David's dancing before the Ark
of the Covenant as he reflects on the benefits of his
relationship with his God.
Total duration is approximately 14.25 minutes.
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