Antoni Cofalik, When Christ Is Born... Christmas Carols And Pastorales

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Antoni Cofalik

When Christ Is Born... Christmas Carols and Pastorales

for Solo Violin

Publisher: PWM Edition

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Cat. no. 10450

Christmas carols those popular Christian songs sung during the festive period - appear every year in various kinds of arrangement - vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental - in Polish catalogues of publications. ''Christmas Carols and Pastorales'' for solo violin, presented here, were written with young violinists in mind, with the intention of providing them with the opportunity of playing such songs in a concert version. I considered quasi-capriccio, i.e. a short show-piece, the most suitable form for that type of work. In addition to the basic melody, the player will find here a whole range of virtuoso effects: for example, double stops, chords, passage work, arpeggios, tremolando, cross-string bowings, bariolage, ricochet, double staccato, chromatic glissando, harmonics, left-hand pizzicato and even sul ponticello. The similarities between the carols included in the collection and the caprices by Paganini, Wieniawski and Ernst as well as the solo compositions by Bach and Ysaye are not accidental. I have made stylistic diversity my aim. An assessment of the harmonic experiment used in the only non-Polish Christmas carol (''Silent Night'') is left to the performer. The degree of difficulty of the selected carols is differentiated, ranging from those which are relatively simple - to be used in primary schools - to more difficult ones, intended for advanced violinists. In the arrangement of the whole, I have applied the principle of contrast, i.e. the more lively works have been interspersed with quieter numbers, and the strictly virtuoso pieces with more poetic arrangements. I hope that young, ambitious violinists will include ''Christmas Carols and Pastorales'' in their solo repertory. The mastery of the pieces and their presentation at all kinds of Christmas and New Year concerts should be a cause of both satisfaction and advantage to them. So let us play and sing to the glory of the Lord! [A. Cofalik]

Cover Design: Agnieszka Dobosz
Illustrator: Agnieszka Dobosz
Editor: Antoni Cofalik

ISMN 979-0-2740-0265-7
Language of edition: eng, pol
Number of pages: 24
Cover: softcover
No. of edition: 7
Published: 2017
Type: instrumental solo
Size: A4 vertical (210x297 mm)

Table of contents:

Cofalik Antoni	An angel told the shepherds
Cofalik Antoni	Silent night
Cofalik Antoni	Go to the stable, ye shepherds
Cofalik Antoni	This day in Bethlehem
Cofalik Antoni	When Christ is born
Cofalik Antoni	When the fair Maiden
Cofalik Antoni	When the fair Maiden (bis)
Cofalik Antoni	Jesus, the little one
Cofalik Antoni	Jesus, the little one (bis)
Cofalik Antoni	Lullay, my little Jesus
Cofalik Antoni	Wise men of the world
Cofalik Antoni	In the quiet of that humble stable
Cofalik Antoni	Hey, little one
Cofalik Antoni	It was at midnight
Cofalik Antoni	They came running to Bethlehem
Cofalik Antoni	Joyful sounds from heaven came down
Cofalik Antoni	Hail to the Divine Being
Cofalik Antoni	In the stillness of the night