Name: Toccata - Eccentric Dance by Eric Watson Violin Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Eric Watson
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Toccata - Eccentric Dance
by Eric Watson Violin Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Toccata - Eccentric Dance

Artist Eric Watson

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Eric Watson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement Violin Solo

Publisher Eric Watson

Product ID 1088634

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Violin

Product Description

The title Toccata comes from the Italian word toccare meaning to touch and generally implies a composition that has many fast notes featuring technical and virtuosic playing requiring great finger facility. The subtitle though is Eccentric Dance and as I wrote it I had in mind the Tarantella dance originating from the province of Taranto, Italy. This dance has two aspects, a stately court dance, which you can hear in the middle section of the work and a more frenetic, agitated movement which is heard in the first and final section. This supposedly originates from the jerky, hysterical and spasmodic body actions of a victim bitten by the wolf or tarantula spider common to that region of Italy.

The whirling, delirium tarantella dance is most often written in 6/8 and is played faster and faster and ends only when one of the dancers gives up in exhaustion! Toccata was written as a test pice for the Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition, 2017, and is 5.00 minutes in length.

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