The American Viola Society suite or viola alone Quincy Porter (897966) AVS Pulications 8
Preace The American comoser Quincy Porter (897 966) comleted his Suite or Viola Alone on Octoer 5, 9, during a threeyear stay in Paris unded y a Guggenheim Fellowshi Porter remiered the work at a critically successul recital devoted to his music at the Salle Choin on Feruary 8, 9; this concert greatly urthered his reutation as oth a comoser and violist Ater his return to the United States, Porter held teaching and administrative osts at the Cleveland Institute o Music, Vassar, the New England Conservatory o Music, and Yale Highly committed to the develoment and romotion o American music, Porter was among a grou o comosers who coounded the American Music Center (Aaron Coland and Howard Hanson were two o his notale colleagues in this endeavor) While Porter s music exhiits a twentiethcentury tonality, he eschewed many o the avantgarde exeriments o his ellow comosers and ocused on writing wellcrated music in traditional orms The Suite or Viola Alone is a model o Porter s suer comositional cratsmanshi: idiomatically written or the viola, the suite s our tightly constructed movements dislay a mixture o styles and harmonic consonance and dissonance The irst movement, Lento, exlores the viola s color alette and leads directly into the renetic Allegro urioso, with a ulsating rhythmic drive that suggests a locomotive The lyrical third movement, Larghetto esressivo, is a calm and serene moment o reose eore the oisterous Allegro siritoso, an imressive eat o iddling that reveals Porter s American roots This AVS edition is made ossile y the generosity o the Quincy Porter estate Please see the Critical Comments or additional details on the sources or this edition David M ynog, editor Octoer 5
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5 # # # cresc dim # n 5 5 5 dim F 55 cresc oco a oco 6 65 ( a temo )** 7 ( oco ritardando )** # # # # ƒ 75 # # # # # # # # # # dim oco a oco cresc 8 # # # # # # # # 85 # # # # J, # # Ï ** See the critical comments regarding the accuracy o these temo markings Porter Suite or Viola Alone ^ Fine Œ J Paris, Oct 5, 9
Critical Comments In rearing this edition, two sources were consulted rom the Quincy Porter aers in the Irving S Gilmore Music Lirary o Yale University: a holograh score marked original manuscrit, earing a coyright date o 97 (HM) and the Valley Music Press (VMP) edition, earing a coyright date o 97 and ulished in 96 Two other sources were consulted: an edition titled Suite Para Viola Solo ulished in the oletín LatinoAmericano de Música vol 5, sulemento musical (Oct 9): 9 9 (LM) and Porter s recording o this work (New Music Recordings 5, 99; CRI SRD 9, 978) While there are discreancies among the HM, VMP, and LM sources, this new AVS edition largely adheres to the holograh manuscrit, which contains several markings that do not aear in the VMP or LM edition In addition to several extra ingerings, other markings (and alternative readings in the other editions) aear elow: M 8 In the HM, a slur aears over the irst two notes o the trilet on eat three M 7 In the HM, a marcato accent () aears over the second eighth note o the measure M 6 8 The HM and LM edition contain the marking oco a oco accel e cresc in M 6 The VMP edition contains only oco a oco accel in M 6, with the marking oco a oco cresc in M 8 (In Porter s recording o the work, he egins oth a crescendo and accelerando in M 6) M The LM edition contains an additional marcato accent on the irst note (# ) o the second threenote grouing o sixteenth notes, which is likely a transcrition error M The HM contains a tie etween the second and third notes (g) in the lower voice, which is asent in the VMP and LM editions M 5 In the HM, dashes aear on the irst sixteenth note o each threenote grouing o sixteenth notes in this measure M 8 The marcato accents in the HM are laced etween the uer and lower viola voices The VMP and LM editions transcried this as an accent in each voice As the lacement o these accents in the HM seems to e a sace issue (text comletely ills the sace aove the staves, reventing any additional markings there), the accents likely are intended only or the uer voice, similar to M 6 M 9 In the HM, a slur aears on the third eat s second and third sixteenth notes M 6 In the LM edition, a marcato accent aears on the ourth note in this measure, which is likely a transcrition error M 57 In addition to the sorzando accents (^) on the ith and eleventh notes in this measure, marcato accents () aear elow these notes in the LM edition, which are likely transcrition errors
M 7 In the HM and LM edition, the uer voice s inal eat consists o a sixteenth note and an eighth note ollowed y a sixteenth rest This was transcried in the VMP edition as two sixteenth notes ollowed y a sixteenth rest and is also reroduced here as such M 76 The HM contains a time signature change to, which is asent in the VMP and LM editions M 77 In the HM, a ermata aears over the inal arline M 78 In addition to the temo marking o Larghetto esressivo, the HM and LM edition also contain the marking esressivo M 9 In the HM, a dash aears over the irst note o this measure M 6 7 The HM and LM edition contain a crescendo rom the third eat o M 6 to the second eat o M 7, with a dynamic marking o on the second eat o M 7 M 8 The HM and LM contain the marking oco a oco cresc ed acccel The VMP edition searates these into two markings: oco a oco cresc and oco a oco accel M 5 The HM contains the temo marking Allegro siritoso; the VMP and LM editions Allegro sirituoso M 7 In the HM and VMP edition, a dot aears over the second note in this measure (e ), which is asent in the LM, likely owing to a transcrition error M 9 In the HM and VMP edition, a dash aears over the irst note in this measure, which is asent in the LM, likely owing to a transcrition error M 7 In the HM, a marcato accent aears on the seventh sixteenth note o the measure ( ) In the VMP and LM editions, the accent aears on the eighth sixteenth note (lat ), which, given the lacement o other accents throughout this movement, is likely a transcrition error M 7 7 The HM and LM edition do not contain a oco ritardando and a temo in these measures, nor is there a noticeale ritard in M 7 in Porter s recording The resence o these markings in the VMP edition cannot satisactorily e exlained as a transcrition error, so Porter likely chose to incororate these notations in the VMP edition M 88 In the HM and VMP edition, a dash aears over the irst note in this measure, which is asent in the LM, likely owing to a transcrition error David M ynog, editor Octoer 5
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