The American Viola Society lamentation or viola and iano eanne ehrend (19111988) AVS Publications 05
Preace eanne ehrend studied iano ith ose Homann and comosition ith Rosario Scalero during the early days o the Curtis Institute She gave u comosition in the 190s as she elt that oortunities or omen in comosing ere too limiting 1 Instead, she devoted hersel to romoting American music including music by her contemoraries and by comosers o the ast through erormance and research In addition to erorming, she also taught iano at Curtis, The Ne School o Music (Temle University), and uilliard, here she develoed one o the earliest courses on music o the Americas in 19 ehrend s catalogue o comositions consists o ust tentyone ieces, ith Lamentation, or viola and iano, being her inal ork beore she gave u comosing The manuscrit sources indicate that she orked on the comosition rom uly to December 19, and she dedicated it to her cousin Edard L Estein, ho as killed November 10, 19, hile serving in the US Army during World War II The ork as irst erormed on February, 199, at a Comosers Forum concert at Columbia University and as ublished in a Comosers Facsimile Edition (CFE) in 195 A Note on the Sources This edition is based on three sources ound in the eanne ehrend Collection at the Free Library o Philadelhia: Source A: ms score (6 ) (reroduction), dated at the end uly December 19 Source : ms score (6 ) on rerograhic aer or the CFE, bearing a coyright date o 195 Source C: ms viola art ( ) on rerograhic aer or the CFE, bearing a coyright date o 195 Source A includes extensive annotations in encil, many o hich are clearly erormance markings, including ingerings in the viola line (additional markings in Source A, including viola cues, suggest that Source A may also have been used by a violist to read rom in erormance) Source A as reroduced rom Source ; hoever, ehrend made urther changes to Source rior to ublishing the 195 CFE, so Source A reresents an earlier state o the ork Source incororates some o the changes notated in encil in source A, and in several areas o Source the aer has been cut out, removing revious notations that remain in Source A; this includes the removal o the original ourmeasure ending, relaced by a ne ivemeasure ending Source also includes a small number o annotations in encil Source C aears to have been reared or the 195 CFE, as it does not contain the same excised areas that aear in Source and as there is no corresonding viola art ith Source A While ublished coies o the CFE are reerenced in other sources, no ublished coies have been located As Source and Source C reresent the later ublished version o the ork, they serve as the rimary sources or this edition All editorial changes have been made ithout comment The editor is grateul to Linda Wood rom the Free Library o Philadelhia or her assistance in rearing this edition Publication has been made ossible by kind ermission o the estate o eanne ehrend David M ynog, editor
Notes 1 ohn Rockell, eanne ehrend, 76, a Pianist; Secialized in Music o Americas, Ne York Times, Aril 15, 1988 She returned to comosing ith the brie, oneandahalminute Festival Fanare: Prelude to The Star Sangled anner, comosed or a estival that she organized in 1959, the Philadelhia Festival o Western Hemishere Music For a ull catalogue o ehrend s music, see Elizabeth Ann Hostetter, eanne ehrend: Pioneer Perormer o American Music, Pianist, Teacher, Musicologist, and Comoser (DMA diss, Arizona State University, 1990), 8 5 Edard L Estein s ather as Leonard Estein, ho had erormed in the viola section o the Philadelhia Orchestra during the 190s; he ould return to lay ith the orchestra beginning in 195 ased on the dates o comosition, ehrend had begun ork on Lamentation rior to Edard L Estein s death, and it is unknon hether the ork as already conceived or viola or hether ehrend selected the instrument in deerence to Leonard Estein Hostetter, 1 5
Viola Lamentation To the Memory o Pvt Edard L Estein (Dec 8, 19 Nov 10, 19) eanne ehrend Edited by David M ynog With Dark Intensity about q = 8 b b b 6 1 b b b b b b b n b b cresc P b b b b b b b b F 18 b P n n 9 ƒ 5 Più mosso q = 10 American Viola Society 015, AVS 05 1
1 7 5 57 b n cresc n b b > b b 6 b b b b n b 67 7 b b b π b n b b b b b b b b n b b b b b b b b b b b n 78 n n b 1 b b b b n b n 5 8 5 n b b n n n F, 87 n n n n 5 cresc cresc ehrend Lamentation Viola
89 b b 9 b b b b b b b n n cresc n Temo I (q = 8) 97 b b b n n n, b ƒ 100 b 10 b 5 b n b 1 iù sostenuto b b 109 116 π rit dolce armly b b b b F b 1 n 1 b 18 ƒ b b n slo 1 dim rit π U ehrend Lamentation Viola
Viola b Lamentation With Dark Intensity about q = 8 To the Memory o Pvt Edard L Estein (Dec 8, 19 Nov 10, 19) b eanne ehrend Edited by David M ynog b Piano 6 b b b b b b b n 6 1 P b b cresc 1 American Viola Society 015, AVS 05
ehrend Lamentation 18 18 F b b b F b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b P b b b n n n P 7 n 7 F
ehrend Lamentation n ƒ b b b b 7 Più mosso q = 10 7 dim
ehrend Lamentation 7 b cresc b b b 7 b cresc n b b n 51 51 n b b > 56 b n 56 n n
ehrend Lamentation 5 60 b b b b 60 b b b b n n b b 6 n b b π b n b 6 b b b b b dim b b [ π] b b b n b b n 69 b b b n b b b b b b b b 69 b bb b bb b b b n b b n b b b b b b n b b bb bb n b
6 ehrend Lamentation 7 b b b b b b b b b n 7 b b b n b b n n bb b b b b n n b b b b b b bb bb n n 78 n n b cresc 78 n b n n b b cresc b b b n b b n b b b n b b b b b b b b n b n n 81 b b b b n b n 5 F 81 b b bb bb n b b b b n b b b b n n 5 5 n n F n n n n
ehrend Lamentation 7 85 n b b n n n n 85 n n cresc n n n n n cresc n n n 88 n n n, 5 b b 88 n nn n n n n bb bb b b b 91 b b n b b b cresc 91 bb bb b b b cresc b b b b b
8 ehrend Lamentation 95 b b n n n b b b n n n, 95 n n bb b b b b n n n b b b 98 Temo I (q = 8) ƒ b 98 ƒ 10 5 b 10 6 6 dim
ehrend Lamentation 9 106 b b b rit iù sostenuto dolce 106 11 11 b b π b b b b 119 armly b F b b b b b n 119 b b
10 ehrend Lamentation 15 15 somberly b b bb b b b b n b b b π b b b ƒ b b b b b b b b 10 n slo 10 > ƒ accel 15 dim rit π U 15 dim π rit u uly December 19
AVS PULICATIONS VIOLA SOLO VIOLA AND PIANO VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA ob Cobert Music or Only One Lonely Viola AVS 08 ohn Duke Suite or Viola Alone AVS 07 Ivan Langstroth Viola Suite AVS 0 Quincy Porter Suite or Viola Alone AVS 008 eong Eun Park Mook Nyum (A Moment o Silence) AVS 09 Frederick Slee Variations on a Hymn Tune or Solo Viola AVS 00 TWO VIOLAS ob Cobert Three Moods or To Violas AVS 00 Felix Mendelssohnartholdy Canon or To Violas AVS 00 Scott Slain Caricious AVS 01 THREE VIOLAS VIOLA ENSEMLE (FOUR OR MORE) S ach Sinonia rom the Cantata: Gleichie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel ällt AVS 005 Léo Delibes La Paix, rom Coélia, or Solo Viola and Viola Quartet AVS 0a Matthias Durst Adagio or Four Violas AVS 001 Felix Mendelssohnartholdy Adagio rom String Sinonia VIII AVS 011a Hendrik Waelut Cantabile or Four Violas AVS 018 Max von Weinzierl Nachtstück ür Violen, o AVS 009 eanne ehrend Lamentation or Viola and Piano AVS 05 lanche lood arcarolle or Viola and Piano AVS 00 Léo Delibes La Paix, rom Coélia, or Viola and Piano AVS 0 Arthur Foote Melody or Viola and Piano, o a AVS 015 Peter Racine Fricker Fantasy or Viola and Piano, o AVS 0 Carl Fuerstner To Pieces or Viola and Piano AVS 01 Henry Holden Huss Sonata Movement or Viola and Piano AVS 0 Edna Frida Pietsch Andante Cantabile or Viola and Piano AVS 0 Quincy Porter Seed Etude or Viola and Piano AVS 007 Ferdinand Praeger Elegy or Viola and Piano AVS 01 Gustav Strube Regrets or Viola and Piano AVS 010 Theodore Thomas Divertissement or Viola and Piano AVS 006 Louise Lincoln Kerr Etude AVS 00 VIOLIN AND VIOLA N Pychoski Peretual Canon AVS 017 Cecil Forsyth The Dark Road or Viola and String Orchestra AVS 0 W A Mozart Princial Viola Part or Sinonia Concertante, K 6, Extended Scordatura Edition AVS 019 Princial Viola Part or Sinonia Concertante, K 6, Scordatura Edition AVS 019a G P Telemann Concerto or To Violettas, TWV 5:G Critical Edition Including Alternative Scordatura Solo Parts AVS 05 MIXED ENSEMLES S ach Chorale: Ich, dein betrubtes Kind, or Sorano, Viola obligata, and Continuo rom the Cantata Mein Herze schimmt im lut AVS 01 Ergieße dich reichlich,du göttliche Quelle, Aria or Tenor, Viola, and Continuo rom the Cantata Wo soll ich liehen hin AVS 01 Hochgelobter Gottessohn, Aria or Alto, Viola, and Continuo rom the Cantata leib bei uns, denn es ill Abend erden AVS 09 Sinonia rom the Cantata: Gleichie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel ällt AVS 005 Michael Colgrass Revisions to Variations or Four Drums and Viola AVS 016 Felix Mendelssohnartholdy Adagio rom String Sinonia VIII AVS 011 Quincy Porter Little Trio (Suite in E Maor) or Flute, Violin, and Viola AVS 06 htt://americanviolasocietyorg/resources/scoresh