Ianarius for solo violin
2018 Duration: ca. 5'
Daniel Godsil
Our name for the month of January is derived from that of the Roman god Janus: the two-faced god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. I composed this piece in late January, in a simultaneously looking-backward-looking-forward mood. I had recently written a lot of difficult, high-energy music, and I wanted to step away from that mode and make this violin solo much simpler in style. Looking back to my musical beginnings, I devised much of the harmonic material by simply putting my fingers on a violin fingerboard in cool shapes or configurations to see what sound combinations might result—much as I did as a 12-year-old beginning guitarist. 12-year-old metal-head-me also thought that the title track of Metallica's “And Justice For All...� was exactly what ancient Roman music sounded like (36-year-old-me still sort of thinks that), so this piece is a sort of homage to and a reworking or re-imagining of the Metallica song. -D.G.
Ianarius for solo violin
+ + b˙™ Œ Œ ‰ nœ ˙ Œ n œ> >
Stark; austere q = 52
I. vln
Daniel Godsil (2018)
3 &4
…* j‰ œ
senza vib.
b˙
poco vib.
b˙™
∑
˙™
f
** ossia: play the l.h. pizz with r.h.
& n œ –– Œ Œ bb œœœ ——
&
20
˙˙ ™™
& #˙
25
œœ … b ˙ J ‰
poco agitato
arco
∑ œ
œ
œœ–
0
l.v.
Œ œ
nœ œ
œœ
Cold (l'istesso tempo)
& Œ
‰ œj œ
∑
∏∏∏∏∏∏∏
∏∏∏∏∏∏∏∏
∑
arco
∑
b b œœ Œ Œ
f
#œ
> #œ n œ
j– & œœ ‰ ‰ # œ>œ——
pizz. med. arp.
∑
∑
f
5
œjœ ‰ œ J
œœ
# œœ b œ œ œ œ œ poco
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∏∏∏∏∏∏∏∏∏
slow arp.
f
15
med. arp.
∏∏∏∏∏
& b œ– & # œœœ– Œ Œ — >—
8
œ œ… J ‰ Œ
f poss. p
* "whip" crescendo; stop the sound abruptly at rests
pizz. fast arp.
senza vib.
**
b˙˙
œœ
sub.
sub.
œ– Œ
˙˙ ™
Œ
∑
œ œ # œœ b œ œ poco
e=e
83
3
o œ 3 &8
30
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Unvarying, uniform: every note played the exact same
f
sub.
sim.
o oœ œo œ 38 R≈ & ‰ œ J >+
46
&
œo
™ & b b Ȯ ™
52
p
b b Ȯ
∑
œo
∑
œo œo œo œo œo R≈ R≈ R≈
f sub.
sim.
poss.
or o œ œ ≈ ‰ ‰ ≈ œ R >+
œo R ≈
Frozen
or œ ≈ œo œo R≈ ‰
Oœ Oœ
e=e
43
∑
Warm
#˙ ™
∑
Œ
˙
poss.
Ȯ b b Oœ
Ȯ ™™
+ +3 + b ˙ ™ Œ Œ ‰ nœ n œ œ *
II. o
f poss.
œ œ… J ‰ Œ f
* ossia: play the l.h. pizz with r.h.
59
Ritualistic q = 56
& b˙ ˙
p
64
& œ œ
œ
‰ œj œ
œ œ œ ˙
Œ
Œ # ˙ <n> œ œ Œ
p
#œ œ œ
Œ
Œ
Œ
∑
œ
<n> ˙˙ œ— Œ
o Œ Œ
#œ Œ
43 # œ b œ œ
œ
p
poco a poco accel.
Œ bœ œ
44 Œ n b ˙˙ œ œ œ œ
A little faster q = 66 arco
Œ
œœ ˙
#œ
75
∏∏∏∏∏∏
& ˙
œœ œ œ œ
& # œ # œ œœ cresc.
&# œœ Œ n œ>œ
#œ
˙
… Œ
p sub.
œ
& œ # œ # n œœ
j œ œ # œ # œ j
∏∏∏∏∏∏
œ Œ <n> œ #˙ Œ
pizz. fast arp.
69
4
nœ
œ b˙
‰ j Œ nœ – # œ œ œœ — p l.v.
f
p
molto
œ … J ‰
molto
molto
œ œ
85
& œ bœ œ œ œ œ œ p
&
U ∑
˙
# ˙˙ ™™
j‰ œœ # ˙˙
˙˙
p
molto
&# œ – # œœ—– Œ n œ> —
pizz. med. arp.
#œ > Œ # œœ n œ>
Œ
f
œ œ œ œ œ
bœ p
Tempo I (q = 52)
∑
∏∏∏∏∏∏∏∏∏
93
f
Œ
˙ ˙
& # n œœ n n œœ
#œ œ #œ
Œ
Πo
∑
˙™ # œ #œ Œ Œ
poco sul pont.
Œ b˙œ p
& n œ –– Œ œ b b œœ ——
slow arp.
∏∏∏∏∏∏∏
∏∏∏∏∏
œ
∏∏∏∏∏
bœ
∏∏∏∏∏∏
& nœ œ & & b œœ œœ bœ
81
Œ
As fast as possible ossia: I 98
&
U ∑
lunga
arco #œ 0 œ œ
œ RÔ
II II
bœ œ
III III
0
œ RÔ
bœ
œ RÔ
#œ
IV 0
œ RÔ
#œ
œ RÔ
bœ
√ ∑
lunga
nœ RÔ >
# œ>
b œ> —
1/28-2/12/2018, Davis, CA