Standard Deviation for violin

justinmerrittstandard deviation for violin

NOTES ON THE PROGRAMStandard Deviation begins with a slow, senza misura introduction in which the violinist must stubbornly hold a drone D while balancing a free improvisatory line on the outer strings. The second movement keeps the drone idea intact, but this time the drone is a very fast rhythmic 16th-note pulse (usually on an open G) chased from above by heavy, syncopated gestures. The third movement pays homage to the contrapuntal writing in Bach’s solo string music. It is basically a series of increasingly complex canons. The final movement is a wildly virtuosic display with a simple motive at its heart.

A standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of random errors about the mean value. In each movement, some central idea remains stubbornly fixed, while chaos surrounds.

-notes by the composer

“… the highlight of

the year came Nov. 9

with Justin Merritt's

Five Preludes for

piano…” -Peter

Schimpf, Bloomington Independent

premiered byBenjamin Sung

In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn. 1975) was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask. He is also the winner of a host of other awards including the 2008-09 Copland Award, the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Prize for River of Blood, and the 2006 Polyphonos Prize

He received his Bachelors from Trinity University and

his Masters and Doctorate from Indiana University. H e s t u d i e d composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, C l a u d e B a k e r, Timothy Kramer, Don F r e u n d , a n d e l e c t ro n i c a n d computer music with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at St. Olaf College. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife Yuedong and their children Cullen Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang Qinghe.

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for Benjamin Sung

Standard Deviationfor violin solo

I. Justin Merritt

Copyright 2007 © Justin Merritt (ASCAP)Published by Moon East

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