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fiddling WNES

Composer
Horváth Balázs
Original / Hungarian title
fiddling WNES
Foreign language / English title
fiddling WNES
Subtitle
For viola
Year of composition
2026
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
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Movements, parts
Prologue (to be performed always at the beginning before any mouvement)
a) Rullstråk I (Sweden) – based on a fast Swedish arpeggio and accentuation technique
b) Hardingfele (Norway) – based on a slow Norwegian melodic and double stop sound
c) Rullstråk II (Sweden) – based on a Swedish arpeggio technique
d) Huayno (Ands) – based on a ??? scaling and accented playing technique
e) Bluegrass I (USA) – based on a fast American boing and accentuation technique with some noises
f) Bluegrass II (USA) – based on an American double stop technique with accents and open strings
g) Kamancheh I (Iran/Persia) – based on a Iranian or Persian melodic string music with percussions and glissandi as well
h) Kamancheh II (Iran/Persia) – based on a Iranian or Persian melodic string music with percussions and microtones
i) Morin Khuur (Mongolia) – based on a Mongolian throat singing and overtone playing one a single-string instrument
j) Erhu (China) – based on a Chinese single string melodic music
k) Wandidi (Kenya) – based on a Kenyan single string melodic music with humming the same melody in kind of unison
l) Umrhube / Uhadi / Ndingidi (South Africa & Uganda) – based on a South African and Ugandian metric music and noisy string techniques on one stringed instruments
Epilogue (to be performed always at the end after the actual last movement)
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Composed: 2025-2026

Duration: 2 to 20 min.

The piece presents many popular fiddling technics from all around the world (from West to Nort, East and South). Any number of movements may be performed, since each movement can be connected to any other one. (Balázs Horváth)