Concerto in A minor in the Hungarian Style, Op. 21

Key: A minor, D minor, F# minor, A Major 

Time Signature: 4/4, 2/4

Range: G3 – E6

Tempo: Andante Sostenuto, Allegro moderato,

Form: ABCA’B’C’

*No separate movements, but tempos, time signatures and themes change with short interludes. Then the themes return shortened, in different keys, with melodic  and harmonic variations and without interludes.

Left Hand

• 3rd position
• 1 natural harmonic in 1st position
• 4 Quad-stops – all fingered; no open strings; (2 arco; 2 pizz)
• 1 Triple-stop
• Key changes
• Accidentals in both positions and throughout the piece.
• Ends in A Major

Bowing

• Retake down-bows
• Accented detaché
• 2 note slurs – slur starts on a weak beat and slurs to a strong beat (both eighth notes and sixteenth note patterns.)
• Rapid detaché 16th note passages
• Slurred 16th note arpeggios across 4 strings.
• 2 Pizzicato chords
• Arco quad-stop, 1 triple-stop
• Sustained Martele

Rhythm

• Some syncopation