Still: Festive Overture

Candidate #5: Festive overture

Possibility of #ViolaFail: Moderate to High, due to visual messiness

I played this several years ago, and the handwritten part, along with a dot on every note, plus the divisi, drove me crazy. Again, I had to put in too much mental energy and concentration to play a passage that wasn’t difficult.

Here’s my version, written on two staves, and formatted so that you can insert this part into the “physical/real” part. Even if you don’t play off of this insert, practicing the passage written out will be much easier, and then perhaps the cluttered part won’t matter as much.

Click on the image to download the pdf.