Violin Sonatina in A, First Movement

This sonatina is based on a piano and violin work written earlier . My purpose was something that I could play both technically (being a denizen of Suzuki Book One land) and solo, there not being a pianist readily available. The middle section has been rewritten completely since the duet version relies on interplay between the piano and violin. The stepwise half notes, rising and falling, are from the opening two notes and the figures in bars 7, 14, and 15. The recap is in A exclusively; no need pedagogically to focus as much on D. The final bars went though a lot of writing-playing-revising. At one point, the penultimate bar was quarter note E5-D5-E5-E4, then E5-B4-E5-E4, then dropped all together because the quarters were too slow. That seemed to end too abruptly, so the measure was added back in but with the eighth note figure from bar 40 extended and ending on A4, which was a bit lame and anti-climactic. The final form works best, perhaps because it mirrors the opening rise from A4 to A5.