Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440505S

Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Full score. With Standard notation. 37 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40505S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440505S).

UPC: 680160594603.

The most straightforward and shortest of any of my string quartets to date, the sixth employs only two thematic gestures which are used, perhaps obsessively, throughout: (a) brief melodic lines formed principally of sevenths, and (b) an ascending scale. The formal design is born out of the continual combining, interweaving and juxtaposition of these two elements, which collect themselves into two movements played without pause: the first predominantly slow and pensive, the second rhythmic and driving. Quartet No. 6 is approximately 16 minutes in duration. The score was commissioned by the Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet, four extremely talented young musicians with whom I performed at the Aspen, Colorado, Music Festival, and is dedicated to my wife, Elizabeth on the occasion of our fifty years together. The first movement is written in memory of my father-in-law Howard Deischer (1907 - 2005), who died during the course of composing. The work was completed in April of 2005 in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida. -- Sydney Hodkinson.
The most straightforward and shortest of any of my string quartets to date, the sixth employs only two thematic gestures which are used, perhaps obsessively, throughout: (a) brief melodic lines formed principally of sevenths, and (b) an ascending scale.  The formal design is born out of the continual combining, interweaving and juxtaposition of these two elements, which collect themselves into two movements played without pause: the first predominantly slow and pensive, the second rhythmic and driving.Quartet No. 6 is approximately 16 minutes in duration.  The score was commissioned by the Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet, four extremely talented young musicians with whom I performed at the Aspen, Colorado, Music Festival, and is dedicated to my wife, Elizabeth on the occasion of our fifty years together.  The first movement is written in memory of my father-in-law Howard Deischer (1907 – 2005), who died during the course of composing.  The work was completed in April of 2005 in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida.— Sydney Hodkinson.

(String Quartet Score and Parts). By Howard Blake. Arranged by Howard Blake. For String Quartet (Score & Parts). Music Sales America. Softcover. Chester Music #CH80432. Published by Chester Music

String quartet - Moderately Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193417175

Composed by Howard Skempton. String Quartets. Score. 12 pages. Duration 9'. Oxford University Press #9780193417175. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193417175).

ISBN 9780193417175. 12 x 8 inches.

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appealing modern addition to the genre.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14017272

Composed by Jean Joubert. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV361050. Published by Music Sales (HL.14017272).

8.5x11.75x0.3 inches.

Composed during the summer of 1986, Joubert's third quartet is the second in order of composition of three works composed specially for performance this month as part of the celebrations connected with his sixtieth birthday. The quartet is dedicated to Howard Ferguson who was my composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music from 1947 to 1950.