SKU: BT.DHP-1115173-401

ISBN 9789043139298. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Are you looking for a duet book full of surprises? Then Klezmatic Duets is just the right book for you! It is available for violin, viola and cello and each book can be combined with each other, making these truly flexible duets. The book contains a selection of well-known traditional melodies which are very different in character. hese skilful arrangements allow violinists and viola players to play within the first position. Cello players play up to the fourth position.

Typisch voor klezmer is de zeer expressieve melodie die zowel heel opgewekt kan klinken als tegelijk melancholisch of weemoedig. Klezmatic Duets is dan ook een veelzijdige uitgave: tien bekende en zeer verschillende klezmermelodieënzijn bewerkt voor twee violen, twee altviolen of twee cellos's. De verschillende uitgaven zijn onderling te combineren.

Klezmatic Duets for Cellos ist ein vielseitiges Buch: Zehn bekannte, sehr unterschiedliche Klezmermelodien wurden dafu?r als Duette fu?r zwei Celli bearbeitet; aus diesem Buch kann aber auch gemeinsam mit anderen Streichern gespielt werden, welche die entsprechende Ausgabe fu?r Violine oder Viola besitzen. Geiger mu?ssen fu?r diese Stu?cke nur die erste Lage beherrschen; für Celiisten geht es bis zur vierten Lage.

Klezmatic Duets for Cellos est un recueil aux multiples facettes : dix mélodies klezmer connues et de styles différents ont été arrangées pour être jouées par deux violoncellistes, mais également en duo avec un autre instrumentiste cordes, tel quâ??un violoniste ou un altiste possédant le recueil approprié. En tant que violoncelliste, vous devrez cependant maîtriser les quatre premières positions.

Klezmatic Duets for Violins è una pubblicazione che può essere utilizzata in diverse combinazioni: 10 note melodie klezmer sono state arrangiate per due violoncelli. Si può però suonare assieme ad un altro musicista che ha a disposizione la versione per violine o viola. Per lâ??esecuzione di questi brani è richiesta solo la padronanza della prima posizione.

SKU: GS.BSG4PROMAR-P

8.5 x 11 inches.

30 energetic pieces to get your audience motivated, and their toes tapping. All four parts share the interesting melodic bits, and the relentless rhythms that provide the energy to forge ahead. You will enjoy sharing some old favorites, like Mendelssohn's Wedding March, Wagner's Bridal March, and for you Alfred Hitchcock fans, Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette. This collection also includes works by Sousa, Frederick II, Joplin, Mozart, Schubert, etc.

SKU: BT.MUSM570205257

English.

For String Quartet. Published 1976. First performance: Medici Quartet, York, 12th June 1976.

SKU: PR.16400272S

UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.