21 character duets for pupil and teacher. Par COBB CELIA. Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a wide range of moods, styles and playing techniques, and young string players will enjoy exploring and performing them with their teachers. The duets in Cool Beans are designed to encourage excellence in both technical and performance skills, as well as build confidence in ensemble playing from an early stage. Each book comes with a separate pupil?s part, for ease of reading, as well as a full score. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Recueil / 2 Violoncelles

Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. MOTET is a sober cool treatise on rhythm and statics depicted in a Gothic crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir monks’ processions and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today. Poul Ruders 1979

Christmas Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of classic hits with upbeat arrangements by Pam Wedgwood for Cello with Piano Accompaniment. These arrangements feature cool syncopation funky riffs and smooth stylish tunes. Get into the Christmas groove as you cruise from Blues to Rock to Jazz!The solo cello part is also included on a separate insert.

Henry Mancini's most recognized theme is a jazz classic that string players will love with this new arrangement from Robert Longfield. Great riffs cool harmonies and a spot for a jazz violin solo (written version included) make it a super chart for string quartet.

String Quartet-Debussy?s new string quartet received a very cool reception at its première in Paris in December 1893 performed by the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. The critics were upset by its unusual harmonies and orchestral sounds and the musicianswho were later presented with it considered it ?unplayable?. Nevertheless the work was able to establish itself in the years that followed and today belongs to the core chamber music repertoire. The work was published in 1894 as?1er Quatuor?; showing that the composer was at least toying with the idea of writing another such work at this time yet he never did fulfil this promise.

String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: 'hoch im Himmel gesungen ...' (”High singing in heaven…”). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins – like my work ”Schnee” – sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and ”movement andjoy”-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longer in the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. ”Dark heavy and earthy” is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like ”babbling” music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckyly after twenty years – it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen

Après 'Jazz Suite' pour violoncelle solo (Schott, CB 224), le violoncelliste italien et musicien de jazz Lucio Amanti explore les possibilités de la musique de jazz sur le violoncelle dans cette sonate avec accompagnement de piano. Il veut offrir de nouveaux moyens et de styles pour violoncellistes issus de la tradition classique. C'est pourquoi cette pièce est aussi basée sur ses propres improvisations unis sous la forme d'une sonate. Le résultat est un effet de croisement intéressant entre le jazz et la forme sonate traditionnelle, une pièce de concert enrichissante avec de nombreux personnages et des ingrédients différents: un peu de be-bop, une touche de latin et de tango, du jazz cool, un soupçon de Stravinsky et bien plus encore. Tous ces éléments sont traités de manière égale et faire de cette sonate un morceau de jazz adapté à la salle de concert et le club de jazz aussi bien. Un ajout intéressant au répertoire pour l'esprit ouvert violoncellistes. / Violoncelle Et Piano / 56 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Avancé / Partition

Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. MOTET is a sober cool treatise on rhythm and statics depicted in a Gothic crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir monks’ processions and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today. Poul Ruders 1979

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach would almost certainly have approved of this string quartet arrangement of his famous concerto for violin and oboe (BWV 1060) by John Cooley as he was well known for making arrangements of his own works, according to instrumental resources at his disposal. Bach himself made an arrangement of this piece for two solo harpsichords and string orchestra. It is quite ?notey? but straightforward and accessible technically to reasonably good players as there are no tricky rhythms or high notes. As well as this Bach concerto arrangement, SJ Music has also published John Cooley?s arrangements of Mozart?s piano duets K497 and K521 for piano trio and piano quartet respectively, Bach?s organ Passacaglia and Fugue for string quartet, and one of Purcell?s trio sonatas for string trio. / Date parution : 2022-03-16/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

This work composed in 1878/79 alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was partly prompted by the successfulperformance of Franck?s youthful piano trios at the ?Société nationale de musique? (founded in 1871) and probably also by a composition competition for works using this instrumental combination whose deadline Franck then went onto miss. The Quintet was received coolly at its first performance in January 1880 and it was performed just a few more times during the composer?s lifetime. It was only in the 20th century that audiences and critics came torecognise this work as a major milestone in the history of French chamber music and it now adorns the Henle catalogue in a new Urtext edition.

Arranged From The Piano Duet K521-This Piano quartet started life as Mozart's Piano duet K521. John Cooley's arrangement of it for Piano quartet is very successful and brings this lovely piece into the hands of string players.

From Concerto For Violin and Oboe-This excellent String Quartet arrangement of Bach's much-loved concerto for Violin and Oboe is straightforward and accessible technically to reasonably good players as there are no tricky rhythms or high notes. SJ Music has also published John Cooley's arrangements of Mozart's Piano duets K497 and K521 for Piano trio (T1988-4) and Piano quartet (Q1995-2) respectively Bach's Organ Passacaglia and Fugue for String Quartet (Q2001-1) and one of Purcell's trio sonatas for string trio.(T2005-1)

Instrumental Play-Along-15 songs from the timeless children's cartoon series arranged for solo instrumentalists with a great accompaniment CD. The CD includes the Amazing Slow Downer software so instrumentalists can use the disks in their computer to slow down the tempo without changing the pitch while they practise.

51 Traditional Pieces. Par . Cellist Ben Davis presents a collection of pieces for solo cello drawn from the rich tradition of Irish folk music. The collection covers a range of styles including Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes and Marches. The volume includes notes on the tunes, and is accompanied by recordings of all tunes. German and French translations of all texts are available as PDF downloads from the Schott Music website. Suitable for players of grades 3-8. / Niveau : Intermédiaire-Avancé / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Recueil / Violoncelle