String Quartet - intermediate

SKU: BT.DHP-1064034-070

Arranged by Gunter Van Rompaey and Hans Aerts. Pop & Rock. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2006. 40 pages. De Haske Publications #DHP 1064034-070. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1064034-070).

ISBN 9789043124720. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Traditionally a string quartet will not readily take on pop music. But times are changing and the classic quartet line-up proves suitable for beautiful arrangements of contemporary songs as well. This book features three hits from past decades, The Rose (Bette Midler) with its simple, pure sounds and underlying harmonies, La Solitudine (Laura Pausini) - compelling and with a hidden energy and finally Wonderwall (Oasis), an unexpected choice, with its persistent rhythmic background. To allow the string quartet to play together with optional guitar or keyboard, chord symbols have been added in the score. These songs - which certainly have a passionate andromantic ring to them - are ideal for receptions, weddings and other festive occasions. (Position 1-5)

Drie bekende songs in geslaagde bewerkingen voor strijkkwartet: Pop Ballads for String Quartet bewijst dat het kan. Om het strijkkwartet de mogelijkheid te bieden samen te spelen met gitaar of keyboards zijn akkoordsymbolentoegevoegd in de partituur. Deze songs vol passie en romantiek zijn ideaal voor het opluisteren van recepties, bruiloften en andere feestelijke gelegenheden. (Position 1-5)

Ein Buch für alle Streicher, die anstatt der klassischen Literatur für Streichquartett auch einmal etwas ganz Modernes, Unterhaltsames spielen wollen. Hans Aerts und Gunter Van Rompaey bearbeiteten für diese Ausgabe drei bekannte Pop- Titel für zwei Violinen, Viola und Cello. Akkordsymbole für eine Begleitung von Keyboard oder Gitarre sind ebenfalls enthalten.(Position 1-5)

Ce recueil contient trois succès des dernières décennies : The Rose, avec ses sonorités simples et épurées et ses harmonies demi cachées ; La Solitudine, l‘énergie dissimulée et enfin Wonderwall, un choix inattendu dont le tapis sonore est continuellement rythmé. Des symboles d’accords ont été ajoutés sur la partition afin de permettre au quatuor cordes de se faire accompagner d’une guitare ou clavier (partie optionnelle). (Position 1-5)

Questa pubblicazione permetter ai giovani musicisti di cominciare a suonare in gruppo. Il quartetto d’archi è da sempre la formazione per eccellenza, equilibrata e potente nell’espressione. Anche la musica in stile pop, arrangiata per l’occasione da Hans Aerts, si adatta a questo tipo di organico. L’importante è saper ascoltare la parte degli altri per inserire il proprio ritmo nell’insieme. (Position 1-5).

(Mix and Match Quartets for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Keyboard). By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. String Quartet, Woodwind Quartet, Piano Quintet, Mixed Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, Saxophone Quartet. For 2 Flutes/Oboes/Violins, Viola, Cello/Bassoon. Quartets. Includes a set of four parts for string quartet (Part 1 for Flute or Oboe or Violin - LR.73111, Part 2 for Flute or Oboe or Violin - LR.73121, Part 3 for Viola - LR.73131, Part 4 for Cello or Bassoon - LR.73141). Classical. Intermediate. Set of 4 parts. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing

By Z Randall Stroope. String quartet, oboe, conductor score. Octavo. Published by Heritage Music Press.

From the Idyll At Twilight. Composed by Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Classical. Score and parts. Op. 39. 8 pages. Schott Music #ED 20342. Published by Schott Music

Quartettino. (Parts). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Masterworks; Part(s); Quartet; String Quartet. Faber Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork. Published by Faber Music

(Baroque, Classical and Romantic Favorites, Wedding Music). Composed by Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. Piano quartet. For Violin, Flute, Oboe, Cello, Bassoon, Piano. Music for Three series. Classical / Baroque. Intermediate/Advanced. Set of 4 parts. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing

Baroque, Classical and Romantic Favorites, Wedding Music. Composed by Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. Music for Three series. Classical / Baroque. Set of 3 parts. Last Resort Music Publishing #50100. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing

(String Quartet). By Mohammed Fairouz. For String Quartet (Score and Parts). Peermusic Classical. 10 pages. Peermusic #70047-759. Published by Peermusic

For string orchestra (88555) with optional 3rd Violin/Viola TC (3) and piano. Standard string orchestra (88555) with optional 3rd Violin/Viola TC (3) and piano. Playground String Orchestra series. Grade 1. Score and parts. Published by Kendor Music Inc

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Quartet. For 2 violins, viola, and cello. Polka. Set of parts. Standard Notation. 15 (violin 1), 15 (violin 2), 15 (viola), 15 (cello) pages

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Quartet. For 2 violins, viola, and cello. Swedish, Dance. Set of parts. Standard Notation. 19 (violin 1), 19 (violin 2), 19 (viola), 17 (cello) pages

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-775-4

Composed by Alex Freeman. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-775-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-775-4).

ISBN 9790550117754.

Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement.

Duration: c. 13'

This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized).


American-Finnish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality.

His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music.