| Quartetstart String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] - Easy Faber Music Limited
(Original Repertoire for Beginner String Quartets). By Mary Cohen. Part(s); Quar...(+)
(Original Repertoire for Beginner String Quartets). By Mary Cohen. Part(s); Quartet; Score; String Quartet. Faber Edition. Published by Faber Music
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| Christmas Quartetstart String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] - Beginner Faber Music Limited
(Favorite Carols Arranged for Beginner String Quartets). Arranged by Mary Cohen....(+)
(Favorite Carols Arranged for Beginner String Quartets). Arranged by Mary Cohen. Part(s); Quartet; Score; String Quartet. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. Published by Faber Music
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| Michael Nyman: String Quartet No. 1 Score String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Chester
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14023669 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music ...(+)
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14023669 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 1993. 48 pages. Chester Music #CH60850. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023669). ISBN 9780711977570. 9.0x12.0x0.155 inches. There are two primary ideas behind this composition, the first being to create and almost orchestral chamber music, the idea for this coming from a performance of the Grosse Fuge performed by the Arditti Quartet. The second idea was to excercise the impressive and oppresive history of the string quartet by making the work a compendium of quotations from quartet repertoire. Influence from Schoenberg can be heard in chromatic, harmonic sequences and modal/diatonic varioations are also actively displayed within the piece. The quartet is written with amplification in mind and it is the composer's preference that it is performed in this way. String Quartet No.1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart. It was commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them on 23 September 1985, Warsaw. Duration 26 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. $33.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major, op. 11 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Set of Parts] Barenreiter
By Josef Suk (1874-1935). Edited by Zdenek Nouza. For string quartet. This editi...(+)
By Josef Suk (1874-1935). Edited by Zdenek Nouza. For string quartet. This edition: Urtext edition. Set of parts. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag
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| String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (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. $38.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720). UPC: 680160573042. 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. $53.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3: Gaia String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441387S Composed by Stacy Garrop. ...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441387S Composed by Stacy Garrop. Classical. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed Summer 2008. 56 pages. Duration 31 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41387S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441387S). UPC: 680160585694. Having performed Garrop's String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels with much success, it is only natural that the Biava Quartet would handle the premiere of String Quartet No.3: Gaia. In an email interview with Pittsburgh New Music Net, Biava violist Mary Persin says, in part, We received many very enthusiastic responses from audience members who were struck by the interesting form, as well as the sonorities created by using a good deal of dissonance as well as harmonics. Watch for a recording by the Biava Quartet to be made available soon. For advanced performers. Duration: 32' 30. $39.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Carol Stringfest Cello - Beginner Faber Music Limited
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Cello). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Cello....(+)
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Cello). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Cello. Part(s); String Ensemble - Mixed. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. 4 pages. Published by Faber Music
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| Carol Stringfest Viola - Beginner Faber Music Limited
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Viola). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Viola....(+)
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Viola). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Viola. Part(s); String Ensemble - Mixed. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. Published by Faber Music
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| Carol Stringfest Violin - Beginner Faber Music Limited
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Violin). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Violi...(+)
Carol Stringfest (Beginning Violin). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Beginning Violin. Part(s); String Ensemble - Mixed. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. Published by Faber Music
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| Carol Stringfest 2 Violas (duet) Faber Music Limited
(Viola Duet). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Viola Duet. Part(s); String Ensemble -...(+)
(Viola Duet). Arranged by Mary Cohen. For Viola Duet. Part(s); String Ensemble - Mixed. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. Published by Faber Music
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| Carol Stringfest Piano Accompaniment [Score] - Beginner Faber Music Limited
(Piano Acc. Score Only). Arranged by Mary Cohen. Score; String Ensemble - Mixed....(+)
(Piano Acc. Score Only). Arranged by Mary Cohen. Score; String Ensemble - Mixed. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Elementary. 24 pages. Published by Faber Music
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| Italian Songs and Arias of the 17th and 18th Century, Set 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Alfred Publishing
Voice and String Quartet SKU: AP.36-M216291 Composed by Various. Edited b...(+)
Voice and String Quartet SKU: AP.36-M216291 Composed by Various. Edited by Mary Sue Hyatt and Translations by Giovanna Jackson. Arranged by Albert Vinci, Translations by Giovanna Jackson, and ed. Mary Sue Hyatt. Performance Music Ensemble; Voice and String Quartet. Master Vocal Series. Score and Part(s). Alfred Music #36-M216291. Published by Alfred Music (AP.36-M216291). UPC: 660355117718. English. While the song text remains in Italian, loving translations of these songs have been created by Giovanna Jackson to aid in a singers interpretation.Three songs are included in this second set: Il mio bel foco (Marcello); Se tu m'ami, se sospiri (Pergolesi); Come raggio di sol (Caldara). Each song has been arranged by Albert C. Vinci and edited by Mary Sue Hyatt to be performed with a string quartet or string orchestra. Both the string quartet and string orchestra versions are available from the publisher. These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months. $14.95 - See more - Buy online | | |
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