String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14023668

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 1993. 22 pages. Chester Music #CH60865. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023668).

ISBN 9780711932975. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.

String Quartet No.3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins, for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.

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.

Brass Quintet

SKU: HL.14023621

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 1993. 28 pages. Chester Music #CH60999. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023621).

ISBN 9780711956285. 8.25x11.75x0.11 inches.

Commissioned by the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble for first performance at the 1991 Cambridge Festival. Duration 12 minutes. Set of parts is available for sale. Scored for 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba.

Composed by Michael Nyman. For solo piano. From the motion picture "The Piano". Format: piano solo songbook. With fingerings, black and white photos and introductory text. Movies and 20th century. 32 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Chester Music.

Violin (Violin)

SKU: HL.14023674

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1989. 16 pages. Chester Music #CH60852. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023674).

ISBN 9780711932807. 9.0x12.0x0.082 inches.

A transcription of a work for small orchestra (the score for Peter Greenaway's film A Zed & Two Noughts) scored for solo violin. Composed and first performed in Paris in 1986. Edited by Alexander Balanescu.

Vocal and Piano

SKU: HL.14023648

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. TV-Film-Musical-Show. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2001. Chester Music #CH61413. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023648).

ISBN 9780711968172.

Composed for Yorkshire TV's series 'Titch', arranged for Voice and Piano. Text by Pat Hutchins.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14023617

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1993. 8 pages. Chester Music #CH61350. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023617).

ISBN 9780711968882. 9.0x12.0x0.059 inches.

The arrangement for string quartet was made at the request of Alexander Balanescu for the Bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991. It was first performed by the Balanescu Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1991. Duration 3 minutes. A set of parts is available for sale.

(for Soprano Saxophone and Piano). By Michael Nyman. For Piano, Soprano Saxophone. Music Sales America. Post-1900. 34 pages. Chester Music #CH61078. Published by Chester Music