Cowboy Songs-Score with 5 parts (V I VII Va (V III).Cowboy Songs are old but ever popular tunes from the pioneering days of the Wild West.This edition presents these songs in simple arrangements for String Quartet or String Orchestra and form an ideal introduction to ensemble playing. An alternative third Violin part may be substituted for the Viola.With such favourites as ?Home on the Range? ?Arkansas Traveler? and ?The Yellow Rose of Texas? these Cowboy Songs will be a hit with young String players.

as performed by Michael Jackson-Beat It is one of Michael Jackson?s most popular songs. Seen by many as a rock song Beat It was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the ?100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time? due to the notable inclusion of guitarist Eddie van Halen and was also awarded two Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 1984 ceremony. Since its release the song has been covered by various artists such as Fall Out Boy Fergie and most recently Anthony Gröger who has made this energetic arrangement for string quartet.

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