SKU: LM.JJ08675
ISBN 9790230808675.
Polyphonie - Monodie - Tympanum - Dechant - Hymne.
SKU: JK.09172
Children's hymn arrangement for string quartet. Perfect for Mother's Day. Includes instrumental parts for violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, and optional bass. (previously listed under #01217)Composer: Jeanne P. Lawler Arranger: Robert P. Manookin Lyricist: Transcribed by Richard William-Smith Difficulty: Medium.
SKU: HL.14023298
ISBN 9788759871591. English.
Per Norgard 's Gennem Torne / Through Thorns (2003) Harp Concerto No. 2 - Passage for Harp Solo with Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet. Premiered by Tine Rehling (Harp) and the Esbjerg Ensemble, conducted by Kaisa Roose at the Concert Hall of the Western Jutland Academy of Music, Esbjerg, 28th January 2004. Programme Note THROUGH THORNS has a duration of about 20 minutes, in one continuous movement, thus the subtitle passage. The work is scored for harp solo, flute, clarinet and string quartet. The title is borrowed from the lines from an old Virgin Mary Hymn: Mary wanders through thorns, a hymn which ends with the following line: then roses grew forth amongst thethorns. I only came across the poem after finishing the composition, the passage of which is a journey of sometimes dramatic events, concluding with a rose-blooming, as does the hymn. For THROUGH THORNS to borrow its title from a Virgin Mary Hymn has to do with the musical material and current of the piece, which brings motives from an earlier choral piece of mine, FLOS UT ROSA (Latin for a flower like a rose), and the rose in question is of course the one which grew forth when the Virgin Mary gave birth to the Infant Jesus in a hitherto unheard-of fashion, a NOVA GENITURA (new birth), which is the title of another work of mine that also derives its material from my original rose-melody from 1975. THROUGH THORNS is dedicated to Tine Rehling, and together with her I have tried to expand the sonorities of the harp, by exploring existing techniques and their more remote regions, in order to gain access to new territory and new soundscaoes, as realised by the constantly experimentally-minded and virtuoso player. Per Norgard, 2004.  .
SKU: BT.DHP-1185965-070
ISBN 9789043154505. English-German-French-Dutch.
Queen are known not only for their stylistic diversity, but also for their over-the-top theatrics during concerts and in videos. This helped give them the staying power to have hit songs for over twenty years! One of their biggest, instantly recognised hits is the rock-anthem We Are the Champions, written by Freddie Mercury. This monster hit is now available in an energetic string quartet arrangement by Anthony Gröger. Queen is niet alleen gekend om hun muziek in diverse stijlen, maar ook om hun theatrale uitvoeringen tijdens concerten en in videoclips. Een van hun grootste hits is het rocknummer We Are the Champions, geschreven door Freddie Mercury. Deze monsterhit is nu beschikbaar in een meesleepend arrangement voor strijkkwartet bewerkt door Anthony Gröger. Neben der stilistischen Vielseitigkeit ist das Theatralische und Pompöse eines der Erkennungsmerkmale der Musik von Queen und zwar offensichtlich durchaus im positiven Sinne, wie der zeitlose Erfolg ihrer Hits beweist! Ein Paradebeispiel dafu r ist die Rockhymne We Are the Champions aus der Feder von Freddie Mercury, die nun in einer mitreiÃ?enden Streichquartettbearbeitung von Anthony Gröger vorliegt. Emmené par le charismatique Freddie Mercury, le groupe Queen a marqué et marquera encore de nombreuses générations. We Are the Champions connaît un immense succès dès sa sortie, en 1977. Aujourdâ??hui, on ne compte plus le nombre de références ce titre dans les championnats sportifs mais également au cinéma, la télévision, dans des spots publicitaires etc. Anthony Gröger a ecrit un arrangement énergique de cet hymne rock pour quatuor cordes.
SKU: FG.55011-553-8
Jyrki Linjama's second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The first work in the cycle is a string trio (2007), the second a piece for orchestra (2009), and the fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba and violin.The composer tells: The choice of topic and material for the string trio was originally prompted by the venue at which it was to be premiered: the old church on the island of Seili (Sjalo). The bleak history of the island's leper and mental hospital evoked images of suffering and death. I got so attached to the harsh and beautiful melody that it began to generate a whole cycle. The string quartet is in three movements (slow-quick-slow) tensed in different ways by contrasts. The first movement has both swinging softness and cutting sharpness, the Scherzo the wildness of a dance of death and lyricism, and the finale the irrevocability of a funeral march and tender melodiousness.
SKU: PR.144402180
UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches.
The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...
SKU: PR.14440218S
UPC: 680160027170. 9.5 x 13 inches.
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