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| String Quartet No. 4 Score And Parts
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
Schott
String quartet (String Quartet) - difficult SKU: HL.49018856 [COPYRIGH...(+)
String quartet (String Quartet) - difficult SKU: HL.49018856 [COPYRIGHT RETURNED TO COMPOSER]. Composed by Edward Cowie. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Softcover. 76 pages. Duration 15'. Schott Music #ED13391. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018856). ISBN 9790220133244. UPC: 884088675028. 9.0x12.0x0.204 inches. Although this is technically Cowie's seventh string quartet, it replaces his earlier fourth quartet, which he came to feel no longer fit with his compositional voice. The quartet fluctuates between a slow, luminous sound and fast, agitated music. Unlike much of Cowie's work, this music is abstracted from his usual preoccupation with the natural world, turning instead to look at an inner landscape. The composer describes the emotional force behind his quartet: The year 2009 was a terrible year in which I lost three close friends to cancer and an elder brother to Alzheimer's disease. It was also a year in which my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer; something from which she has thankfully made a great recovery. At times like these, emotions are sorely tested and highlighted. Four people I loved have gone, so this music must remain as testament not to death, but to the magnificent fragility and loveliness of life. It closes with a gentle and almost vaporising 'benediction' a kind of 'amen' if you like. $73.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | | |
| Bach-Shards
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441345S Prelude to Contrapunctu...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441345S Prelude to Contrapunctus X from the Art of the Fugue. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41345S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441345S). UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches. BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural.
While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal. First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language. Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts. A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will. The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural. It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point. $14.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | | |
| De/Con
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9259 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Cha...(+)
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9259 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Chamber music; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017 Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Full score. Composed 2016/17. 32 pages. Duration 15' - 18'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9259. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9259). ISBN 9790004185599. 9 x 12 inches. When Hugo Ticciati asked me to write a new piece for his quartet, I was immediately enthusiastic about this project. I love how Hugo and his O/MODERNT String Quartet unite old and new music in a completely natural way. So, I was absolutely excited about Hugo`s idea of having my piece based on two of my idols, Bach and Beethoven, deconstructing the one and constructing the other. With all my respect for these great composers I gave to the piece a very personal inner part consisting of my own music that influenced and inspired the other parts. For the whole piece I felt very close to Beethoven, who said: To make a fugue is not art, which [is something] I have made dozens of times in my study. But the imagination will assert its rights and must come today, in light of the old traditional form, to another truly poetic element. De/Con is a travel into different centuries with different sound-languages. For me, it was like having a wonderful constructive discussion with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, each of us trying to speak our own language, approaching the others step by step. The piece could be defined as a Love Letter to two of the greatest composers ever. De/Con could be preceded by (parts of) Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) and succeeded by Ludwig van Beethoven's Grosse Fuge (Great Fugue). Ideally, then, all parts should be played attacca. It could, but it hasn't to be played with these two pieces. (Manuela Kerer)
World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017. $54.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | | |
| De/Con
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9260 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Cha...(+)
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9260 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Chamber music; Folder. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017 Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Set of parts. Composed 2016/17. 32 pages. Duration 15' - 18'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9260. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9260). ISBN 9790004185605. 9 x 12 inches. When Hugo Ticciati asked me to write a new piece for his quartet, I was immediately enthusiastic about this project. I love how Hugo and his O/MODERNT String Quartet unite old and new music in a completely natural way. So, I was absolutely excited about Hugo`s idea of having my piece based on two of my idols, Bach and Beethoven, deconstructing the one and constructing the other. With all my respect for these great composers I gave to the piece a very personal inner part consisting of my own music that influenced and inspired the other parts. For the whole piece I felt very close to Beethoven, who said: To make a fugue is not art, which [is something] I have made dozens of times in my study. But the imagination will assert its rights and must come today, in light of the old traditional form, to another truly poetic element. De/Con is a travel into different centuries with different sound-languages. For me, it was like having a wonderful constructive discussion with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, each of us trying to speak our own language, approaching the others step by step. The piece could be defined as a Love Letter to two of the greatest composers ever. De/Con could be preceded by (parts of) Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) and succeeded by Ludwig van Beethoven's Grosse Fuge (Great Fugue). Ideally, then, all parts should be played attacca. It could, but it hasn't to be played with these two pieces. (Manuela Kerer)
World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017. $54.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
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