Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath is an innovative and original piece based on the performers' own bodily rhythms. This sheet music is for String Quartet(Violin/Violin/Viola/Cello).Richard Reed Parry is familiar to millions as the lead singer of rock band Arcade Fire yet his foray into classical music is equally worthy of attention. Quartet For Heart AndBreath is an experiment into using the performers' heartbeats and breathing to dictate the tempo. The performers are instructed to wear stethoscopes in order to listen to their heartbeats closely while one completebreath corresponds to one bar and two heartbeats equal two crotchets.The result is a quiet and subtle piece as each instrument has to play softly so as to be able to keep in time. The piece also has a naturally occurringdynamism in that the players' heart rates constantly change as the performance goes on with each instrument falling in and out of sync sometimes culminating in a beautiful moment of all heartbeats matching each other.Interestingly this unique aspect means that no performance will ever be the same meaning to hear or play this composition will be a truly once in a lifetime experience.Quartet For Heart And Breath is asuperbly one-of-a-kind composition by Richard Reed Parry. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet this piece makes for a wonderfully distinctive performance with fascinating implications for the connection between the musicand the body.

The String Quartets in a Slipcase-All of Joseph Haydn's 69 string quartets in 12 paperback Urtext study editions collected together in a slipcase.All of the study scores minutely follow the musical text contained in the uncontested reference edition by theJoseph Haydn Institute in Cologne whose scholarly critical Haydn Complete Edition is also published by Henle Publishers. Each quartet opus reflects the latest in scholarly research and is introduced by an informative preface. Themusical text fulfils the highest aesthetic demands.A welcome present for every chamber music fan and the basis for every serious quartet player who wishes to play or study these works.

Streichquartett-Dvo ák?s String Quartet No.5 in F minor of 1873 represents musically speaking a fundamental re-orientation of the composer. It has nothing that reminds one of his excessive admiration for the music of Wagner and Liszt. Instead Dvo ák re-establishes contact with the classical String Quartet tradition.The autograph score once in the possession of Dvo ák?s heirs is no longer accessible. This edition is based on the posthumously printed edition of 1929.