Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello - Grade 3.5

SKU: AP.36-52703177

Composed by Lynne Latham. Performance Music Ensemble. Latham Music. Score. Latham Music Enterprises #36-52703177. Published by Latham Music Enterprises (AP.36-52703177).

ISBN 9781621569367. English.

Some of the best loved operatic tunes are featured in this collection arranged by Lynne Latham. Ideal for the advanced quartet, players will find performances of these Opera Favorites fulfilling and enjoyable. Included: 1. O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), 2. The Flower Song from Lakme (Delibes), 3. Der Vogelfänger from The Magic Flute (Mozart), 4. Bei Männern from The Magic Flute (Mozart), 5. Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach), 6. Habanera from Carmen (Bizet), 7. The Toreador's Song from Carmen (Bizet), 8. Meditation from Thaïs (Massenet).

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(String Solos & Ensemble/String Quartet). Arranged by Aufderhaar, Cleo. For String Quartet (Score). String Solos & Ensembles - String Quartet. Southern Music. Grade 4. 62 pages. Southern Music Company #B500SC. Published by Southern Music Company

String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-497-5

Composed by Kimmo Hakola. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-497-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-497-5).

ISBN 9790550114975.

Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is the floundering, playful, if necessary defiantly dramatic, surprising, capricious and unrestrained tour de force of a youthful entity.Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging 'sound and fury' and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440218S

After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218S. Published by Merion Music (PR.14440218S).

UPC: 680160027170. 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...

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14025352

Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. 104 pages. Music Sales #KP01337. Published by Music Sales (HL.14025352).

ISBN 9788759885420. English-Danish.

Preface The three movements of the quartet may be perceived as three different expressions of an unstable core: an inherent unrest leads to frequent changes of direction. The first movement is full of dramatic contrasts: it is followed by a second movement, whose basic mood of meditative rest is challenged by occasional centrifugal utbursts, while the third movement takes the inherent conflicts to a higher level, contrasting material of introspective lyricism with excessively pathetic moods. The final way out is a retrograde one, (back) into the source: through a constant accelerando-diminuendo the piece disappears into a vanishing point. The into the source of the titlemay be visualized as a reversed fountain-action: the broad fan-like spread of the first movement, a more coherent-solid second movement, and finally - in the third movement - a return-run, ever more vehemently, like a suction into the spring itself ... The musical motifs are varied: there are traffic-situations (which I heard!) with stomping and machine-like rhythms in different, but simultaneous tempi, and there are more abstract upwards and downwards half-tone-scales, with changing accents, creating glimpses of melodies. INTO THE SOURCE, String Quartet No. 9, was composed on a double-commission from the Orion Quartet and the Vertavo Quartet. The premiere performances took places in Santa Fe in 2002 and in Oslo in 2003. Per Norgard.