| Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartet No. 4 - Children's Games (Score) String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Chester
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 24 pages. Chester Music #CH68629. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008374). ISBN 9781846096150. UPC: 884088435202. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches. The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004, with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than its predecessor, an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560, now in Vienna), which had been the inspiration for my sixth Strathclyde Concerto, for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination, but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of the work. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog, bind the devil with a cord, truss, wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks, guess whom I shall choose, courting, odds and evens. The single movement juxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture, taking liberties which would never be present in, for instance, Brunelleschi architectural drawings, so here, with a constant sequence of transformation processes, I have distorted the neat, precise implications of modal progression, expressed in the unison opening phrase (from F to B through A sharp/B flat), so that the ear is led, en route, into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that I was reading into, and behind the games, adult motives and implications, concerning aggression and war, with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B progression underlying the whole construction derives from a passage in the development of the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony, and the opening of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet. However, unlike in these models, here a real - if temporary - sense of resolution occurs at the close of the quartet: as when the curtain falls on the reconciled Count and Countess in 'Figaro' one wonders how long the F/B truce will hold, and games break out again. The quartet is dedicated to Giuseppe Rebecchini, Roman architect, and friend since the nineteen-fifties. $29.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Quatuor a cordes String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Set of Parts] Barenreiter
By Maurice Ravel. Edited by Juliette Appold. For Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello....(+)
By Maurice Ravel. Edited by Juliette Appold. For Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import).
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| Lamentation and Satire String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Peermusic Classical
String Quartet SKU: BT.PMC3932 String quartet. Composed by Mohamme...(+)
String Quartet SKU: BT.PMC3932 String quartet. Composed by Mohammed Fairouz. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2013. Peermusic Classical #PMC3932. Published by Peermusic Classical (BT.PMC3932). A grim commentary on the contemporary Middle East, Lamentation and Satire is, in the composer's words, born out of a reaction to a part of the world that is over the edge. Advanced Level. $25.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Seven Views on the Vicar's Sunday Sermon String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Music Distribution Services
String quartet SKU: M7.DOHR-88815 Variations for String Quartet. C...(+)
String quartet SKU: M7.DOHR-88815 Variations for String Quartet. Composed by Adrian Connell. Sheet music. Score and parts. 48 pages. Duration 15'. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #DOHR 88815. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.DOHR-88815). ISBN 9790202098158. On the workFor many years I was the director of festive music at our local church in Orpington. I always carried a little music notebook on me for use during the sermons. I remember writing a series of notes, as a challenge to use as a melody when I got home, then I realised it used all twelve notes of the scale. Having been penned during a sermon, I decided to use this as a structure. The tone row became the sermon and the following variations the reactions to this sermon. As a clue to the ideas behind the music, I added sectional headings to each variation. While this is a serious work musically, it is actually meant to be a piece of fun! (Adrian Connell)Duration: 15 minutes. $10.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Six (6) Reactions Sur Un Theme De Rythme String Quartet Score And Parts String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Hal Leonard
SKU: HL.48023129 Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover. Hal Leonard #M...(+)
SKU: HL.48023129 Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover. Hal Leonard #M221122254. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.48023129). ISBN 9783923051403. 9.25x12.0x0.221 inches. $39.00 - See more - Buy online | | |
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