Arranged by and ed. Joanne Martin. For 2nd Violin Part. String Ensemble - Mixed. 20 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959). For string quartet (2 violins, viola, violoncello). Chamber music for strings. Czech title: Smy covy kvartet 4. Classical. Study score. Publication language: Czech/German/English/French

String Quartet - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14001159

Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Studyscore. Composed 2005. 28 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30120B. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14001159).

ISBN 9788759805527. UPC: 888680792657. 8.25x11.75x0.106 inches.

Study score to Bent Sorensen's Adieu for String Quartet. The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval monks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again. Bent Sorensen.

2 violins, viola, cello - Grade 8

SKU: A3.9781860969294

Composed by Various. String Quartets. Spectrum (ABRSM). Modern. Score and parts. 140 pages. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781860969294. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) (A3.9781860969294).

ISBN 9781860969294. 9 x 12 inches.

Spectrum for String Quartet is a collection of specially commissioned pieces. Three composers of widely different backgrounds and experience have written works of about eight minutes duration for players of ABRSM Grade 8 Standard.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440455S

Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Large Score. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 22 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40455S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440455S).

UPC: 680160030873.

After finishing a serious woodwind quintet in the fall of 2001 [Tela Lacerata], I found, in the ensuing months, that its cinders/ashes were still impregnating my eardrums. Therefore, when I set out to write the present string piece, I realized that the musical veins of the quartet, like related cousins, were sharing the same blood as the earlier wind composition. The resultant Fifth Quartet evolved into two large, extended movements, each one containing seven parts that are played without pause. As the list of the various sub-sections clearly indicates, the formal structure of the movements appear to be identical: each with three main parts enveloped by interludes, plus an introduction and coda. However, the principal segments of the first (slow) movement gradually decrease in length, while those of the second (fast) movement increase. In addition, there is a goodly amount of sonic material stolen from the first movement which reappears -- stitched together in a new guise -- into the world of the second. for example, the bulk of Parts B and C of Movement II are lifted bodily, although elaborately modified, from their first appearances in the Introduction and Part A of the fist movement. This offers, I suppose at least a hint of a traditional recapitulation. As was true in the earlier woodwind piece -- both harmonically and melodically -- the embryonic growth of the musical fabric (primarily the tritone and perfect fifth) is omnipresent, almost obsessively, throughout the course of the whole work. These two intervals, not unlike plasticine, habitually transform themselves into the scales, chords, and melodic lines that pervade the texture of the quartet. Owing to the largely unrelieved dramatic flow, the shifting speed, and the often fervent intensity, the quartet places considerable demands on the dexterity, virtuosity, and stamina of the four performers. String Quartet No. 5 is approximately 22 minutes in duration and affectionately dedicated to my violinist wife Elizabeth, as a gift for our 47 years together. It was commissioned by the Corigliano String Quartet, New York, NY. -- Sydney Hodkinson.