String Quartet

SKU: PR.16400222S

Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (study). With Standard notation. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00222S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.16400222S).

UPC: 680160037841.

This work follows my Quartet No. 1 by five years. In terms of style and aesthetic aim, however, it seems light years away. Where the first work, a 28-minute, four-movement piece, took aim at cosmic conflicts and heroic resolutions, the present work is intended as a kind of divertissment. Harbor Music lasts a mere eleven minutes, is cast in a single movement with six sections, and should leave both performers and listeners with a feeling of good humor and affection.   The title comes from my experience as a guest in the magnificent city of Sydney, Australia. One of its most attractive features is its unique system of ferry boats: the city is laid out around a large, multi-channeled harbor, with destinations more easily approached by water than by land. Consequently, inhabitants of Sydney get around on small, people-friendly boats that come and go from the central docks at Circular Quay. During a week's visit in 1991, I must have boarded these boats at least a dozen times, always bound for a new location - the resort town of Manley, or the Zoo at Taronga Park, or the shopping district at Darling Harbour.   In casting about for a form for my second string quartet, a kind of loose rondo came to mind. Each new destination would be approached from the same starting-out point (although there are subtle variations in the repeating theme; it's always in a new key, and the texture is never the same). The result, I hope, is a sense of constant new information presented with introductory frames of a more familiar nature.   The embarkation theme, which begins the piece, is a sort of bi-tonal fanfare in which the violins are in G major and the viola and cello are in B-flat major. It is bold, eager, and forward-looking. The first voyage maintains this bi-tonality, beginning as a 9/8 due for second violin and viola in a kind of rocking motion -much as a boat produces when reaching the deeper water in the harbor. A sweet, nostalgic theme emerges over this rocking accompaniment. This music is developed somewhat, then transforms quickly into a much faster and lighter episode, filled with rising and falling scales (again, in differing keys). A scherzando interlude in short notes and changing meters provides contrast, and the episode ends with a reprise of the scales.   The second embarkation follows, this time in A major/C major. It leads quickly into a very warm and slow theme, in wide-leaping intervals for the viola. This section is interrupted twice by solo cadenzas for the cello, suggesting distant boat-horns in major thirds. The end of the episode becomes a transition, with boat-horns leading into the final appearance of the embarkation music, this time in trills and tremolos instead of sharply accented chords. The nostalgic theme of the first episode makes a final appearance, serving now as a coda. The rocking motion continues, in a lullaby fashion, leaving us drowsy and satisfied on our homeward journey.   Harbor Music was written for the Cavani Quartet, and is dedicated to Richard J. Bogomolny. Commissioned by his employees at First National Supermarkets as a gift, it represents a thank you from many of the people (including this composer) who have benefitted from his vision and generosity. An ardent advocate of chamber music (and a cellist himself), Mr. Bogomolny has for many years been Chairman of the Board of Chamber Music America. -- Dan Welcher.

For String Quartet. Composed by Anton Webern (1883-1945). Edited by James Beale. SWS - Main book Only. First Performed May 27, 1962 at Seattle, Washington by the University of Washington String Quartet. Score and part(s). With Standard notation. Composed 1905. 32 pages. Duration 0:08:00. Carl Fischer Music #O4528. Published by Carl Fischer Musi

By Trevor Jones and Dougie McLean. Arranged by Carla Boardman Padron. For String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello). Instrumental piece from film Last of the Mohicans (1992). Contemporary. Set of parts. 10 pages

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14043045

Composed by Thomas Simaku. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. University of York Music Press #M570363216. Published by University of York Music Press (HL.14043045).

Thomas Simaku is an Albanian-born British composer whose music has been reaching audiences all over Europe and the USA for over a decade. The sheet music for String Quartet No. 4 - Parts has been beautifully composed for String Quartet for Intermediate to Advanced level.

Thomas Simaku is an Albanian-born British composer whose music has been reaching audiences all over Europe and the USA for over a decade.

The sheet music for String Quartet No. 4 - Parts hasbeen beautifully composed for String Quartet for Intermediate to Advanced level.

String Quartet

SKU: BT.EMBZ14219

Composed by Attila Bozay. EMB Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 2000. 61 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14219. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14219).

Italian.

'Bozay's new quartet is an imposingly splendid work. Its slow second movement reaches almost Bartókian depths. The final rondeau is of elemental force. Each movement is characterized by lucid structure. The aleatoric sections fit perfectly the ones fixed precisely by notation. The tone is controlled and lucid to an utmost degree throughout. The thematic materials are characteristic, their combination is logical, but not commonplace it is a work written with amazing skill of the craft.' (Porrectus, Muzsika, March 1999). The fourmovement work composed in 1996-1997 was first performed with great success by the String Quartet Somogyi at the 1999 Mini-Festival in Budapest.