| Silent Spaces for String Quartet String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Metropolis Music Publishers
String Quartet SKU: IS.CM6538EM Composed by Charles Camilleri. Ensembles ...(+)
String Quartet SKU: IS.CM6538EM Composed by Charles Camilleri. Ensembles - Chamber Music. Metropolis Music Publishers #CM6538EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers (IS.CM6538EM). ISBN 9790365065387. Charles Camilleri (1931 - 2009) was a Maltese composer. As a teenager, he composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. He moved from his early influences by Maltese folk music to a musical form in which nothing is fixed and his compositions evolve from themselves with a sense of fluency and inevitability. He composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments. Camilleri's work has been performed throughout the world and his research of folk music and improvisation, the influences of the sounds of Africa and Asia, together with the academic study of European music, helped him create a universal style. Camilleri is recognized in Malta as one of the major composers of his generation. He died on 3 January 2009 at the age of 77. His funeral took place two days later at Naxxar, his long-time town of residence. Flags across Malta were flown at half-mast in tribute to him. $22.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440265S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440265S Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Large Score. With Standard notation. Duration 25 minutes. Merion Music #144-40265S. Published by Merion Music (PR.14440265S). UPC: 680160027910. The Second and Third Quartets were conceived at the same time; indeed, their composition intermingled, over half of No. 3 being sketched before No. 2 was completed. Accordingly, they share similar material but, like the intertwining blood of cousins, their natures differ: No. 2 being somewhat acerbic and declamatory, No. 3 more lyric and gentler. An annunicatory 'leaping motive' (derived from a motto generated by my name) opens Quartet No. 2 and inhabits the course of the piece as a cyclical binding-force. A five-note motive, usually very deliberate, also keeps recurring like an insistent caller. All three movements are based on tonal centers (I on B and E, II on D, III on C) and the harmonic 'grammar' spoken tends to recall the jazz world of my youth. To hopefully achieve a certain classical ambience was one of the goals of this piece, and all three movements have traditional forms. The first movement is a modified Sonata-Allegro design, with a severely-truncated recapitulation balanced by a lengthy, and decaying Coda. The second movement is a set of strophic variants and an epilogue interspersed with both solo ritornelli and first-movement material (the motto and the five-note motive) in the nature of a fantasia-like 'call-and-response.' It is dedicated to the memory of the American mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. The third movement is a modified Rondo (ABACBA) which evolves out of the opening motto. All three movements make much use of canonic stretti, similar gestures, and repetition. For example, the climax of movement III's Rondo throws the first movement back at us again, as if the players were reluctant to let it go, so that the entire piece could perhaps be viewed as a single large, extended, Sonata movement, with introduction and Coda. The Second and Third Quartets were conceived at the same time; indeed, their composition intermingled, over half of No. 3 being sketched before No. 2 was completed. Accordingly, they share similar material but, like the intertwining blood of cousins, their natures differ: No. 2 being somewhat acerbic and declamatory, No. 3 more lyric and gentler.An annunicatory ‘leaping motive’ (derived from a motto generated by my name) opens Quartet No. 2 and inhabits the course of the piece as a cyclical binding-force. A five-note motive, usually very deliberate, also keeps recurring like an insistent caller. All three movements are based on tonal centers (I on B and E, II on D, III on C) and the harmonic ‘grammar’ spoken tends to recall the jazz world of my youth.To hopefully achieve a certain classical ambience was one of the goals of this piece, and all three movements have traditional forms. The first movement is a modified Sonata-Allegro design, with a severely-truncated recapitulation balanced by a lengthy, and decaying Coda. The second movement is a set of strophic variants and an epilogue interspersed with both solo ritornelli and first-movement material (the motto and the five-note motive) in the nature of a fantasia-like ‘call-and-response.’ It is dedicated to the memory of the American mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. The third movement is a modified Rondo (ABACBA) which evolves out of the opening motto.All three movements make much use of canonic stretti, similar gestures, and repetition. For example, the climax of movement III’s Rondo throws the first movement back at us again, as if the players were reluctant to let it go, so that the entire piece could perhaps be viewed as a single large, extended, Sonata movement, with introduction and Coda. $85.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Fennica Gehrman
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-553-8 Allerheiligentag III. Composed ...(+)
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-553-8 Allerheiligentag III. Composed by Jyrki Linjama. Classical. Score and Parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-553-8. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-553-8). Jyrki Linjama's second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The first work in the cycle is a string trio (2007), the second a piece for orchestra (2009), and the fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba and violin.The composer tells: The choice of topic and material for the string trio was originally prompted by the venue at which it was to be premiered: the old church on the island of Seili (Sjalo). The bleak history of the island's leper and mental hospital evoked images of suffering and death. I got so attached to the harsh and beautiful melody that it began to generate a whole cycle. The string quartet is in three movements (slow-quick-slow) tensed in different ways by contrasts. The first movement has both swinging softness and cutting sharpness, the Scherzo the wildness of a dance of death and lyricism, and the finale the irrevocability of a funeral march and tender melodiousness. $42.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Madhares (Third String Quartet) String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Schott
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) - difficult SKU: HL.49018488(+)
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) - difficult SKU: HL.49018488 3rd String Quartet. Composed by Thomas Larcher. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score and parts. Composed 2006/2007. 132 pages. Duration 18'. Schott Music #ED20356. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018488). ISBN 9790001151511. UPC: 884088668044. 9.25x12.0x0.333 inches. The title of Thomas Larcher's third string quartet, Madhares, refers to the name of a deserted place on the island of Crete which inspired him to compose this work. Larcher developed the piece from repetitions of sounds generated by plucking the strings with a coin. The C major in the second movement Honey from Anopolis evokes the picture of an idealistic time long gone. The idyll is broken by rapid rhythmic movements marked 'sleepless'. $71.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| String Quartet String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Chester
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14043597 Score. Composed by Brian E...(+)
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14043597 Score. Composed by Brian Elias. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Score. 46 pages. Chester Music #CH81103. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043597). 8.25x12.0x0.166 inches. String Quartet Was Composed By Mumbai-Born Brian Elias In 2012, And Was Commissioned By The Jerusalem String Quartet. Lasting Around 20 Minutes, This Is The Full Score Of The Work Arranged For Violin I, Violin Ii, Viola And Cello. The Work Has Been Laid Out In The Conventional Four Movements, Allegro, Adagio, Presto, Adagio-Allegro-Adagio, But It Is Essentially A Work In A Single Movement To Be Performed With No Breaks. A Set Of Double Variations Generates The Thematic And Harmonic Material For The Entire Piece In Its First Few Bars, With A Brilliant Viola Solo Afterwards. Throughout The Piece, Changes In Dynamics And Tempo Characterise The Different Movements, Before Finally EndingWith A Calming Return To The Slow Music.&Nbsp; You Can Purchase The Individual Instrument&Nbsp; Parts Here. $27.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Barenreiter
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This...(+)
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited
by Jonathan Del Mar. This
edition: urtext edition.
Stapled. Barenreiter Urtext.
Study score. Opus 131.
Baerenreiter Verlag #TP00931.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verla
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| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. S...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40505. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114405050). UPC: 680160008377. 11 x 14 inches. Although structurally it subdivides into five movements, the entire quartet emerges as one vast continuum. There are no formal breaks between movements. However, certain musical signposts can be discerned, associated with each of the movements' terminations and new beginnings. The opening movement, The Nostalgia of Clanging Bell Sonorities, begins floating on recurrent Bbs whose soft rhythmic flow slowly puts into motion strong undercurrents suggestive of the latent power of water... After several suggestions of tolling bells, the movement gradually fades into hushed tones of veiled and very distant sonorities. It uses a unique efffect, for the first time in a musical context, conveyed through the use of extra heavy practice mutes. The second movement, The Spill of Water , disengages itself from the first through its distinct contrast in tempo. Water moves fast, and when it splashes, it tends to run wildly. In this case, it happens to be bubbly water that gushes forth bodly... smashing across rocky shorlines. So, too, the music attempts to conjure such moods. At the end of this movement, a cello cadenza emerges, introducing an introspective type of melodicism. The third movement, The Poignancy of Memory, contains many silences as it tries to convey memory through fragmented remembrances much like often occur in our dream state. Progressing through several slowly building images, it gradually works itself into juxtaposition of musical images. Towards the movement's end, high harmonics are sounding in all four instruments while left hand pizzicato notes in the cello pluch the last remembrances of this central core. Almost imperceptibly, the viola assumes leadership as it dissolves into: The fourth movement, The Fluidity of Motion, which has mostly the viola, but also the cello, articulating lyrical statements against the sheets of sound conjured up by the two violins playing a flood of swirling figures, evokes a kind of static motion in spae. Here, the virtually imperceptible manner in which this hushed whisper continues incessantly, can suggest the potential fluidity with which movement may inch forward... Later into the fourth movement , two fairly extended solos by the second and then the first violins, lead to a kind of spontaneous dialogue among the four instrumentalists. Eventually, this musical conversation gets caught up in: The fifth movement's The Rush of Time, which opens with a hushed flurry of speed, precipitates the Finale. It generates, at first slowly, but then very swiftly, whole shifts of rhythmic fields that initially seem to conflict with one another. Ultimately, this use of 'psycho-rhythmics contributes to an on-rush of motion and time. Rhythmic changes are, at times, abruptly precipitated with but little or no preparation creating a kind of inevitability in forward thrust, while the movement rushes forward with a feeling of gradual and continuous acceleration. It gathers density as more and more notes are piled progressively upon successive beats. The attempt is to spark tension and ignite excitement by means of frenetic confrontations of dissimilitudes. Ultimately - with the help of time - these polarities centrifically spin out their own destinies with their accompanying fall-out and own inevitable resolutions. $130.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. Full score. With Standard notation. 53 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40505S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440505S). UPC: 680160008391. 11 x 14 inches. Although structurally it subdivides into five movements, the entire quartet emerges as one vast continuum. There are no formal breaks between movements. However, certain musical signposts can be discerned, associated with each of the movements' terminations and new beginnings. The opening movement, The Nostalgia of Clanging Bell Sonorities, begins floating on recurrent Bbs whose soft rhythmic flow slowly puts into motion strong undercurrents suggestive of the latent power of water... After several suggestions of tolling bells, the movement gradually fades into hushed tones of veiled and very distant sonorities. It uses a unique effect, for the first time in a musical context, conveyed through the use of extra heavy practice mutes. The second movement, The Spill of Water, disengages itself from the first through its distinct contrast in tempo. Water moves fast, and when it splashes, it tends to run wildly. In this case, it happens to be bubbly water that gushes forth bodly... smashing across rocky shorelines. So, too, the music attempts to conjure such moods. At the end of this movement, a cello cadenza emerges, introducing an introspective type of melodicism. The third movement, The Poignancy of Memory, contains many silences as it tries to convey memory through fragmented remembrances much like often occur in our dream state. Progressing through several slowly building images, it gradually works itself into juxtaposition of musical images. Towards the movement's end, high harmonics are sounding in all four instruments while left hand pizzicato notes in the cello pluck the last remembrances of this central core. Almost imperceptibly, the viola assumes leadership as it dissolves into: The fourth movement, The Fluidity of Motion, which has mostly the viola, but also the cello, articulating lyrical statements against sheets of sound conjured up by the two violins playing a flood of swirling figures, evokes a kind of static motion in space. Here , the virtually imperceptible manner in which this hushed whisper continues incessantly, can suggest the potential fluidity with which movement may inch forward... Later into the fourth movement, two fairly extended solos by the second and then the first violins, lead to a kind of spontaneous dialogue amont the four instrumentalists. Eventually, this musical conversation gets caught up in: The fifth movement's The Rush of Time, which opens with a hushed flurry of speed, precipitates the Finale. It generates, at first slowly, but then very swiftly, whole shifts of rhythmic fields that initially seem to conflict with one another. Ultimately, this use of psycho-rhythmics contributes to an on-rush seem of motion and time. Rhythmic changes are, at times, abruptly precipitated with but little or no preparation creating a kind of inevitability in forward thrust, while the movement rushes forward with a feeling of gradual and continuous acceleration. It gathers density as more and more notes are piled progressively upon successive beats. The attempt is to spark tension and ignite excitement by means of frenetic confrontations of dissimilitudes. Ultimately - with the help of time - these polarities centrifically spin out their own destinies with their accompanying fall-out and own inevitable resolutions. $75.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Hallelujah Chorus for Trombone Quartet & Organ Brass Quartet: 4 trombones [Score and Parts] - Advanced Cherry Classics
Trombone Quartet & Organ - advanced SKU: CY.CC2983 Composed by G. F. Hand...(+)
Trombone Quartet & Organ - advanced SKU: CY.CC2983 Composed by G. F. Handel. Arranged by Jeremy Kempton. Baroque Christmas. Score and parts. 10 pages. Cherry Classics #2983. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC2983). ISBN 9790530058022. The Hallelujah Chorus is one of the most recognizable works in the entire musical repertoire, beloved for generations. Jeremy Niles Kempton's arrangement for Trombone Quartet (or larger ensemble) and Organ/Piano is sure to be a hit for any concert or service during Christmas or Easter. This 4-minute arrangement for moderately advanced performers is in the original key with the 1st and 2nd parts in tenor clef. $27.50 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| The Sinking of the Titanic String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Sheet music + CD] Schott
(Version for String Quartet and Pre-Recorded Material). By Gavin Bryars (1943-)....(+)
(Version for String Quartet and Pre-Recorded Material). By Gavin Bryars (1943-). For String Quartet. G Schirmer String Ensemble. Softcover with CD. 112 pages. Schott Music #ED13473. Published by Schott Music
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| Psalm 85 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Music Distribution Services
Medium voice and string quartet SKU: M7.DOHR-16340 Composed by Lothar Gra...(+)
Medium voice and string quartet SKU: M7.DOHR-16340 Composed by Lothar Graap. Sheet music. Score and parts. 28 pages. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #DOHR 16340. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.DOHR-16340). ISBN 9790202033401. Zum Text Psalm 85 hat mich deshalb besonders beschäftigt, weil hier das Thema der Glaubenstradition angesprochen wird. Anders als im alten Israel können wir uns heute auf ein Vormals kaum oder gar nicht berufen. Trotzdem kann alle Zuversicht doch ist ja auch heute noch unsere Generation und zukünftige Generationen tragen. Ich schrieb meine Gedanken zu Psalm 85 ursprünglich für die Segnung eines neu geborenen Kindes und nahm sie dann in ein Buch zu den Wochenpsalmen des liturgischen Kalenders auf. (Hartmut Handt) Zur Komposition Die Uraufführung fand am 12. November 2006 in der ehemaligen Schlosskirche Schöneiche zu Beginn der Friedensdekade der Evangelischen Kirche statt. Ausführende waren Sara-Maria Kurczyk (Gesang) und das Deutsch-Polnische Jugendorchester Frankfurt an der Oder unter der Leitung von Zielona Gora. $23.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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