Chamber Music for Strings; Early Music SKU: UT.CSS-12 Composed by Maurizi...(+)
Chamber Music for
Strings; Early Music
SKU: UT.CSS-12
Composed by Maurizio
Cazzati. Edited by Andrea
Bornstein. Saddle
stitching. Classical.
Score and Parts. Ut
Orpheus #CSS 12.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.CSS-12).
String quartet SKU: HH.HH369-FSP Composed by Anonymous. Edited by Christo...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH369-FSP
Composed
by Anonymous. Edited by
Christopher Hogwood. Two
Violins, Viola,
Violoncello. Full score
and parts. Edition HH
Music Publishers
#HH369-FSP. Published by
Edition HH Music
Publishers
(HH.HH369-FSP).
ISBN
9790708041887.
This
previously-unpublished
Concerto a Quadro
presumably started life
as a concerto for the
standard Baroque forces
of flute, strings and
continuo, now otherwise
unknown; it is preserved
in its surviving form for
flute, violin, viola and
cello in a set of
manuscript parts
apparently copied by an
amateur musician in
Sweden. Although unlikely
to be the work of Handel,
as a rare early example
of music for flute
quartet it is an
attractive extension to a
repertoire otherwise
dominated by the works of
Mozart and his
contemporaries. In the
present publication,
editorial figuring in the
cello part allows for the
possibility of expanding
the texture with
additional continuo
instruments.
Sechs Concertos and six Sonatas for strings. Can be perfomed by one or several...(+)
Sechs Concertos and six
Sonatas for strings. Can
be
perfomed by one or
several
players from each string
instrument. Continuo
realization: Wolf Hobohm.
Composed by Georg Philipp
Telemann (1681-1767).
Edited
by Ute Poetzsch. This
edition: Edition of
selected
works, Urtext edition.
Linen.
Telemann Musical Works.
Volume 28. Score,
anthology.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA05309-
01. Published by
Baerenreiter
Verlag
Final Countdown Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1155643-070 Composed by Joey Te...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1155643-070
Composed by Joey Tempest.
Arranged by Anthony
Gröger. De Haske Pops
for String Quartet. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2015. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1155643-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1155643-070).
ISBN 9789043145954.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Recorded by
Swedish rock band Europe,
Final Countdown
has remained one of the
classic rock tunes of all
time. This international
number 1 chart hit has
been expertly arranged
for String Quartet by
Anthony Gröger. Let
the Countdown begin!
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.
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.
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: HL.49000224 Score and Parts. Co...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
HL.49000224
Score
and Parts. Composed
by George Frideric
Handel. Edited by Fritz
Zobeley. Arranged by
Fritz Zobeley. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Antiqua (Chamber Music).
Classical. Score and
Parts. 28 pages. Schott
Music #ANT52. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49000224).
ISBN
9790001002097. UPC:
884088546502.
9.0x12.0x0.075
inches.
3rd
string quartet.
Composed by Joerg
Widmann. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Score and parts. Composed
2003. 112 pages. Duration
12'. Schott Music
#ED9749. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49033270).
ISBN
9790001136860.
9.25x12.0x0.3
inches.
The
Jagdquartett (Hunt
Quartet), which Jorg
Widmann wrote as his
third string quartet in
2003, following the
Choralquartett, also
begins with a visible
gesture. After a short
signal cry from the
performers, the piece
starts by quoting Robert
Schumann's Papillons op.
2, and for its full
duration retains this
gesture, these starting
sounds. The degrees of
recognizability do change
continuously, to be sure,
in the furious, racing
organism of the score.
The contours change into
forms on another level,
yet now and then the
begining material returns
clearly to the fore,
initiated anew by a cry
from the performers, and
is then digested or
mutated as a rhythmic
study into a field of
harmonic experimentation.
On rare occasions, there
are moments of pause - as
though the musicians were
testing the atmosphere,
as though they were
sensing the weather, so
as ultimately to continue
playing the quartet
across the fields an
forests of notes. A hunt
after joyful performance,
a chase, the whip
cracking, after the thing
to be shot, the sound,
its performer, perhaps
the composer himself? - A
last shout, morendo, dal
niente... - The victim is
not the audience, at any
rate.When comparing the
output of string quartets
from the 18th century to
thetime of Schumann, it
appears to have dropped
considerably. Schumann
composed only three
complete quartets, all of
them in the so-called
'chamber music year'
1842. Jorg Widmann, who
counts Robert Schumann
among his greatest
inspirations, finished a
series of five string
quartets in 2005, at the
same age as Schumann. The
quartets in the cycle
form in themselves the
characters of the
movements of the
classical quartet.
Jagdquartett represents
the fast middle movement,
the scherzo. Widmann's
work appears rough and
wild in the style of
Schumann's alter ego
Florestan. His hunt
begins in the tempo of
'allegro vivace assai'
with the final theme of
Schumann's Papillons
which often appears or is
cited in many of
Schumann's compositions.
Widmann eventually
dismantles the thematic
material of his fierce
quartet, thus
skeletonising his
prey.
By Georg Philipp Telemann. Edited by Ute Poetzsch. For Violin/Flute 1. Single Pa...(+)
By Georg Philipp
Telemann. Edited by Ute
Poetzsch. For
Violin/Flute 1. Single
Part. TWV 43:A4.
Published by
Baerenreiter-Ausgaben
(German import). (BA5873
74)
Soprano and String Quartet SKU: HL.50506560 Critical Edition Score...(+)
Soprano and String
Quartet
SKU:
HL.50506560
Critical Edition
Score. Composed by
Antonio Vivaldi. Edited
by F. Degrada. Vocal.
Score Only. Composed
1984. Ricordi #PR1262.
Published by Ricordi
(HL.50506560).
UPC:
073999241563.
8.0x10.75x0.138
inches.
Inno for
Soprano, 2 Violins, Viola
and Basso Continuo.