| Extreme Make-Over Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] Amstel Music
Metamorphoses on a Theme by Tchaikovsky for Brass Band. By Johan De Meij. (Scor...(+)
Metamorphoses on a Theme
by Tchaikovsky for Brass
Band. By Johan De Meij.
(Score). Amstel Concert
Bands. 90 pages.
Published by Amstel
Music.
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| Extreme Make-Over Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Amstel Music
Metamorphoses on a Theme by Tchaikovsky for Wind Orchestra. By Johan De Meij. (...(+)
Metamorphoses on a Theme
by Tchaikovsky for Wind
Orchestra. By Johan De
Meij. (Score and Parts).
Amstel Concert Bands.
Published by Amstel
Music.
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| Sonata No. 6 "Kharkiv", Op. 48 Guitare Guitare classique [Conducteur] - Avancé Productions OZ
Guitar solo - Advanced SKU: DZ.DZ-4244 Composed by Konstantin Bliokh. Sco...(+)
Guitar solo - Advanced
SKU: DZ.DZ-4244
Composed by Konstantin
Bliokh. Score. Les
Productions d'OZ #DZ
4244. Published by Les
Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4244). ISBN
9782898521614. La
Sonate n° 6 Kharkiv
pour guitare solo a
été composée en
2021, Ã la fin du
confinement lié au
COVID-19. Ã? ce
moment-là , ma famille
et moi étions
restés dans notre
ville natale de Kharkiv
(également connue sous
le nom de Kharkov), en
Ukraine, pendant près
de deux ans. Nous
considérions cette
période de pandémie
comme un désastre,
mais nous avons
réalisé plus tard
que c'était en fait un
moment plutôt heureux,
car la guerre est
arrivée dans notre
pays quelques mois plus
tard. Depuis 2022, une
fraction considérable
des 1,5 million de
citoyens de Kharkiv ont
quitté leur foyer,
ceux qui sont restés
vivent sous des attaques
incessantes de missiles,
et beaucoup ont été
tués. Je voudrais
dédier cette Sonate
à la ville
frontalière de Kharkiv
et, surtout, Ã ses
citoyens souffrant de la
guerre.
Pourtant,
la musique de la Sonate
n'a aucun programme
spécifique. Ici, je
donnerai un bref
aperçu de ses
principaux éléments
de composition pour
faciliter les
interprétations
futures.
Les
premier et quatrième
mouvements de cette
Sonate sont basés sur
l'interaction entre le
principe
dodécaphonique et le
centre tonal de sol
majeur, naturel pour la
guitare. En particulier,
le premier mouvement est
basé sur l'interaction
de la triade de sol
majeur Solâ??Siâ??Ré
des cordes de guitare
à vide 2â??3â??4, le
motif ascendant 1
impliquant les notes
Miâ??Fa#â??Laâ??Do#
(Ã l'origine sur la
première corde), et le
motif descendant 2
utilisant les notes
Miâ??Doâ??Sibâ??La
(Ã l'origine sur la
corde de basse 6). Ces
éléments se
complètent presque
pour former douze tons
(Ã l'exception du Fa
manquant), et les motifs
alternent avec des
fragments ostinato où
chaque note de la triade
de sol majeur est
déplacée pas Ã
pas d'un demi-ton vers le
haut ou vers le
bas.
Le
deuxième mouvement est
un Scherzo impliquant de
nombreux demi-tons dans
des accords accentués
et des passages rapides,
ainsi qu'un mouvement
mélodique chromatique
dans la voix de basse. Il
est presque atonal dans
certains fragments, mais
a un centre tonal global
de la mineur.
Le
troisième mouvement
est un Adagio
méditatif basé sur
un thème composé
dans l'échelle
hexatonique
Réâ??Miâ??Faâ??Sol#
â??Laâ??Si et des
accords ostinato
impliquant les cordes de
basse à vide
Miâ??Laâ??Ré et le
demi-ton
Siâ??Do.
Enfin,
le quatrième mouvement
est basé sur le
thème
dodécaphonique complet
composé de deux
phrases comprenant les
motifs 1 et 2 du premier
mouvement :
Solâ??Faâ??Sibâ??Labâ
??Doâ??Mibâ??Ré et
Miâ??Siâ??Do#â??Laâ??
Fa#. Ce thème est
présenté dans ses
formes prime et
rétrograde. Il y a des
dialogues entre la
première corde, les
basses et les cordes
médianes à vide,
similaires au premier
mouvement. Ã? son
apogée, le thème
dodécaphonique est
interprété en
utilisant le mouvement
parallèle de l'accord
de sol majeur standard de
la guitare avec les
cordes médianes Ã
vide sur douze
positions.
La
Sonate a été
créée en
première et
enregistrée (CD Naxos
No. 8.574630) par le
célèbre guitariste
ukrainien Marko Topchii,
qui a également
vécu et étudié
à Kharkiv. Je lui suis
extrêmement
reconnaissant pour
l'interprétation
brillante de cette
pièce.
Je suis
très redevable envers
Productions d'Oz d'avoir
conservé mes notations
originales là où
celles-ci ne
correspondent pas au
style de
l'éditeur.
Sona
ta No. 6 Kharkiv for
guitar solo was composed
in 2021, in the end of
the COVID-19 lockdown. At
that time my family and I
were staying in our home
city of Kharkiv (also
known as Kharkov),
Ukraine for almost two
years. We considered that
pandemic period as a
disaster, but later have
realized that it actually
was a rather happy time,
because a war came to our
homeland just a few
months later. Since 2022
a considerable fraction
of the 1.5 millions of
Kharkiv citizens have
left their homes, those
who stayed have been
living under ceaseless
missile attacks, and many
have been killed. I would
like to dedicate this
Sonata to the frontier
city of Kharkiv and, most
of all, to its citizens
suffering from the
war. Yet, the music of
the Sonata does not have
any specific program.
Here I will give a brief
overview of its main
composition elements to
facilitate future
interpretations. The
first and fourth
movements of this Sonata
are based on the
interplay between the
twelve-tone principle and
the G-major tonal center,
natural for the guitar.
Namely, the first
movement is based on the
interaction of the
G-major triad Gâ??Bâ??D
of the open guitar
strings 2â??3â??4,
ascending motif 1
involving the notes
Eâ??F#â??Aâ??C#
(originally on the first
string), and descending
motif 2 using the notes
E-â??Câ??Bbâ??A-
(originally, on the bass
string 6). These elements
supplement each other to
almost make up twelve
tones (apart from the
missing F), and the
motifs alternate with
ostinato fragments where
each note in the G major
triad is step-by-step
moved by a semitone up or
down. The second
movement is a Scherzo
involving numerous
semitones in accented
chords and fast passages,
as well as chromatic
melodic motion in the
bass voice. It is almost
atonal in some fragments,
but has an overall tonal
center of A-minor. The
third movement is a
meditative Adagio based
on a theme composed
within hexatonic scale
Dâ??Eâ??Fâ??G#â??Aâ?
?B and ostinato chords
involving open bass
strings Eâ??Aâ??D and
semitone
Bâ??C. Finally, the
fourth movement is based
on the complete
twelve-tone theme
consisting of two phrases
including motifs 1 and 2
from the first movement:
Gâ??Fâ??Bbâ??Abâ??Câ
??Ebâ??D and
Eâ??Bâ??C#â??Aâ??F#.
This theme is presented
in its prime and
retrograde forms. There
are dialogues between the
first string, basses and
open middle strings,
similar to the first
movement. In the
culmination, the
twelve-tone theme is
performed using the
parallel motion of the
standard guitar G-major
chord with open middle
strings across twelve
positions. The Sonata
was premiered and
recorded (CD Naxos No.
8.574630) by the
prominent Ukrainian
guitarist Marko Topchii
who has also lived and
studied in Kharkiv. I am
extremely grateful to him
for the brilliant
performance of this
piece. I am greatly
indebted to Productions
dâ??Oz for keeping my
original notations in
places where these do not
conform to the
publisherâ??s style. $9.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle 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.Â
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.Â
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
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| Pop Ballads for String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1064034-070 Arranged by Gunter ...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate SKU:
BT.DHP-1064034-070
Arranged by Gunter Van
Rompaey and Hans Aerts.
Pop & Rock. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2006. 40
pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1064034-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1064034-070).
ISBN 9789043124720.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch. Traditionally a
string quartet will not
readily take on pop
music. But times are
changing and the classic
quartet line-up proves
suitable for beautiful
arrangements of
contemporary songs as
well. This book features
three hits from past
decades, The Rose
(Bette Midler) with its
simple, pure sounds and
underlying harmonies,
La Solitudine
(Laura Pausini) -
compelling and with a
hidden energy and finally
Wonderwall
(Oasis), an unexpected
choice, with its
persistent rhythmic
background. To allow the
string quartet to play
together with optional
guitar or keyboard, chord
symbols have been added
in the score. These songs
- which certainly have a
passionate andromantic
ring to them - are ideal
for receptions, weddings
and other festive
occasions. (Position 1-5)
Drie bekende
songs in geslaagde
bewerkingen voor
strijkkwartet: Pop
Ballads for String
Quartet bewijst dat
het kan. Om het
strijkkwartet de
mogelijkheid te bieden
samen te spelen met
gitaar of keyboards zijn
akkoordsymbolentoegevoegd
in de partituur. Deze
songs vol passie en
romantiek zijn ideaal
voor het opluisteren van
recepties, bruiloften en
andere feestelijke
gelegenheden. (Position
1-5)
Ein Buch
für alle Streicher,
die anstatt der
klassischen Literatur
für Streichquartett
auch einmal etwas ganz
Modernes, Unterhaltsames
spielen wollen. Hans
Aerts und Gunter Van
Rompaey bearbeiteten
für diese Ausgabe drei
bekannte Pop- Titel
für zwei Violinen,
Viola und Cello.
Akkordsymbole für eine
Begleitung von Keyboard
oder Gitarre sind
ebenfalls
enthalten.(Position 1-5)
Ce recueil
contient trois succès
des dernières
décennies : The
Rose, avec ses
sonorités simples et
épurées et ses
harmonies demi cachées
; La Solitudine,
l‘énergie
dissimulée et enfin
Wonderwall, un
choix inattendu dont le
tapis sonore est
continuellement
rythmé. Des symboles
d’accords ont
été ajoutés sur
la partition afin de
permettre au quatuor
cordes de se faire
accompagner d’une
guitare ou clavier
(partie optionnelle).
(Position
1-5)
Questa
pubblicazione permetter
ai giovani musicisti di
cominciare a suonare in
gruppo. Il quartetto
d’archi è da
sempre la formazione per
eccellenza, equilibrata e
potente
nell’espressione.
Anche la musica in stile
pop, arrangiata per
l’occasione da
Hans Aerts, si adatta a
questo tipo di organico.
L’importante è
saper ascoltare la parte
degli altri per inserire
il proprio ritmo
nell’insieme.
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| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720). UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $53.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Renaissance and Baroque Guitar Duets. 2 guitars 2 Guitares (duo) Guitare classique [Partition + CD] Music Minus One
For Guitar. Classical (chamber). Includes a high-quality printed music score wit...(+)
For Guitar. Classical
(chamber). Includes a
high-quality printed
music score with both
primo and secondo guitar
parts; and a compact disc
containing a complete
performance with secondo
guitar on the left
channel, and primo guitar
on the right channel.
Either can be easily
removed for your
performance pleasure.
Published by Music Minus
One.
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| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String
Quartet SKU:
PR.16400272S
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S). UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
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| Carnival of Strings [Conducteur et Parties séparées] De Haske Publications
String Quartet or String Orchestra - easy SKU: BT.DHP-1115120-070 Compose...(+)
String Quartet or String
Orchestra - easy SKU:
BT.DHP-1115120-070
Composed by Rachel
Jennings. De Haske String
Orchestra Series. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2011. 20 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1115120-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1115120-070).
ISBN 9789043142441.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch. The De Haske
String Orchestra
Series offers
attractive pieces
especially composed and
arranged for string
orchestras. Students and
teachers are treated to a
great variety of musical
styles. Each part
presents a challenge to
the player. The Viola
part can be replaced by a
3rd Violin part, and the
Double bass part can be
replaced by a 2nd Cello
part. The Piano part is
mainly meant for support,
but it occasionally adds
new motifs as well.
Carnival of
Strings is a
delightful collection of
dances for beginner
string
orchestras.
De
De Haske String
Orchestra Series
biedt u aantrekkelijke,
speciaal voor
strijkorkest
gecomponeerde en
gearrangeerde werken. De
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van klassiek en folk tot
moderne, populaire
muziek. Iedere partij is
zo geschreven dat elke
speler in het orkest een
uitdaging heeft. De
partij voor altviool kan
door een derde viool
worden vervangen. De
partij voor contrabas kan
ook door een tweede cello
worden gespeeld. De
pianopartij dient als
ondersteuning, maar voegt
soms ook nieuwe motieven
toe aan de muziek.
Carnival of
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De Haske
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compositions et les
arrangements réunis
sous ce label sont en
parfait accord avec le
niveau ciblé, et
proposent des styles
très variés. Chaque
publication est
accompagnée d'un
compact disc contenant la
version de
démonstration des
œuvres publiées
dans cette collection.
L’instrumentation
est toujours la
même : Violons 1
& 2, Alto (ou Violon 3),
Violoncelle, Contrebasse
(ou Violoncelle 2) et
Piano. Carnival of
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sotto questa etichetta
sono perfetti per chi
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prongono stili variegati.
La strumentazione è
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1 & 2, viola (o violino
3), violoncello,
contrabbasso (o
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Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114406980
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980). UPC:
680160010806. Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
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Taught by Cuco Mendoza
and Enrique Martinez. For
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method. Mexican. Level:
Beginning. DVD. Size
5.38x7.50. 60 pages.
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for classical guitar
solo. With standard
guitar notation. 256
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| Clarinet Concerto Clarinette et Piano De Haske Publications
Clarinet and Piano - very difficult SKU: BT.DHP-1165740-401 For Solo B...(+)
Clarinet and Piano - very
difficult SKU:
BT.DHP-1165740-401
For Solo Bb Clarinet
and Piano. Composed
by Jan Van der Roost. De
Haske Clarinet Series.
Book and Part(s).
Composed 2016. 36 pages.
De Haske Publications
#DHP 1165740-401.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(BT.DHP-1165740-401).
ISBN 9789043151511.
English-German-French-Dut
ch. Cette oeuvre en
deux mouvements pour
clarinette et orchestre
fut commandée par
Musica Reservata vof,
Belgique, et est
dédiée Eddy
Vanoosthuyse, un bon ami
et confrère du
compositeur. Elle connut
du succès sa
première mondiale le
10 décembre 2008 Salt
Lake City (Etats-Unis),
interprétée par
l’orchestre Utah
Philharmonia sous la
direction de Robert
Baldwin, avec Eddy
Vanoosthuyse comme
soliste. Par la suite,
l’oeuvre fut mise
de côté pendant
quelques années,
surtout parce que les
agendaschargés des
deux protagonistes ne
leur permettaient pas de
trouver le temps pour un
enregistrement
discographique. Pour
finir, l’oeuvre
fut enfin enregistrée
en juin 2015 Nagoya
(Japon), avec le Central
Aichi Symphony Orchestra,
mené par
l’étoilemontant
e vénézolane,
SergioRosales. La même
semaine, le 12 juin,
l’oeuvre fut
présentée en
concert pour la
première fois au Japon
par les mêmes
interprètes, et connut
ici aussi un grand
succès. Après
Concerto Doppio pour deux
clarinettes et orchestre
cordes, composé en
2001,voici la deuxième
oeuvre de concert de Jan
Van der Roost qui met la
clarinette en
vedette.
Le
premier mouvement,
Doloroso e Contemplativo,
transmet le côté
sérieux de la
clarinette et, par
conséquent, il
n’y figure presque
pas de virtuosité ou
de spectacle. Au
contraire,
l’orchestration
colorée et variée
qui est entrelacée
autour de lapartie solo
est bien plus
qu’un simple
accompagnement, et prend
la forme de
partenairemusical,
d’importance
comparable au soliste.
Une introduction un peu
mystérieuse mène
une première apogée
orchestrale en passant
par des cellules
musicales ascendantes.
Ensuite on entend
l’entrée du
soliste, d’abord
par des idées
musicales
plusfragmentaires, puis
par des lignes
mélodiques plus
longues.
L’orchestre entre
en dialogue avec le
soliste, et son
instrumentation
délicate et colorée
crée un parfait
encadrement musical. Vers
la fin,
l’atmosphère du
début est
réaffirmée, et
lesoliste finit par la
même note par laquelle
il avait
commencé.
Le
deuxième mouvement,
Giocoso e Con Bravura,
est une toute autre
histoire : ici, le
côté virtuose, et
parfois
presqu’acrobatique
, de la clarinette est
exploré. Des cascades
imposantes et
continuelles de notes
demandent une
dextérité
exceptionnelleau soliste,
ce qui, un certain
moment, et «
récompensé » par
l’orchestre, par
un clin d’oeil au
« Hallelujah » de
Handel vraiment
mérité après ces
feux d’artifice !
De temps en temps,
l’instrument solo
présente une phrase
humoristique :
laclarinette ne peut pas
que chanter, briller et
pleurer, mais aussi rire
et plaisanter. Plusieurs
passages sont presque
caricaturaux ! La palette
variée de cet
instrument magnifique est
démontrée
parfaitement, parfois
avec un brin
d’humour
oud’ironie. En
effet, les deux
mouvements contrastants
de ce concerto
démontrent les
différentes facettes
de l’instrument
qui s’est
établi sur la scène
de musique classique
ainsi que la musique
légère (quel nom
peu prometteur !). Dans
le deuxièmemouvement,
rapide pour la plupart du
temps, l’orchestre
est nouveau traité de
manière créative et
variée, offrant une
palette généreuse
de couleurs : sans
enlever
l’attention de la
partie solo difficile, on
peut dire que
l’orchestre
n’est pas
qu’
l’arrière-plan,
mais saisit
l’occasion de
briller en même temps.
Pourtant, les
dernières notes sont
accordées la
clarinette : après un
tuttiorchestral
énergique, le soliste
conclut l’oeuvre
par trois notes courtes
de pianissimo comme si,
de façon subtile, il
voulait avoir le dernier
mot. Après les
nombreuses notes
jouées par le
clarinettiste, cette
conclusion modeste estune
fin surprenante
d’une oeuvre au
style plutôt
traditionnel, qui
démontre clairement la
passion du compositeur
pour cette merveilleuse
combinaison
instrumentale. br> Un
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Knockaert pour cette
réduction pour piano
duClarinet Concerto, qui
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4th International
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by Werner Reif. Sheet
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Edition Dux Verlag #DUX
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ISBN
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dieser Sammlung befindet
sich neben den Klassikern
dieser Zeit erstmals das
Werk Variationen über
Greensleeves des
Hoflautenisten John
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By Christopher Parkening.
Guitar Recorded Version.
Softcover. Guitar
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| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440273S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.14440273S Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 23 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40273S.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.14440273S). UPC:
680160028054. 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. 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.Â
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
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