String
Quartet. Composed by
Richard Reed Parry. Music
Sales America. Classical,
Contemporary. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2015. 12 pages. Chester
Music #CH83149. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14043527).
9.25x12.0x0.091
inches.
English.
Richard
Reed Parry 's Quartet For
Heart And Breath is an
innovative and original
piece based on the
performers' own bodily
rhythms. This sheet music
is for String Quartet
(Violin/Violin/Viola/Cell
o). Richard Reed Parry is
familiarto millions as
the lead singer of rock
band Arcade Fire, yet his
foray into classical
music is equally worthy
of attention. Quartet For
Heart And Breath is an
experiment into using the
performers' heartbeats
and breathing to dictate
the tempo. The performers
are instructed to wear
stethoscopes in order to
listen to their
heartbeats closely, while
one complete breath
corresponds to one bar
and two heartbeats equal
two crotchets. The result
is a quiet and subtle
piece, as each instrument
has to play softly so as
to be able to keep in
time. The piece also has
a naturally occurring
dynamism in that the
players' heart rates
constantly change as the
performance goes on, with
each instrument falling
in and out of sync
sometimes culminating in
a beautiful moment of all
heartbeats matching each
other. Interestingly,
this unique aspect means
that no performance will
ever be the same, meaning
to hear or play this
composition will be a
truly once in a lifetime
experience. Quartet For
Heart And Breath is a
superbly one-of-a-kind
composition by Richard
Reed Parry . Commissioned
by the Kronos Quartet,
this piece makes for a
wonderfully distinctive
performance, with
fascinating implications
for the connection
between the music and the
body.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030978 Parts. Composed by Wilhelm Hansen....(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030978
Parts. Composed by
Wilhelm Hansen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00248.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030978).
ISBN
9788759877142. UPC:
888680792640.
9.75x14.5x0.141
inches.
Score
available: KP30120 The
composer writes: 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
munks, 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.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030979 Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030979
Score. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP30120.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030979).
Parts
available: KP00248 The
composer writes: 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
munks, 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.
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14001159 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
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.
Trombone, String Quartet SKU: HL.14023162 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
Trombone, String Quartet
SKU: HL.14023162
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 28 pages. Music
Sales #KP01123. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14023162).
ISBN
9788759860960.
Danish.
Nocturnal
(1998-2001) for Trombone
and String Quartet was
composed by Bent Sorensen
. Progamme note: The two
movements of Nocturnal
were written with a gab
of three years. The last
movement, which bears the
title The Wings of Night,
was commisioned by Warsaw
Autumn in 1998, while the
first movement -
Mondnacht - was
commisioned for Ultima
Festival in Oslo in 2001.
Despite the three years
gab, these are not two
separate pieces which
have been linked
together. The sketches
for the first movement
were begun immediately
after the first
performance of the second
movement in Warsaw 1998.
As the title suggests,
there is a nocturnal
atmosphere in the work.
In the first movement
weare perhaps in a park
and notice the shadows of
the clouds passing the
bright moon. In the short
second movement we are
perhaps with
Shakespeare's Juliet,
calling for love, calling
for the night: Come
night, come Romeo, come,
thou day in night, For
thou wilt lie upon the
wings of night Whither
than snow upon a raven's
back. ...perhaps we are
elsewhere - at night!
Nocturnal was written for
Christian Lindberg and
the Arditti Quartet and
premiered in Oslo in
2001.