String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.51487272 Study Score. Compose...(+)
String Quartet (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.51487272
Study
Score. Composed by
Alexander Zemlinsky.
Edited by Dominik Rahmer.
Henle Music Folios.
Classical. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN7272. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51487272).
UPC:
840126989366.
6.75x9.5x0.245
inches.
Alexander
Zemlinsky's music was
long unjustly
overshadowed by what was
regarded as the
“more
progressive†Second
Viennese School. Although
Zemlinsky was close
friends with its
protagonist Arnold
Schönberg, he never
did take the latter's
radical step into
dodecaphony. At the same
time, he composed works
that were no less
original or fully
fledged. Composed between
1913 and 1915, his Second
String Quartet in
particular pushed the
contemporaneous
understanding of form and
tonality to its limits.
With just one movement
but spanning over 1,200
measures, this
multi-faceted work
numbers among the most
significant contributions
to the genre of the time
and has long merited a
critical new edition. The
Urtext edition by G.
Henle Publishers corrects
many errors and
inaccuracies in the first
edition that came to
light after careful
comparison with the
autograph sources in
Vienna and Washington.
For the first time, too,
the metronome markings
that survive only in one
of Zemlinsky's letters
have been incorporated.
Editorial work was kindly
supported by the
Alexander Zemlinsky
Endowment Fund in
Vienna.
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String Quartet No. 8 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144407270 Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144407270
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Sws. Set of Score and
Parts. 44+16+16+16+16
pages. Duration 22
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40727. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.144407270).
UPC:
680160681891. 9 x 12
inches.
My Eighth
and Ninth String
Quartets, begun in late
2017, are sonic cousins.
Akin to real cousins,
each piece exhibits
differing natures. They
were requested by two
ensembles that have
become asecond familiesa
to me: The Jupiter
Quartet of Urbana,
Illinois and the Amernet
Quartet based in Miami,
Florida. Their collective
dedication to, and care
for, our art remains a
personal and constant
are-fuelinga for me. The
quartets were
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, Margaret
and Philip Verleger of
Denver, Colorado.
Additional financial
support was provided by
the School of Music at
Stetson University,
Timothy Peter, Dean.
Quartet No.8 is laid out
in a classical
four-movement design. The
work does break somewhat
from conventional
tradition by often
placing quartet members
into soloistic roles as
the movement titles note.
individual The opening
piece presents at the
outset a three-note motto
which is turned over,
tumbled, and
energetically discussed,
primarily by a violin
duet. It is a duel. The
two players part company
only infrequently during
the movement's progress,
pausing briefly for other
commentary by their
alower cohortsa, the
Viola and Cello do not
argue, but abet their
friends' aeffortsa. The
piece's overall character
is fairly bright and
dancelike, closing in an
unresolvedastandoffa. not
Two principal
asound-objectsa stitch
the second movement
scherzo together: sliding
hands (glissandos) and a
plucked ashufflea
(pizzicato) - both
instigated by the (solo)
cellist. The others are
influenced - or are not -
by their aleadera, and
follow - or interrupt -
the cello throughout
their four-voiced
conversation. The third
movement (longest of the
set) is an elegy
dedicated to the memory
of a close personal
friend, the American
composer David Maslanka
(1943 - 2017). Its'
genesis is a simple
5-note melody derived
from my own name
(SaC/DaC/EaC/H). This
line commences in the
(solo) viola and is
obsessively uttered
without relief during the
movement's lamentations.
The closing movement
revisits much of that
opening three-note
material, but now dressed
up for the full quartet
to view. It is a slowly
accelerating romp which -
twice - cannot avoid a
nod to the Amernet and
Jupiter performers by
offering a humble bow to
the 4th movement of
Gustav Holst's PLANETS -
Jupiter: The Bringer of
Jollity. My quartet
serves as an honouring
salute of thanks for the
talent, respect, and
friendship of these two
young quartets. STRING
QUARTET No. 8 is roughly
22 minutes in duration.
It was written as an
homage to Franz Joseph
Haydn, my
adesert-island-composera,
and completed in Holly
Hill, Florida in early
April of 2019. S.H.
String quartet SKU: NR.68489 Für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
NR.68489
Für zwei
Violinen, Viola und
Violoncello, opus 46.
Composed by Andre Georges
Louis Onslow. Chamber
music (3-9 instruments).
Score. Noten Roehr
#68489. Published by
Noten Roehr (NR.68489).
String Quartet No. 13 Piano Trio: Violon, Alto, Piano [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Sikorski
By Mieczyslaw Weinberg. For String Quartet (Score and Parts). G Schirmer String ...(+)
By Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
For String Quartet (Score
and Parts). G Schirmer
String Ensemble. Book
only. 56 pages. Sikorski
#SIK2413. Published by
Sikorski
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14023668 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14023668
Composed by Michael
Nyman. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 1993. 22
pages. Chester Music
#CH60865. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14023668).
ISBN
9780711932975.
9.0x12.0x0.095
inches.
String
Quartet No.3 was written
for, and first performed
by the Balanescu Quartet,
February 1990 at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall,
London. Duration 16
minutes. Instrumental
parts are available on
sale. Quoting composer:
In the summer of 1989 I
composed a choral work,
Out of the Ruins, for
Agnieszka Piotrowska's
BBC2 documentary which
dealt with the physical
and emotional responses
of some inhabitants of
Leninakhan to the
earthquake which
devastated Armenia the
previous December. When
he heard the recording of
the work that I made with
the Holy Echmiadzin
Chorus under the fervent
conducting of Khoren
Meykhanejian, Alex
Balanescu suggested
turning Out of the Ruins
into a string quartet.
There seemed no reason or
opportunity to do this
until I felt the need to
add to the intensity of
my experiences in Armenia
the no less profound
experience of witnessing
the images of the
Romanian revolution on
television during the
later part of December
1989. The compositional
procedure was as follows:
to take Out of the Ruins
as a template on which
the Romanian vocal or
instrumental music would
be superimposed, quite
often stretched into new
intervallic shapes though
the demands of the
completely performed
harmonic structure.
Irish composer Kevin Volans' work has gained international acclaim over the year...(+)
Irish composer Kevin
Volans' work has gained
international acclaim
over the years. Drawing
on a combination of
European and African
compositional techniques,
his music displays a
unique charm. Volans'
distinctive sound is
heavily in demand, and
since the mid-1980s his
work has been performed
regularly at such venues
as the Pompidou Centre,
the Royal Albert Hall and
the Lincoln Center in New
York. This work for
string quartet was
commissioned by the
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Company, and was first
performed on the 16th
December 1990 at the
Almeida Theatre, London,
by the Smith Quartet. Set
of parts. Score
available: CH61341
(Study Score). Composed by Alban Berg (1885-1935). Edited by Ulrich Scheideler. ...(+)
(Study Score). Composed
by Alban Berg
(1885-1935). Edited by
Ulrich Scheideler. For
String Quartet (Study
Score). Henle Study
Scores. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN7000. Published
by G. Henle
(Parts). Composed by Alban Berg (1885-1935). Edited by Ulrich Scheideler. For St...(+)
(Parts). Composed by
Alban Berg (1885-1935).
Edited by Ulrich
Scheideler. For String
Quartet. Henle Music
Folios. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN1000. Published
by G. Henle