Enigma Violon et Piano [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.14440516S Com...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Clarinet, Flute, Piano,
Violin
SKU:
PR.14440516S
Composed
by Robert Martin. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 44 pages.
Duration 9 minutes, 15
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40516S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.14440516S).
UPC:
680160667864. 9 x 12
inches.
In 1979,
Martin produced a set of
three quintets, in
consideration of Gorky's
piece Nighttime Enigma
Nostalgia. Each is scored
for flute, clarinet,
violin, cello, and piano.
As the title suggests,
the music is in a state
of perpetual questioning
using a variety of
approaches. For example,
Enigma opens using
ostinati (plural of
ostinato) that do not
match in length, like a
staircase with each step
a different height.
Additionally, the music
has sudden starts and
stops, again unexplained.
There are dramatic and
powerful explosive
passages that are
interrupted. The
technique, used to create
this feeling of a
perplexed music world
where things seem often
not to make sense and to
be left unresolved, is
called in poetry and
literature, anticlimax.
In Enigma, the music
suggests one direction;
then refuses to continue,
striking out in another
direction. Artists use
approaches such as this
to force themselves into
creative circumstances
that they otherwise might
not have discovered.
(From the performance
notes.).
For Violin and Piano - with Comments in English. By Franz Schubert. Edited by E....(+)
For Violin and Piano -
with Comments in English.
By Franz Schubert. Edited
by E. Herttrich. Violin.
Pages: Score = 91 * Vl
Part = 32. Urtext
edition-paper bound.
Published by G. Henle.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: CF.MXE71 Composed by Martin Br...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
CF.MXE71
Composed by
Martin Bresnick. SWS.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 23+6+5
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#MXE71. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.MXE71).
ISBN 9781491144749.
UPC: 680160902248. 9 x 12
inches.
The day
that Australian and New
Zealand forces joined the
Allies for an invasion of
the Gallipoli Peninsula
of Turkey in World War I,
with disastrous
consequences, is
celebrated in Australia
as Anzac Day (Australian
and New Zealand Army
Corps). To honor this
special day, Bresnick
takes inspiration from
two selected poems by
Bertolt Brecht (And I
Always Thought and Legend
of the Unknown Soldier
Beneath the Triumphal
Arch). Commissioned to
commemorate
Australia’s Anzac
Day, similar to Memorial
Day, and inspired by two
Brecht poems…The
somber opening violin and
clarinet lines unfolded
to haunting effect before
eventually reaching a
fervent climax. --Vivien
Schweitzer, The New York
Times.