Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. Spiral-bound.
Set of parts. Greenblatt
& Seay #BSG4PROMAR-P.
Published by Greenblatt &
Seay (GS.BSG4PROMAR-P).
8.5 x 11
inches.
30
energetic pieces to get
your audience motivated,
and their toes tapping.
All four parts share the
interesting melodic bits,
and the relentless
rhythms that provide the
energy to forge ahead.
You will enjoy sharing
some old favorites, like
Mendelssohn's Wedding
March, Wagner's Bridal
March, and for you Alfred
Hitchcock fans, Gounod's
Funeral March of a
Marionette. This
collection also includes
works by Sousa, Frederick
II, Joplin, Mozart,
Schubert, etc.
Composed by Bert Ligon.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Quartet; String
Quartet. Latham Music.
Score and Part(s). Latham
Music Enterprises
#36-52703028. Published
by Latham Music
Enterprises
(AP.36-52703028).
ISBN
9781682962084. UPC:
746241248886.
English.
The
perfect variety album for
holiday gigs or concerts.
These arrangements
include some fun quotes
from classical tunes you
will recognize and as
usual, are evenly and
lusciously scored by Bert
Ligon to give everyone a
shot at the tune.
Contents: I'll Be Home
for Christmas, Sleigh
Ride, Have Yourself a
Merry Little Christmas,
and You're a Mean One,
Mr. Grinch.
These products
are currently being
prepared by a new
publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.
String quartet SKU: M7.DOHR-88815 Variations for String Quartet. C...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
M7.DOHR-88815
Variations for String
Quartet. Composed by
Adrian Connell. Sheet
music. Score and parts.
48 pages. Duration 15'.
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) #DOHR 88815.
Published by MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
(M7.DOHR-88815).
ISBN
9790202098158.
On
the workFor many years I
was the director of
festive music at our
local church in
Orpington. I always
carried a little music
notebook on me for use
during the sermons. I
remember writing a series
of notes, as a challenge
to use as a melody when I
got home, then I realised
it used all twelve notes
of the scale. Having been
penned during a sermon, I
decided to use this as a
structure. The tone row
became the sermon and the
following variations the
reactions to this sermon.
As a clue to the ideas
behind the music, I added
sectional headings to
each variation. While
this is a serious work
musically, it is actually
meant to be a piece of
fun! (Adrian
Connell)Duration: 15
minutes.
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
String Quartet SKU: PR.16400222S Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (stu...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
PR.16400222S
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Full
score (study). With
Standard notation.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00222S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400222S).
UPC:
680160037841.
This
work follows my Quartet
No. 1 by five years. In
terms of style and
aesthetic aim, however,
it seems light years
away. Where the first
work, a 28-minute,
four-movement piece, took
aim at cosmic conflicts
and heroic resolutions,
the present work is
intended as a kind of
divertissment. Harbor
Music lasts a mere eleven
minutes, is cast in a
single movement with six
sections, and should
leave both performers and
listeners with a feeling
of good humor and
affection. The
title comes from my
experience as a guest in
the magnificent city of
Sydney, Australia. One of
its most attractive
features is its unique
system of ferry boats:
the city is laid out
around a large,
multi-channeled harbor,
with destinations more
easily approached by
water than by land.
Consequently, inhabitants
of Sydney get around on
small, people-friendly
boats that come and go
from the central docks at
Circular Quay. During a
week's visit in 1991, I
must have boarded these
boats at least a dozen
times, always bound for a
new location - the resort
town of Manley, or the
Zoo at Taronga Park, or
the shopping district at
Darling Harbour.
In casting about for a
form for my second string
quartet, a kind of loose
rondo came to mind. Each
new destination would be
approached from the same
starting-out point
(although there are
subtle variations in the
repeating theme; it's
always in a new key, and
the texture is never the
same). The result, I
hope, is a sense of
constant new information
presented with
introductory frames of a
more familiar nature.
The embarkation
theme, which begins the
piece, is a sort of
bi-tonal fanfare in which
the violins are in G
major and the viola and
cello are in B-flat
major. It is bold, eager,
and forward-looking. The
first voyage maintains
this bi-tonality,
beginning as a 9/8 due
for second violin and
viola in a kind of
rocking motion -much as a
boat produces when
reaching the deeper water
in the harbor. A sweet,
nostalgic theme emerges
over this rocking
accompaniment. This music
is developed somewhat,
then transforms quickly
into a much faster and
lighter episode, filled
with rising and falling
scales (again, in
differing keys). A
scherzando interlude in
short notes and changing
meters provides contrast,
and the episode ends with
a reprise of the scales.
The second
embarkation follows, this
time in A major/C major.
It leads quickly into a
very warm and slow theme,
in wide-leaping intervals
for the viola. This
section is interrupted
twice by solo cadenzas
for the cello, suggesting
distant boat-horns in
major thirds. The end of
the episode becomes a
transition, with
boat-horns leading into
the final appearance of
the embarkation music,
this time in trills and
tremolos instead of
sharply accented chords.
The nostalgic theme of
the first episode makes a
final appearance, serving
now as a coda. The
rocking motion continues,
in a lullaby fashion,
leaving us drowsy and
satisfied on our homeward
journey. Harbor
Music was written for the
Cavani Quartet, and is
dedicated to Richard J.
Bogomolny. Commissioned
by his employees at First
National Supermarkets as
a gift, it represents a
thank you from many of
the people (including
this composer) who have
benefitted from his
vision and generosity. An
ardent advocate of
chamber music (and a
cellist himself), Mr.
Bogomolny has for many
years been Chairman of
the Board of Chamber
Music America. -- Dan
Welcher.
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743.
Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
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