String quartet SKU: HL.49045639 Chaconne. Composed by Fred Lerdahl...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HL.49045639
Chaconne. Composed
by Fred Lerdahl. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2016.
108 pages. Duration 990
seconds. Schott Music #ED
30174. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045639).
ISBN
9781540004796. UPC:
888680710774.
9.5x12.0x0.37
inches.
Chaconne
(2016), for string
quartet, was commissioned
by the Daedalus Quartet
to celebrate its 15th
anniversary. The
commission was supported
by New Music USA, made
possible by annual
program support and/or
endowment gifts from
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, Helen F.
Whitaker Fund, and Aaron
Copland Fund for Music.My
music has a substantial
history with Daedalus. I
composed the Third String
Quartet (2008) for them,
and subsequently they
performed my three string
quartets on several
occasions and recorded
them brilliantly on
Bridge Records (Bridge
9352: Music of Fred
Lerdahl, vol. 3).
Chaconne is in one
movement lasting 19
minutes. It is
effectively my fourth
string quartet. Quartets
1-3 form a unified cycle
lasting 70 minutes. When
I finished the cycle, I
thought I would never
write again for the
medium; yet I could not
resist the opportunity of
working again with
Daedalus. The issue was
how to compose another
string quartet unrelated
to the earlier cycle. The
solution came from my
solo cello piece There
and Back Again (2010),
which was based on a
four-bar variation
pattern from a
17th-century chaconne.
Unlike the asymmetrical
phrases and expanding
variations of much of my
music, the chaconne form
requires symmetrical
phrases and strictly
periodic variations. I
wished to work again with
these symmetries but on a
larger scale. Chaconne
also differs in character
and expression from the
three-quartet cycle. The
cycle is inward and
intense, a kind of
psychological excavation.
Chaconne is, for the most
part, transparent and
playful. Many of its
textures emerge from
little canons, not
completely unlike the
rounds that children
sing. Any composer who
writes in chaconne form
(one thinks above all of
the last movement of
Bach's D minor violin
partita and the finale of
Brahms's Fourth Symphony)
is confronted with the
challenge of how to
create a larger form out
of a constantly repeating
pattern.My Chaconne grows
from paired
antecedent-consequent
phrases, each variation
lasting eight bars. The
50 variations group into
three large rotations,
forming three arcs of
tension and relaxation,
with subtle parallel
connections across the
rotations.
Notwithstanding my
attraction to chaconne
form, I purposefully
disguised its symmetries
and periodicities in
order to build an overall
dramatic shape. Fred
Lerdahl.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14035177 Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales Ame...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14035177
Composed
by Kevin Volans. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 32 pages.
Chester Music #CH61341.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14035177).
ISBN 9780711979406.
8.25x11.75x0.142
inches.
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.
Score. Parts available:
CH61342.
Music Sales America.
Post-1900. Sheet Music,
Score. With Text
language: English.
Chester Music #CH71148.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14023639).
UPC: 884088814373.
8.0x12.0
inches.
The
composer made this
arrangement of the Third
String Quartet for string
orchestra in March 2003.
The first performance was
given by the Eos
Orchestra, New York,
conducted by Ken Selden
in the Concert Hall,
Ethical Cultural Society,
New York City on 24 April
2003.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 of the
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
latter part of December
1989.Just as the
structure of my Third
String Quartet (1990) may
connect it with the
First, so they also share
a debt to Thurston Dart
(my professor at King's
College, London, between
1961 and 1965). It was
Dart who had the
inspiration to send me to
Romania in 1965,
ostensibly to study folk
music. The volumes of
transcriptions that I
brought back with me had
remained unopened until,
with this proposed
'celebratory' string
quartet (though at the
time it was difficult to
know quite what to
celebrate in
postrevolutionary
Romania), an occasion
arose where I could use
this material in what
seemed to me was a
non-exploitative manner.
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
through the demands of
the completely pre-formed
harmonic structure.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14031801 Composed by Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss. Mu...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14031801
Composed
by Sir Arthur Drummond
Bliss. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 56 pages. Music
Sales #NOV120144.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14031801).
7.0x10.0x0.28
inches.
Sir
Arthur Bliss
(1891-1975) was a British
composer and conductor.
He studied under Wood and
Stanford at Cambridge and
the Royal College of
Music, where he met and
drew inspiration from
Vaughan Williams, Holst,
Howells, and Goossens. He
was appointed Master of
the Queen's Music in 1953
and wrote music for many
state occasions,
including the Coronation
and the Funeral of
Winston Churchill.
The String
Quartet No.1 in Bb
Major was first
published in 1941. It was
actually the third String
Quartet Bliss
composed, but the first
two were early works
which he withdrew or
lost. It was written in
America in 1940 and first
performed inBerkeley,
California; it became the
last work he wrote before
he returned to Britain to
help the war effort.
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Bote and Bock
String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.48024228 Composed by Isang Yun. Bo...(+)
String Quartet (Score &
Parts)
SKU:
HL.48024228
Composed
by Isang Yun. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 110
pages. Bote & Bock
#M202534748. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48024228).
ISBN
9781540057310. UPC:
888680949266. 9x12
inches.
For Isang
Yun, String Quartet No. 3
from 1959 marked the
beginning of his European
creative phase and of his
official canon of works.
Now it is possible to
encounter Yun's early
works from his Korean
period in the form of his
String Quartet No. 1
(1955). Three important
10-minute movements
containing references not
only to Asia but also to
Ravel, Bartók and
Eastern European folk
musicand having an
idiosyncratic structure:
“Yun lines up forms
and figures, makes them
emerge from each other in
a contrasting manner and
assembles them into a
mosaic-like whole,
seeking for integration,
laying down his material
in layer upon layer and
ending the movements with
a rhythmic unison. []
Even then, he probably
regarded a work of art as
an energetic stream of
sounds and as a
reflection of a world
whose diverging parts
weave into a harmonic
whole.”
(Walter-Wolfgang
Sparrer).
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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