String quartet

SKU: M7.DOHR-20172

Composed by George Frideric Handel. Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. Sheet music. Score and parts. MDS (Music Distribution Services) #DOHR 20172. Published by MDS (Music Distribution Services) (M7.DOHR-20172).

ISBN 9790202041727.

Bei dem Stück handelt es sich um die Sinfonia zum dritten Akt aus Händels Oratorium Solomon HWV 67. Der dritte Akt handelt von dem glänzenden Fest, das König Salomo für die Königin von Saba veranstaltet. Das Vorspiel gleicht einem sprühenden Klangfeuerwerk.

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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Parts String Quartet

SKU: HL.50602056

For String Quartet Parts. Composed by Judith Weir. String. Softcover. Chester Music #CH88051-01. Published by Chester Music (HL.50602056).

UPC: 888680951467. 8.5x11.0x0.06 inches.

A two-minute string quartet by the Master of the Queen's music commissioned by The Royal Society of Musicians and first performed by the Shanghai String Quartet at Wigmore Hall, London, on 1st February 2019. Score available: CH88051.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14023641

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 1993. 80 pages. Chester Music #CH61116. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023641).

ISBN 9780711964082. 9.0x12.0x0.219 inches.

String Quartet No.4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, Alan Bush. This quartet is a narrative made up of a chain of twelve complete but often cross-related movements, each quite simple in design. For instance, the Scottish melody first heard in the second half of I is hinted at in the 2nd violin/viola in the second fast section of II and is directly quoted again during III and XII. The theme of the fast section of IV is taken up again in VIII; IX reverts to the mood of the opening of I, while the rising scale/syncopated themes of II, IX and the bass of X and XII are related. X also reintroduces the slow harmonics theme from VII. XII is (apparently) cast in the form of a baroque French rondeau. The main theme of VI was plucked out of the Quartet and used in my score for Christopher Hampton's film Carrington. Duration 40 minutes. A set of parts is available for sale.

String Quartet (Score & Parts) - Grade 3-4

SKU: HL.4492048

By Queen. By Freddie Mercury. Arranged by Larry Moore. Pops For String Quartet. Pop, Rock. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.4492048).

UPC: 888680699727. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.

(String Quartet)

SKU: HL.50602171

Parts. Composed by Helen Grime. String. Softcover. Chester Music #CH88085-01. Published by Chester Music (HL.50602171).

UPC: 888680975937.

Commi ssioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with financial support from Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust and Hope Scott Trust. First performed on 21st May 2014 by the Edinburgh Quartet, at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.11441511S

For String Quartet. Composed by Martin Kennedy. Premiere: Musica Reginae, Flushing Town Hall; Flushing, Queens. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2006. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41511S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441511S).

UPC: 680160600113. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Kennedy's first composition for string quartet was the result of a commission by Musica Reginae, although the composer was eager to write for such an ensemble, anyway. The Suite was entered under the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Project 440, where it garnered such comments as, Excitement, energy, beauty, craft are all here, and This composer definitely has the knack to write for strings. For advanced performers. Duration: 15'.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.114415110

For String Quartet. Composed by Martin Kennedy. Premiere: Musica Reginae, Flushing Town Hall; Flushing, Queens. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2006. 36+12+12+12+12 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41511. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114415110).

UPC: 680160600090. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Kennedy's first composition for string quartet was the result of a commission by Musica Reginae, although the composer was eager to write for such an ensemble, anyway. The Suite was entered under the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Project 440, where it garnered such comments as, Excitement, energy, beauty, craft are all here, and This composer definitely has the knack to write for strings. Read more about the Suite at the Project 440 page here (with 5-minute audio clip). For advanced performers. Duration: 15'.