| String Quartet No. 6
(JALBERT PIERRE) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons,
alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Avancé Schott
Canticle. Par JALBERT PIERRE. Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned b...(+)
Canticle. Par JALBERT PIERRE. Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned by the Chiara String Quartet. It consists of seven movements, highly contrasting in character, with movements I and VII serving as similar bookends to the overall arch of the work. The piece opens with the quartet members striking various crotales, producing bell sounds that eventually blend with the string quartet – evoking the title, Canticle. The faster, pulse-oriented music requires the players to use glass rods on their instruments and at one point quickly moves back and forth between alternating rhythmic subdivisions, producing extremely rapid metric modulations. The last movement blends the string quartet with the bowing of the crotales to produce an ethereal, other-worldly finale to the canticle. Pierre Jalbert / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes
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| More Polytekniks
(Intermed. Cello Duets)
(WATERFIELD POLLY /
LUBACH G) 2 Violoncelles (duo) [Partition] - Facile Faber Music Limited
Par WATERFIELD POLLY / LUBACH G.. This is another volume of lively and entertain...(+)
Par WATERFIELD POLLY / LUBACH G.. This is another volume of lively and entertaining duets, originally composed for Cello. They are designed to encourage the development of good technique. In idioms ranging from the energetic folk music of Eastern Europe to ballads and rhapsodies, More Polytekniks presents a variety of more advanced technical challenges, from vibrato, spiccato, extended position work and tenor clef to double-stopping and metrical changes. More Polytekniks may be enjoyed by a teacher and pupil duo, or by two friends of varying ability. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Recueil / 2 Violoncelles
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| String Quartet No. 4
(LERDAHL FRED) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons,
alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Schott
Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissione...(+)
Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. 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/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes
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| Take Seven Violoncelle, Piano Schott
Take Seven is a tried and trusted showpiece with audience appeal. The title Take...(+)
Take Seven is a tried and trusted showpiece with audience appeal. The title Take Seven is of course a play on Paul Desmond's famous Take Five and its recording by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. As there, the rhythms in this piece are largely based on an asymmetric metre - in this case, 7/4 time. Unlike most jazz pieces with an uneven metre, however, Take Seven goes through various moods, sections and tempo changes, illuminating the main theme from different angles. / Violoncelle Et Piano
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