String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9402 Composed by Mochizuki. Chamber...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9402
Composed
by Mochizuki. Chamber
music. Edition Breitkopf.
Music post-1945; New
music (post-2000). Full
score. Composed 2020.
Duration 7'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9402.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9402).
ISBN 9790004188767. 0
x 0
inches.
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est la quatrieme piece
(ou le quatrieme
mouvement) de mon cycle
<> pour quatuor a
cordes, base sur les
recherches recentes
concernant le
fonctionnement du
cerveau. La piece
s'inspire egalement de
l'interpretation de la
genese du monde telle
qu'abordee dans les
anciens livres japonais,
ou la premiere divinite
creee une deuxieme entite
pensee comme un
<>. C'est a
partir de l'harmonie de
ces deux etres que
naitront par la suite les
nombreux esprits lies a
la cosmogonie japonaise.
J'ai repris cette image
dans ma piece, ou une
sorte de note contenue
dans l'ostinato percussif
du violoncelle
(<>) sera
revelee progressivement
par une note tiree et
vibree au second violon.
Cette vibration, qui
s'accentue dans le
discours devient a la
fois une <>
reprise par l'alto et des
glissandi joues au
premier violon. D'apres
certaines etudes, le
rythme et la melodie ne
stimulent pas les memes
zones du cerveau, cette
construction permet ainsi
l'emergence d'une
communaute de quatre
differentes personnalites
qui s'observent les unes
les autres ; elles
arrivent a imaginer, a
anticiper et meme a
participer a la
realisation des
comportements des autres,
par un processus propre
au fonctionnement du
cerveau nomme
<>. (Misato
Mochizuki,
2000)
World
premiere: Luxembourg,
Philharmonie, October 12,
2020 (Aris-Quartett)
Commissioned by the ECHO
(European Concert Hall
Organisation) for the
Rising Stars-Project.
Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9243 Full Score. Composed by...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9243
Full
Score. Composed by
Christian Mason. Chamber
music; stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. World premiere
of the original version:
London, May 10, 2016World
premiere of the string
orchestra version:
Clermont-Ferrand, October
8, 2020. New music
(post-2000). Full score.
Composed 2016/2020. 40
pages. Duration 19'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9243. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9243).
ISBN
9790004185438. 9 x 12
inches.
It was the
practice of Khoomii
(throat singing) -
following several
workshops with Michael
Ormiston - that first
attracted me to Tuvan
music. Composing this
Songbook, the first in a
series commissioned by
the Ligeti Quartet, I
took the chance to
reflect on compositional
questions around
transcription and
arrangement of existing
music, and frequently
found myself asking:
where is the boundary
between the source
material and the new
substance? Of course the
relationship varies from
piece to piece, and
moment to moment:
sometimes we seem to
glimpse the pure source,
but most of the time
there are differing
degrees of distance,
working towards or away
from it. This new version
for string orchestra
corresponds closely to
the original quartet
version, with an
additional part for
double basses.The
traditional Tuvan songs
that I have transcribed
and recomposed are all
known to me from the Ay
Kherel CD The Music of
Tuva: Throat Singing and
Instruments from Central
Asia (2004, Arc Music).
According to the notes
from that CD, this is
what the songs are
about:1. Dyngylday: If
you have come on a horse
in blue, it doesn't mean
that you are the best. My
heart tells me something
else: my sweetheart
doesn't have such a
beautiful horse, but he
is my darling.An
alternative
interpretation from Alash
Ensemble
(alashensemble.com): The
word dyngylday is a
nonsense term with no
translation. The song
makes good-humored fun of
somebody for being a
good-for-nothing.2. Eki
Attar (The Best Steeds):
The horse is the basis of
our life. It is a magic
creature. Even its step
is full of music and
rhythm. You may not be a
horse rider, but when you
hear this song you will
always remember horses.3.
Kuda Yry: This wedding
song glorifies the
strength of the groom and
the beauty of his
Horse.4. Ezir-Kara
('Black Eagle'): This was
the name of a horse, who
became a legend through
his remarkable strength
and speed.It is not just
overtones that abound
here: there are galloping
rhythms aplenty, and
though I am no horse
rider I tried to keep the
horses galloping in my
imagination while
composing these
pieces.Christian Mason
(with quotes from Ay
Kherel and Alash
Ensemble)
World
premiere of the original
version: London/UK, May
10, 2016, World premiere
of the string orchestra
version:
Clermont-Ferrand/France,
October 8, 2020.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9244 Set of Parts. Composed ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9244
Set of
Parts. Composed by
Christian Mason. Chamber
music; stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. World premiere
of the original version:
London, May 10, 2016World
premiere of the string
orchestra version:
Clermont-Ferrand, October
8, 2020. New music
(post-2000). Set of
parts. Composed
2016/2020. 92 pages.
Duration 19'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9244.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9244).
ISBN 9790004185445. 9
x 12 inches.
It was
the practice of Khoomii
(throat singing) -
following several
workshops with Michael
Ormiston - that first
attracted me to Tuvan
music. Composing this
Songbook, the first in a
series commissioned by
the Ligeti Quartet, I
took the chance to
reflect on compositional
questions around
transcription and
arrangement of existing
music, and frequently
found myself asking:
where is the boundary
between the source
material and the new
substance? Of course the
relationship varies from
piece to piece, and
moment to moment:
sometimes we seem to
glimpse the pure source,
but most of the time
there are differing
degrees of distance,
working towards or away
from it. This new version
for string orchestra
corresponds closely to
the original quartet
version, with an
additional part for
double basses.The
traditional Tuvan songs
that I have transcribed
and recomposed are all
known to me from the Ay
Kherel CD The Music of
Tuva: Throat Singing and
Instruments from Central
Asia (2004, Arc Music).
According to the notes
from that CD, this is
what the songs are
about:1. Dyngylday: If
you have come on a horse
in blue, it doesn't mean
that you are the best. My
heart tells me something
else: my sweetheart
doesn't have such a
beautiful horse, but he
is my darling.An
alternative
interpretation from Alash
Ensemble
(alashensemble.com): The
word dyngylday is a
nonsense term with no
translation. The song
makes good-humored fun of
somebody for being a
good-for-nothing.2. Eki
Attar (The Best Steeds):
The horse is the basis of
our life. It is a magic
creature. Even its step
is full of music and
rhythm. You may not be a
horse rider, but when you
hear this song you will
always remember horses.3.
Kuda Yry: This wedding
song glorifies the
strength of the groom and
the beauty of his
Horse.4. Ezir-Kara
('Black Eagle'): This was
the name of a horse, who
became a legend through
his remarkable strength
and speed.It is not just
overtones that abound
here: there are galloping
rhythms aplenty, and
though I am no horse
rider I tried to keep the
horses galloping in my
imagination while
composing these
pieces.Christian Mason
(with quotes from Ay
Kherel and Alash
Ensemble)
World
premiere of the original
version: London/UK, May
10, 2016, World premiere
of the string orchestra
version:
Clermont-Ferrand/France,
October 8, 2020.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030978 Parts. Composed by Wilhelm Hansen....(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030978
Parts. Composed by
Wilhelm Hansen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00248.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030978).
ISBN
9788759877142. UPC:
888680792640.
9.75x14.5x0.141
inches.
Score
available: KP30120 The
composer writes: The slow
choral-like music which
initiates Adieu was the
result of an image or
almost a dream that I
had. Without being able
to explain why, I
imagined a procession of
people, maybe medieval
munks, wearing large gray
mantles with
Ku-Klux-Klan-like white
cowls on their heads,
something like a funeral
procession. The title
Adieu is partly a comment
on this funeral
procession, but also used
because the piece is
split up by three
slow-ascending glissandi,
a kind of farewell
glissandi which removes
the intervening music.
The first absorbing
glissando is soft and
removes both the slow
funeral choral and the
agitating figures in the
first half of the piece.
The second glissando is
given only to the cello
and crawls out from the
elegiac melodies in the
middle part. The third
and final glissando is
intense and agitating,
and prepares the way for
the end of the piece.
This end primarily deals
with the relationship
fast - slow. This
relationship is turned
topsy turvy: the music
gets faster and faster
until it is so fast that
it suddenly becomes slow,
so slow in fact that it
is very quickly able to
become extremely fast
again.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030979 Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030979
Score. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP30120.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030979).
Parts
available: KP00248 The
composer writes: The slow
choral-like music which
initiates Adieu was the
result of an image or
almost a dream that I
had. Without being able
to explain why, I
imagined a procession of
people, maybe medieval
munks, wearing large gray
mantles with
Ku-Klux-Klan-like white
cowls on their heads,
something like a funeral
procession. The title
Adieu is partly a comment
on this funeral
procession, but also used
because the piece is
split up by three
slow-ascending glissandi,
a kind of farewell
glissandi which removes
the intervening music.
The first absorbing
glissando is soft and
removes both the slow
funeral choral and the
agitating figures in the
first half of the piece.
The second glissando is
given only to the cello
and crawls out from the
elegiac melodies in the
middle part. The third
and final glissando is
intense and agitating,
and prepares the way for
the end of the piece.
This end primarily deals
with the relationship
fast - slow. This
relationship is turned
topsy turvy: the music
gets faster and faster
until it is so fast that
it suddenly becomes slow,
so slow in fact that it
is very quickly able to
become extremely fast
again.
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14001159 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14001159
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Studyscore. Composed
2005. 28 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30120B.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14001159).
ISBN
9788759805527. UPC:
888680792657.
8.25x11.75x0.106
inches.
Study score
to Bent Sorensen's Adieu
for String Quartet. The
slow choral-like music
which initiates Adieu was
the result of an image or
almost a dream that I
had. Without being able
to explain why, I
imagined a procession of
people, maybe medieval
monks, wearing large gray
mantles with
Ku-Klux-Klan-like white
cowls on their heads,
something like a funeral
procession. The title
Adieu is partly a comment
on this funeral
procession, but also used
because the piece is
split up by three
slow-ascending glissandi,
a kind of farewell
glissandi which removes
the intervening music.
The first absorbing
glissando is soft and
removes both the slow
funeral choral and the
agitating figures in the
first half of the piece.
The second glissando is
given only to the cello
and crawls out from the
elegiac melodies in the
middle part. The third
and final glissando is
intense and agitating,
and prepares the way for
the end of the piece.
This end primarily deals
with the relationship
fast - slow. This
relationship is turned
topsy turvy: the music
gets faster and faster
until it is so fast that
it suddenly becomes slow,
so slow in fact that it
is very quickly able to
become extremely fast
again. Bent Sorensen.
Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered ...(+)
Parts for String Quartet
No.3 'Angel's Music' by
Bent Sorensen (1988)
Premiered by the Arditti
String Quartet at the
Danish Radio Concert Hall
16 November 1988. Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angels Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on Angels
Music was started in
Rome, where I spent the
autumn of 1987 staying at
The Danish Academy.
Whether this stay has
influenced the quartet or
not is impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part ofthe
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of Angels
Music is divided into
three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14008374
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 24
pages. Chester Music
#CH68629. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14008374).
ISBN
9781846096150. UPC:
884088435202.
8.25x11.75x0.105
inches.
The Full
Score for Peter Maxwell
Davies' fourth in a
series of ten string
quartets commissioned by
the Naxos Recording
company, first performed
by the Maggini Quartet on
20th August 2004 at the
Chapel of the Royal
Palace, Oslo, Norway, as
part of the Olso Chamber
Music Festival. Composer
Note: The fourth Naxos
quartet was written in
January and February of
2004, with the intention
of producing something
lighter and much less
fierce than its
predecessor, an
unpremeditated and
spontaneous reaction to
the illegal invasion of
Iraq. I returned to the
well-known Brueghel
picture of children's
games (1560, now in
Vienna), which had been
the inspiration for my
sixth Strathclyde
Concerto, for flute and
orchestra. These
illustrations liberated
my musical imagination,
but I feel it would limit
the listener's perception
to be too specific about
which game relates to
exactly which section of
the work. Suffice it to
say that there is
vigorous play -
leap-frog, bind the devil
with a cord, truss,
wrestling - alongside
quieter pastimes - masks,
guess whom I shall
choose, courting, odds
and evens. The single
movement juxtaposes these
activities as abruptly
and intimately as they
occur in Brueghel. Rather
as the eye is taken into
different perspectives
and proportions of scale
within the picture,
taking liberties which
would never be present
in, for instance,
Brunelleschi
architectural drawings,
so here, with a constant
sequence of
transformation processes,
I have distorted the
neat, precise
implications of modal
progression, expressed in
the unison opening phrase
(from F to B through A
sharp/B flat), so that
the ear is led, en route,
into the sound
equivalents of strange
passageways and closed
rooms: sicut exposition
ludus. As work on the
quartet progressed I
became aware that I was
reading into, and behind
the games, adult motives
and implications,
concerning aggression and
war, with their
consequences. It was
impossible to escape into
innocent childhood
fantasy. The nature of
the F to B progression
underlying the whole
construction derives from
a passage in the
development of the first
movement of Mahler's
Third Symphony, and the
opening of Schoenberg's
Second String Quartet.
However, unlike in these
models, here a real - if
temporary - sense of
resolution occurs at the
close of the quartet: as
when the curtain falls on
the reconciled Count and
Countess in 'Figaro' one
wonders how long the F/B
truce will hold, and
games break out again.
The quartet is dedicated
to Giuseppe Rebecchini,
Roman architect, and
friend since the
nineteen-fifties.
Third String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Los Tangos Azules. Composed by Carter Pann (1972-). Sws. Score-and-parts. Dura...(+)
Los Tangos Azules.
Composed
by Carter Pann (1972-).
Sws.
Score-and-parts. Duration
18
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41969.
Published
by Theodore Presser
Company
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.284555 String Quartet. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.284555
String Quartet.
Composed by John Luther
Adams. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2018.
74 pages. Chester Music
#CH87868. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.284555).
UPC:
888680912901. 9x12
inches.
Composers
note:
I never
imagined I would write a
string quartet. Then I
heard the JACK Quartet,
and I understood how I
might be able to make the
medium my own. The result
was The Wind in High
Places - a twenty-minute
work composed entirely on
natural harmonics and
open strings.
Over
the next few years, two
more quartets followed.
The second quartet,
untouched, is a further
exploration of the
aeolian sound world of
the first. Then, in
Canticles of the Sky, the
musicians finally touch
the fingerboards of their
instruments.
And
now comes Everything That
Rises.
This fourth
quartet is more
expansive, both in time
and in space. It grows
out of Sila: The Breath
of the World - a
performance-length
choral/orchestral work
composed on a rising
series of sixteen
harmonic
clouds.
Everything
That Rises traverses this
same territory, but in a
much more melodic
way.
Each musician
is a soloist, playing
throughout. They surround
the audience. Time
floats.
Over the
course of an hour, the
lines spin out - always
rising - in acoustically
perfect intervals that
grow progressively
smaller as they spiral
upward... until the music
dissolves into the soft
noise of the bows,
sighing.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030980 Parts. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030980
Parts. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00249.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030980).
ISBN
9788759871973.
12.0x16.0x0.285
inches.
Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angel's Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on
Angel's Music was started
in Rome, where I spent
the autumn of 1987
staying at The Danish
Academy. Whether this
stay has influenced the
quartet or not is
impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part of the
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of
Angel's Music is divided
into three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the general
pattern almost
fractionally into the
smallest cells of the
music, or more correctly;
crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'.