For String Quartet. Composed by Toru Takemitsu (1930- 1996) and Joseph Kosma. String. Softcover. 26 pages. Schott Music #SJ1189. Published by Schott Music

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14019768

Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 28 pages. Chester Music #CH5540101. Published by Chester Music (HL.14019768).

UPC: 884088491130. 8.25x11.75x0.15 inches.

Maconchy String Quartet No.10 was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival 1972. Duration 15 minutes. Score only edition.

String Quartet (Parts)

SKU: HL.14037707

Parts. Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales America. Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2010. 80 pages. Chester Music #CH7452501. Published by Chester Music (HL.14037707).

ISBN 9781849385916. UPC: 884088578626. 8.25x11.75x0.262 inches.

Kevin Volans' String Quartet No. 9: Shiva Dances was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by the Smith Quartet at the 2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Kevin Volans (the composer) notes on the piece:
In the past I have been interested in trying to go beyond historicism (1970s), beyond style(1980s) and beyond form (1990s) in my work. Looking back over the music of the twentiethcentury I was struck by the fact the nearlyall of it is extremely 'busy', almost cluttered. Italmost seemed that composers felt compelled to look industrious. In the new millennium Ithought it would be interesting to try and eliminate content. I also aspired to movingfrommusic (sound as art) to art (art as sound). This, of course, has already been done by a numberof composers (many from New York - Phil Niblock and La Monte Young, to name but two), butit was something I had never tried.AlthoughI found it annoying that the label 'minimalist' was given to my African-based work,and fearing this would make the label stick, I set out to write a piece which reflected my loveof minimal painting and architecture. The Japanesehave a term 'wabi' meaning 'voluntarypoverty' or 'emptiness' to describe their restrained minimal aesthetic, an aesthetic which,however, pays greatest attention to the quality of material and fine detail. I like to think thatthelack of excessive pitch material in this piece reflects a kind of voluntary poverty.When Shiva is portrayed dancing (as Nataraj) He is depicted in a circle of flames crushing asmall figure - the ego - underfoot.You get theimpression He dances on the spot, not movingaround at all. I like that.
The piece is dedicated to Pablo Pascual Cilleruelo.

String Quartet

SKU: BT.EMBZ13959

Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 1995. 24 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ13959. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ13959).

The premiere of the so called 'third string quartet' composed in 1988/89 was given on the 1989 Witten Festival in the rendering of the Auryn Quartet.

Pyramus and Thisbe By Jocelyn Pook Was Commissioned By The City Of London Festival. First Performance By Brodsky Quartet And Lore Lixenberg At Drapers' Hall, London On 24Th June 2013

String quartet String Quartet - Advanced

SKU: PR.14440530S

Composed by David Felder. 144-40530. Contemporary. Full score (study). With Standard notation. Composed 1988. 24 pages. Theodore Presser Company #144-40530S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440530S).

UPC: 680160584796. 9.5 x 13 inches.

Featured on the Bridge Records CD Music of David Felder, as recorded by the Arditti String Quartet. Felder's Third Face was given its first performance by the Arditti, at the 1988 Buffalo new music festival. I was struck by it then; after further hearings of it I admire it even more. It is lucid, but with a controlled wildness in its making. Written for virtuosi, it challenges them by presenting its fierce, fertile ideas with almost reckless rhythmic and dynamic exuberance. (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker) For advanced performers. Duration: 11'.

Score and Parts

SKU: HL.367874

Score and Parts. Composed by Donald Crockett. LKM Music. Softcover. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #X504092. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.367874).

ISBN 9781705140307. UPC: 840126966664. 9.0x12.0x0.523 inches.

Commissione d by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emotional range. Inspired by two end-of-civilization novels the composer was reading prior to composing the work, the quartet unfolds in a single movement, loosely based on plot lines in both novels. One of the novels includes a Traveling Symphony, an assortment of musicians and actors who travel the countryside for decades playing symphonies, jazz and orchestral arrangements of popular music alongside performances of Shakespeare plays, reminiscent of medieval troupes traveling the countryside in plague-ridden times. The work is written so that the quartet embodies the Traveling Symphony, not only playing music but also singing and 'stage whispering' fragments of King Lear and other text across the collection of nine scenes.

Arranged by Tyler Arcari. Solo and Ensemble. Excelcia Ensemble Series. Traditional Sea Shanty. Excelcia Music Publishing #SGS42101. Published by Excelcia Music Publishing

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.11441626S

Composed by Samuel Adler. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed August 19 2013. 36 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41626S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441626S).

UPC: 680160620067. 9 x 12 inches.

The String Quartet No. 10 was written in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival and is dedicated to the Cassatt Quartet who premiered the work during the 50th anniversary celebration in July 2014.  The work was written with a generous grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.The 10th String Quartet is in one continuous movement but divided into four sections.  The first section is a slow introduction which presents the basic harmonic material of the entire work.  This is suddenly interrupted by a very agitated movement forming a great contrast to the calm of the beginning.  This rhythmic drive comes to a stop and is relieved by the third section which is a variation of the beginning, but is a bit longer and more developed.  This is followed by the final section which again captures the agitation of the second section and brings the work to a wild and most aggressive end.—Samuel Adler.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14043647

Score. Composed by Bryce Dessner. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2015. 20 pages. Chester Music #CH83732. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043647).

9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.

This is the full score for Aheym by Bryce Dessner, who is best known as the guitarist of The National, but is also an acclaimed composer in his own right.Composed in 2009 for the Kronos Quartet for their performance in Brooklyn's Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. The piece lasts around 10 minutes and is arranged for string quartet.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.11441783S

Composed by Carter Pann. Premiered at the ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2014. 46 pages. Duration 30 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41783S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441783S).

UPC: 680160636884.

With support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, Pann's Second String Quartet was written for the Takacs Quartet to honor the contributions of NancyBell Coe as president of the Music Academy of the West. The Takacs, hailed as one of the world's greatest ensembles, performed the work as part of a weeklong series of masterclasses at the Academy's Summer Festival 2015. The Second String Quartet is made up of six descriptive movements: I. L'Extase, II. Precipitato, III. Passacaglias, IV. Commute, V. Adjusting the Torque, VI. Escher's Rounds. For advanced performers.

String Quartet and Pre-recorded Sound. Composed by Michael Daugherty (1954-). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover with CD, Score and Parts. 52 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051105922. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Parts Only. Composed by Philip Glass (1937-). Music Sales America. Softcover. Chester Music #DU1114301. Published by Chester Music (HL.14048308).

Accordian & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y279

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. Score and Parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y279. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y279).

ISBN 9790220223068.

Such is the character of the accordion that any work featuring its distinctive voice within an ensemble is likely to be a piece d'occasion. Written for the prizewinning young soloist Milos Milivojevic and performed with the Juritz String Quartet at the 2011 Machynlleth Festival in Wales, Rhian Samuel's Mist on the Hills is no exception. The composer has used the rare opportunity of writing for the instrument in combination with solo strings to exploit its illustrative powers and create a fourteen-minute score inspired by the changing weather over the hills around her Welsh home on the Dyfi Estuary.

In particular, its three movements are suggestive of the appearance of mist in the landscape, 'settling', 'lingering' and 'swirling'. In the first movement, which is a gentle prelude, brief accordion motifs break through the timbre of strings like glints of sunshine through mist. The second movement, more song-like, presents three verses of a lament; in the first half of each verse the accordion sings as if from afar, while in the second half (led by the viola) the music intensifies greatly. In the dance-like and virtuosic last movement a short, constantly changing refrain alternates with two types of material: 'swirling' music and lighter, more rhythmical ideas. Finally, scale passages invade the texture, ceasing only as the accordion ascends to the top of its range in the closing bars.

String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-292-6

Composed by Einar Englund. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-292-6).

ISBN 9790-55011-292-6.

T his commission from the Jyvaskyla Summer Festival was dedicated to Matti Rautio, a fellow composer. There is a romantic undercurrent vibrating under the neoclassical surface of this work in four movements. The total duration is ca. 23 minutes.

String quartet - Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193577671

Composed by William Mathias. String Quartets. Score and parts. 108 pages. Duration 29'. Oxford University Press #9780193577671. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193577671).

ISBN 9780193577671. 12 x 8 inches.

Mathias' third and final quartet was commissioned by the 1986 Harrogate International Festival and premiered there in August that year by the Medici Quartet. It has three movements: the first takes the form of a sonata, the second starts off as mysterious and lyrical and moves into a fiery climax, and the third uses exciting fugal passages and 'scherzando' sections, which make for a thrilling conclusion.

(For Baritone and String Quartet). By Ricky Ian Gordon. String quartet. For Baritone, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello. This edition: Study score. Premiere: Jesse Blumberg baritone, Miami String Quartet, Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival. Contemporary. Full score (study). Standard notation. Duration 1 hour. Published by Theodore Presser Company

(2nd Violin). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For Violin 2. Part(s); String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(String Bass). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For String Bass. Part(s); String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Conductor Score). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For Conductor Score. Score; String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 104 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Cello). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For Cello. Part(s); String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(1st Violin). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For Violin 1. Part(s); String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Viola). Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Orchestra. For Viola. Part(s); String Quartet. Alfred's Ovation String Quartet Series. Wedding. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing