8 Famous Opera Themes arranged for String Quartet. Composed by Various. Ar...(+)
8 Famous Opera Themes
arranged for String
Quartet.
Composed by Various.
Arranged by Barrie
Carson-
Turner. String.
Softcover.
Schott Music #ED13794.
Published by Schott Music
String quartet - medium SKU: JK.09039 Composed by Various. Arranged by Ch...(+)
String quartet - medium
SKU: JK.09039
Composed by Various.
Arranged by Charles
Cardin. Difficulty
Medium, Instrumental
Cello, Instrumental
Viola, Instrumental
Violin, Seasonal Music
Christmas, Christmas.
Christian, Inspirational.
Jackman Music Corporation
#09039. Published by
Jackman Music Corporation
(JK.09039).
Luke
2.
Christmas medley
of Away in a Manger and
Silent Night, arranged
for string quartet.
Instrumental parts for
violin I, violin II,
viola, cello--each
featured in a
solo. Composer:
various Arranger:
Charles Cardin
Lyricist: various
Difficulty:
medium Reference: Luke
2.
Beat It Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1175824-070 As performed by ...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1175824-070
As performed by
Michael Jackson.
Composed by Michael
Jackson. Arranged by
Anthony Gröger. De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Pop & Rock. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2020. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1175824-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1175824-070).
ISBN 9789043152884.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Beat It
is one of Michael
Jackson’s most
popular songs. Seen by
many as a rock song,
Beat It was ranked
by Rolling Stone
magazine as one of the
“100 Greatest
Guitar Songs of All
Timeâ€, due to the
notable inclusion of
guitarist Eddie van
Halen, and was also
awarded two Grammys for
Record of the Year and
Best Male Rock Vocal
Performance at the 1984
ceremony. Since its
release, the song has
been covered by various
artists such as Fall Out
Boy, Fergie and most
recently Anthony
Gröger, who has made
this energetic
arrangement for string
quartet.
Beat
It komt van Michael
Jacksons succesvolste
album Thriller.
Het nummer werd ook als
single uitgebracht.
Bovendien werd de hit
onderscheiden met twee
Grammy Awards en twee
American Music Awards.
Het voor Jackson toch wel
ongewoon rockachtige werk
is vaak gecoverd en
opnieuw uitgevoerd. Ook
Anthony Gröger waagde
zich eraan en schreef een
spetterende bewerking
voor
strijkkwartet.
Beat It, eine
Single-Auskopplung aus
Michael Jacksons
erfolgreichstem Album
Thriller, wurde
mit zwei Grammys und zwei
American Music Awards
ausgezeichnet. Der fu r
Jackson ungewöhnlich
rockige Titel wurde
seither mehrfach gecovert
und neu interpretiert wie
hier von Anthony
Gröger, der sich zu
einer fetzigen
Bearbeitung fu r
Streichquartett
inspirieren
ließ.
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Chamber Music String Quartet - Advanced SKU: PR.114414200 For String Q...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet - Advanced
SKU: PR.114414200
For String
Quartet. Composed by
James Matheson. Sws each.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed February 10
1998. 24+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 13 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41420. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414200).
ISBN
9781491111284. UPC:
680160594719. 9x12
inches.
Composed
for violinist Baird
Dodge, James Matheson's
SPIN is a three-movement
study in various meanings
of the word spin. I. Gyre
has the character of a
whimsically spinning
object in a sort of
arena. II. Web is
essentially a slow
movement. It explores a
nearly static, sinewy
texture comprised of
slowly undulating chords
in which snippets of
melody emerge from the
notes held while the
chords disappear. Similar
to the first movement,
III. Spiral explores a
kinetic notion of
spinning, this time in
the form of rapidly
rising scales. SPIN
was composed in early
1998. Each of the
work’s three
movements assumes the
task of exploring a
different meaning of the
title.The first movement,
Gyre (as in gyroscope),
has the character of a
whimsically spinning
object in a sort of arena
– spinning and
bouncing off the walls
(like a spinning penny,
which bounces off of an
object unpredictably and
with somewhat explosive
force). The primary
musical idea consists of
high harmonics in the
violins set against a
rocking pulse in the
lower strings. This basic
texture is explored in
various guises as the
movement progresses.Web
is essentially a slow
movement. It explores a
nearly static, sinewy
texture comprised of
slowly undulating chords.
Snippets of melody emerge
from the notes held while
the chords disappear. The
music intensifies,
leading to an expected
climax (or anti-climax)
of pizzicatos, before
returning to the opening
material and winding
gently to a close.Like
Gyre, the third movement,
Spiral, explores a
kinetic notion of
spinning, this time in
the form of rapidly
rising scales. The formal
idea of this movement,
however, has the
character of a spiral,
with its tendency toward
implosion.SPIN was
written for violinist
Baird Dodge.
String Quartet (rec,vl,vc,pno) SKU: BR.EB-6705 Pieces in Two to Four P...(+)
String Quartet
(rec,vl,vc,pno)
SKU:
BR.EB-6705
Pieces
in Two to Four Parts.
Composed by Fritz
Scharlach. Chamber music;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. Music
pedagogy. Full score. 56
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 6705.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-6705).
ISBN 9790004169063. 9
x 12 inches.
German.
Though a
piano can always be
included, it is not an
essential requirement for
the performance of these
settings: in some of the
carols, two violins or
two flutes are quite
sufficient, especially if
voices are used as well.
The following
combinations are
particularly suitable for
domestic music-making,
whether or not voices are
included as well:one
violin and piano,two
violins and piano,two or
three violins,violins and
recorders,two concert (C)
flutes (and an alto
flute) and - as the ideal
combination for
shepherds' songs -
flutes, violins, cello
and piano.Performing
groups and music schools
have the advantage of a
wider choice of forces
and the possibility of
varying the
instrumentation within
the individual carols and
verses. Thus large and
small combinations can
alternate, strings and
flutes can play in turn,
and finally the piano can
be used by itself or to
reinforce other
instrumental
combinations, in which
case the cello can be
added, too.The pieces are
graded in increasing
order of difficulty; the
first carols are chosen
so that they can be
mastered by violinists
after as little as 4 to 6
months of learning their
instrument. The choise
and sequence of the
carols in this book, and
also their keys, were
determined, amongst other
factors, by their
suitability for the start
of violin tuition, both
in first and in third
position, so that these
carols make an especially
good supplement of
Christmas music to the
violin method of Fritz
and Gottfried Scharlach
(with its principle of
starting with the third
position). The
progressively increasing
difficulty of the carols
has resulted, for
example, in the three
Advent carols (nos.
23-25) being placed later
in the collection.The
editor hopes that these
carols will be much
played and sung, and thus
help to fill the
Christmas season with joy
and splendour.Fritz
Scharlach, Salzburg,
December 1972
Our
beautiful Christmas
carols, old and new, are
presented here in
settings, ranging from
the easy to the more
difficult, for various
combinations of voices
and instruments that may
be available in domestic
music-making or for a
Christmas concert.
(23 Arrangements of Gems from the Baroque Period). By Various. Arranged by Joel ...(+)
(23 Arrangements of Gems
from the Baroque Period).
By Various. Arranged by
Joel Lish. String
quartet. For 2 Violins,
Viola and Cello.
Quartets. Baroque.
Advanced. Set of 4 parts.
Published by Middle
Fiddle Music
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-498-2 Composed by Kimmo Hakola. Parts. Fenni...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-498-2
Composed by Kimmo Hakola.
Parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-498-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-498-2).
ISBN
9790550114982.
Kimm
o Hakola's String Quartet
No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was
commissioned by the
Kimito Island Music
Finland and it's
dedicated to the Meta4
Quartet. In composer's
words, it is the
floundering, playful, if
necessary defiantly
dramatic, surprising,
capricious and
unrestrained tour de
force of a youthful
entity.Kimmo Hakola has
gone through a number of
styles and influences in
his career as a composer,
his idiom expanding at
times to embrace
Romanticism, Orientalism
and klezmer. He has
attained international
recognition with an
output that spans various
genres from intimate solo
works to full-length
operas such as La Fenice
(2011) commissioned by
the Savonlinna Opera
Festival. Many of his
works are expansive and
epic: his Piano Concerto
(1996), for instance,
clocks in at 55 minutes.
Hakola says that he sees
music as drama. His
dramas explore almost
Shakespearean extremes,
from moments of raging
'sound and fury' and
violent battles to quiet
moments of meditation and
heart-rending
monologues.
(Baroque, Classical &
Romantic Favorites,
Wedding Music). By
Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. String
quartet, mixed quartet.
For Flute/Oboe/Violin,
Viola, Cello, Bassoon.
Quartets. Baroque /
Classical.
Intermediate/Advanced.
Set of 4 parts. Published
by Last Resort Music
Publishing
(Baroque, Classical and Romantic Favorites, Wedding Music). By Various. Arranged...(+)
(Baroque, Classical and
Romantic Favorites,
Wedding Music). By
Various. Arranged by
Daniel Kelley. String
quartet, mixed quartet.
For Flute/Oboe/Violin,
Viola, Cello, Bassoon.
Quartets. Baroque /
Classical.
Intermediate/Advanced.
Set of 4 parts. Published
by Last Resort Music
Publishing