String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Boosey and Hawkes
(Study Score). By Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Edited by Peter Bartok. For String Qu...(+)
(Study Score). By Bela
Bartok (1881-1945).
Edited by Peter Bartok.
For String Quartet (Study
Score). Boosey and Hawkes
Scores/Books. Softcover.
96 pages. Universal
Edition #UE34311.
Published by Universal
Edition
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.
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Carl Fischer
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE24 The Planet on the Table....(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE24
The Planet
on the Table.
Composed by Martin
Bresnick. Folio. Set of
Score and Parts.
48+20+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 32 minutes. Carl
Fischer Music #BE24.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.BE24).
ISBN
9781491156780. UPC:
680160915323. 9 x 12
inches. La.
Based
on Wallace Stevens' poem
The Planet on the Table
this string quartet's
world is made of the
music and sounds of
remembered times or of
something heard that the
composer, Martin
Bresnick, liked. The
quartet has five
movements, each headed by
a quotation from one of
Stevens' poems as a point
of departure or pathway
into those remembered
sounds and music. What
matters is that my music,
like his (Stevens')
poetry, should bear some
lineament or character,
some affluence, if only
half perceived in the
poverty of its sounds, of
the planet of which it
was part.. Wallace
Stevens' poem The Planet
on the Table begins -
Ariel was glad he had
written his poems, They
were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that
he liked. In this string
quartet, also entitled
The Planet on the Table,
my planet is made of the
music and sounds of a
remembered time or of
something heard that I
liked. The quartet has
five movements, each
headed by a quotation
from one of Stevens'
poems* as a point of
departure or pathway into
those remembered sounds
and music: I. Mrs.
Anderson's Swedish Baby
II. She Measured the Hour
III. Scene 10 Becomes 11
IV. Someone Has Walked
Across the Snow V. His
Self and the Sun Like
Stevens, my self and the
sun are one, and my
music, like his poetry,
although makings of my
self, is also makings of
the sun. Stevens wrote it
was not important that
his poetry survive, which
is also true of my work.
What matters is that my
music, like his poetry,
should bear some
lineament or character,
some affluence, if only
half perceived in the
poverty of its sounds, of
the planet of which it
was part. *Sources for
the titles: I. The
Pleasures of Merely
Circulating II. The Idea
of Order at Key West III.
Chaos in Motion and Not
in Motion IV. Vacancy in
the Park V. The Planet on
the Table. Wallace
Stevens' poem The Planet
on the Table begins
-Ariel was glad he had
written his poems,They
were of a remembered
timeOr of something seen
that he liked.In this
string quartet, also
entitled The Planet on
the Table, my planet is
made of the music and
sounds of a remembered
time or of something
heard that I liked.The
quartet has five
movements, each headed by
a quotation from one of
Stevens' poems* as a
point of departure or
pathway into those
remembered sounds and
music:I. Mrs. Anderson's
Swedish BabyII. She
Measured the HourIII.
Scene 10 Becomes 11IV.
Someone Has Walked Across
the SnowV. His Self and
the SunLike Stevens, my
self and the sun are one,
and my music, like his
poetry, although makings
of my self, is also
makings of the sun.
Stevens wrote it was not
important that his poetry
survive, which is also
true of my work.What
matters is that my music,
like his poetry, should
bear some lineament or
character, some
affluence, if only half
perceived in the poverty
of its sounds, of the
planet of which it was
part.*Sources for the
titles:I. The Pleasures
of Merely CirculatingII.
The Idea of Order at Key
WestIII. Chaos in Motion
and Not in MotionIV.
Vacancy in the ParkV. The
Planet on the Table.
Bagatelle Piano seul [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
For Piano. Composed by George Tsontakis. Contemporary. Performance score....(+)
For Piano.
Composed by George
Tsontakis. Contemporary.
Performance score. With
Standard notation. 12
pages. Duration 7
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #110-41802.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.110418020).
Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. For solo piano. Format: piano solo book. R...(+)
Composed by Peter Ilyich
Tchaikovsky. For solo
piano. Format: piano solo
book. Romantic period.
Series: The World's Great
Classical Music. 216
pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
By Michael Proksch. For Piano, 4-hands. This edition: Piano, 4-hands. Edition Br...(+)
By Michael Proksch. For
Piano, 4-hands. This
edition: Piano, 4-hands.
Edition Breitkopf.
Attached. 48 pages.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (German
import).
String Quartet SKU: HL.14028279 Composed by Cyril Scott. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14028279
Composed
by Cyril Scott. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Music Sales
#NOV262718. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14028279).
Scott's<
/em> String
Quartet No. 4
was completed in 1968,
just two years before the
composer's death. It is
noted for its austerity
and anguished
harmonies.
Cyri
l Scott (1879-1970)
was a British composer,
pianist and poet. His
most popular works, which
he is largely remembered
by today, were written in
the years preceding the
Second World War, however
he continued to compose
prolifically, in the face
of indifference from the
outside world, right up
until his death at the
age of 91. His music is
predominantly in the
Romantic style, and
serves as a tasteful
reminder of a bygone age.