String quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49007611 Composed by Cornelius Uwe Gus...(+)
String quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49007611
Composed
by Cornelius Uwe Gustav
Jenner. Edited by Horst
Hermann Heussner. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. 148 pages. Schott
Music #ED 7896. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49007611).
ISBN
9790001081757.
Gust
av Jenner (1865-1920), a
student of Brahms', wrote
only three string
quartets. The Third
String Quartet in F major
was completed in 1911 and
premiered by the Rebner
Quartet. Common to all
Jenner's Quartets is his
way of infusing the
classical model with his
own musical language,
both on an intellectual
plane and from a
technical point of view.
True to the tradition of
the genre, the classical
form of the string
quartet is retained,
without however showing
itself to be a constraint
in the completion of the
cycle. What stands out is
the sophistication of
detail and the purity of
form achieved through
integration of the
elements of composition
and nuances of mood.
String quartet SKU: HH.HH389-FSP Composed by Litha Efthymiou. Two Violins...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH389-FSP
Composed
by Litha Efthymiou. Two
Violins, Viola,
Violoncello. Full score
and parts. Duration 10
minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH389-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH389-FSP).
ISBN
9790708146032.
The
inspiration for Tread
Softly came from two
contrasting sources: the
religious music of early
medieval Spain, and
Debbie Locke’s
work of art
‘Retracing Your
Steps - Bristol
I’. Although over
a thousand years apart,
these two sources share a
common feature - a
powerful sense of
movement enclosed within
a static form. In early
Spanish music this
manifests in the use of
extended melisma, and in
Locke’s work it is
depicted through the
seemingly moving,
web-like form of the
central image. Tread
Softly explores the idea
of movement within stasis
through the use of a main
melodic gesture that
transforms very slowly,
but constantly,
throughout.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Composed
by Ulvi Cemal Erkin. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. Composed
1935/1936. 80 pages.
Duration 14'. Schott
Music #ED21652. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49044199).
ISBN
9790001193740.
9.0x11.75x0.286
inches.
These two
chamber music works are
one of the main focuses
in the oeuvre of Ulvi
Cemal Erkin. Lively and
spirited, they combine
Western European
tradition with rhythmic
and melodic elements from
Turkish folk music. Both
are perfectly suitable
for music lessons and
concert recitals, adding
a new interesting colour
to the common chamber
music repertoire.Erkin
(1906-1972) is one of the
most important composers
of Turkey. He studied
piano and composition in
France and later returned
to his home country where
he became professor in
Ankara.
What Child Is This? Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Advance Music
SKU: AP.1-ADV6402 For String Quartet. Arranged by Dennis C. Anders...(+)
SKU: AP.1-ADV6402
For String
Quartet. Arranged by
Dennis C. Anderson.
Quartet; Solo Small
Ensembles; String
Quartet. Advance Music:
Holiday Celebration
Series. Christmas;
Sacred; Secular;
Traditional; Winter.
Score and Part(s).
Advance Music
#01-ADV6402. Published by
Advance Music
(AP.1-ADV6402).
UPC:
805095064025. English.
Traditional.
Deligh
tful setting is based
upon the traditional
Christmas song, What
Child Is This?. This
arrangement by Dennis C.
Anderson utilizes common
string quartet techniques
coupled with lush
harmonies and contrasting
styles.
String Quartet SKU: BT.EMBZ14219 Composed by Attila Bozay. EMB Contempora...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BT.EMBZ14219
Composed
by Attila Bozay. EMB
Contemporary Music. Book
Only. Composed 2000. 61
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14219.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14219).
Italian.
'Bozay'
s new quartet is an
imposingly splendid work.
Its slow second movement
reaches almost
Bartókian depths. The
final rondeau is of
elemental force. Each
movement is characterized
by lucid structure. The
aleatoric sections fit
perfectly the ones fixed
precisely by notation.
The tone is controlled
and lucid to an utmost
degree throughout. The
thematic materials are
characteristic, their
combination is logical,
but not commonplace it is
a work written with
amazing skill of the
craft.' (Porrectus,
Muzsika, March 1999). The
fourmovement work
composed in 1996-1997 was
first performed with
great success by the
String Quartet Somogyi at
the 1999 Mini-Festival in
Budapest.