String Quartet SKU: HL.49047454 Score and Parts. Composed by Julia...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.49047454
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Julian Anderson.
String Ensemble. Chamber,
Classical. Softcover. 148
pages. Duration 1380
seconds. Schott Music
#ED13989. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047454).
UPC:
842819101086.
9.0x12.0x0.358
inches.
My 3rd
String Quartet is in six
contrasted movements.
Certain musical figures
recur across the work,
but there are few themes
as such. The main
emphasis is on contrast
of mood, texture,
harmony, pacing and
timing. Unlike many of my
works this quartet had no
extra-musical
inspiration, and in
principle should have no
subtitle. Certain
features already present
in my music became more
prominent in this new
work: modes (limited
collections of pitches)
have always helped me to
focus musical character,
but here a sense of key
note for each mode became
much more pronounced, as
did the difference
between modes for each
section of the work. A
sort of hybrid key-system
emerged (even with
equivalents of major and
minor) which is not
normal tonality, nor does
it aim to imitate it.
Unlike tonality this
key-system includes
noises, extended
performance techniques
and intervals outside
Western tuning as
available resources. What
I hope it does is to
focus the listening
experience onto different
musical areas, to
encourage a sense of both
modulation from one area
to another and to give
the music a sense of
goal. No conscious
knowledge of this is
needed when listening:
the music should
communicate directly on
its own. Here, then, is
this collection of six
musical colours, related
and unrelated, different
yet belonging together,
variable yet in a set
order. Hence the
subtitle, chosen both for
both its sound and its
sense: 'hana no hanataba'
meaning, in Japanese,
'bouquet of flowers'. A
brief description: 1)
Moderately fast. Short
droplets of sounds gather
increasing momentum. 2)
Very fast. Canons and
bells at different
speeds. 3) Very slow -
fast - very slow - very
fast - very slow. The
main slow movement and
its main scherzo. An
emphasis on non-tempered
tunings and on inhaling
and exhaling waves of
sound. The slow sections
feature florid melodic
writing. In the exuberant
scherzo competing duos
and trios create
imaginary folk music. 4)
Extremely fast/extremely
slow. Open strings and
harmonics fuse into a
single string instrument
- like a sort of large
resonating Medieval
tromba marina. 5) Very
fast. A variation on
movement 2). Variation,
Schoenberg told Cage, is
just a sort of repetition
'with some things changed
and others not.' 6) Slow
- Very Fast - Fast -
Slow. The opening calm
harmonies and florid
melodies evoke movement
3) in different music.
The fast part features
one overt theme: a
fanfare-like call to
attention which is
subject to extensive
development. There is
much use of non-Western
tuning. At its climax the
music freezes into a
frieze - a wall of sound
standing in front of the
audience with increasing
obstinacy and certainty
as the work grinds
towards its cadence.
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Bote and Bock
String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.48024228 Composed by Isang Yun. Bo...(+)
String Quartet (Score &
Parts)
SKU:
HL.48024228
Composed
by Isang Yun. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 110
pages. Bote & Bock
#M202534748. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48024228).
ISBN
9781540057310. UPC:
888680949266. 9x12
inches.
For Isang
Yun, String Quartet No. 3
from 1959 marked the
beginning of his European
creative phase and of his
official canon of works.
Now it is possible to
encounter Yun's early
works from his Korean
period in the form of his
String Quartet No. 1
(1955). Three important
10-minute movements
containing references not
only to Asia but also to
Ravel, Bartók and
Eastern European folk
musicand having an
idiosyncratic structure:
“Yun lines up forms
and figures, makes them
emerge from each other in
a contrasting manner and
assembles them into a
mosaic-like whole,
seeking for integration,
laying down his material
in layer upon layer and
ending the movements with
a rhythmic unison. []
Even then, he probably
regarded a work of art as
an energetic stream of
sounds and as a
reflection of a world
whose diverging parts
weave into a harmonic
whole.”
(Walter-Wolfgang
Sparrer).
Composed by Robert
Schumann. Arranged by
Eric Vireton. Classical,
Chamber Music. Score and
Set of Parts. FLEX
Editions #FX070843.
Published by FLEX
Editions (FL.FX070843).
This product
includes the score and
the parts (A4 sized).
American-Finn
ish composer Alex Freeman
(b.1972) has established
himself among the
foremost composers of
choral music in Finland.
A dedicated citizen of
his musical community, a
teacher, and a choral
singer himself, he
composes music that
reflects an appreciation
for a wide range of
aesthetics and a passion
for communicating with
listeners and performers.
In his choral works, in
particular, we find music
that aims to be sonorous,
melodic, and resonant,
but is always crafted to
carefully avoid the
cliches that can burden
conventional tonality.
His instrumental
works run the gamut: a
cantata with orchestra
based on poetry of
Whitman; a significant
body of solo piano works
that reveal deep roots in
everything from austere
absolute music to soaring
elegaic rhetoric (see
Albany Records, Inner
Voice); his chamber work
Blueshift (Navona
Records), which is a kind
of paean to Reich and
Adams in miniature;
open-ended modular works,
like various iterations
of his Slow All Clocks
for electronic media,
solo clarinet, and mixed
choirs of kanteles; and,
recently, some new
directions in microtonal
music.
Canon in D Major Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire FLEX Editions
Composed by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). Arranged by Eric Vireton. For string q...(+)
Composed by Johann
Pachelbel (1653-1706).
Arranged by Eric Vireton.
For string quartet.
Classical. Grade 4. Score
and Set of Parts. 14
pages (score); 11 pages
(parts). Duration 4
minutes, 5 seconds.
Published by FLEX
Editions
Set
(Score & Parts). 106
pages. Bote & Bock
#BB3474. Published by
Bote & Bock (BT.BB3474).
ISBN
9783793141716.
F
or Isang
Yun, String
Quartet No. 3 from 1959
marked the beginning of
his European creative
phase and of his official
canon of works. Now it is
possible to encounter
Yun's early works from
his Korean period inthe
form of his String
Quartet No. 1
(1955). Three important
10-minute movements
containing references not
only to Asia but also to
Ravel, Bartók and
Eastern European folk
music and having an
idiosyncraticstructure:
Yun lines up forms and
figures, makes them
emerge from each other in
a contrasting manner and
assembles them into a
mosaic-like whole,
seeking for integration,
laying down his material
in layer upon layer and
endingthemovements with a
rhythmic unison.
[…] Even then, he
probably regarded a work
of art as an energetic
stream of sounds and as a
reflection of a world
whose diverging parts
weave into a harmonic
whole.
(Walter-WolfgangSparrer)<
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Study Score. Composed by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). Sheet music. Schott....(+)
Study Score.
Composed by Paul
Hindemith (1895-1963).
Sheet music. Schott.
Study Score. Composed
1945. 3538. 36 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED3538. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49004161).
Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Trio. For violin, viola, cello. Wedding. ...(+)
Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. String Trio.
For violin, viola, cello.
Wedding. Set of parts.
Standard Notation. 48
(violin a), 48 (viola b),
48 (cello c) pages