Instrument : violinType : performance bookNombre de Pages : 24Part 2 of Sheila Nelson's Tetratunes Series.Stringsongs develops reading skills begun in Tetratunes, by the use of singing and part-playing. The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 2).Content : Anon: Sound for us - Traditional: London's burning - Sheila M. Nelson: Drummer's march - Traditional: Fiddle and flute - Anon: Favourite round - T.H. Bayley: Long, long ago - Traditional: My dame hath a lame, tame crane - Thomas Tallis: Tallis' canon - Sheila M. Nelson: Summer song - Anon: Summer is a-coming in - Sheila M. Nelson: Echo dance - Anon: Ave Maria - Sheila M. Nelson: Idle cowboy - Traditional: Three blind mice - G.F. Handel: Gavotte - Sheila M. Nelson: I sing when I'm happy - Philip Hayes: The rose - Anon: Oh, how lovely is the evening - Sheila M. Nelson: Rumba time - John Jenkins: A boat, a boat - John Arnold: Haste thee, nymph - L. van Beethoven: The flower wondrous-fair - John Hilton: Come, follow - Anon: O my love - Country dance: The four posted bed - Johann Strauss: Emperor waltz - R.A. Eastburn: Little brown jug

Klezmer Miniatures has been compiled for young musicians who, by playing an instrument, would like to become acquainted with the musically varied world of Klezmer. The series comprises two duos, four trios and two quartets, which can be performed with different combinations of instruments - violin, clarinet, flute, cello, double bass, bass guitar and trumpet. The composer, Ferenc Jávori, is a major figure of world music in Europe and is a prolific composer, orchestrator and performer. He is the founder and leader of the Budapest Klezmer Band. Jávori was born into a Hungarian-Jewish community in Munkács (Mukacheve, Ukraine), where the years before the Second World War witnessed a golden age of Klezmer, the traditional, instrumental folk music of Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities. He has collected and compiled numerous melodies and songs from the last representatives of this formerly vibrant musical culture. Each of the Klezmer Miniatures reflects a different traditional genre of Klezmer. In these pieces Jávori has used certain motifs from Moisei Beregosky's folk music collection. / 2 Violons

Par DESSAU PAUL. Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a series of notes grounded in tonality. A contrapuntally separated little semiquaver figure acquires increasing importance and points the way ahead to the greater rhythmical turbulence of the middle section. Syncopated imitative devices add intensity to the music until all this activity is calmed down again in the extended Coda. By working names into his music as quotations Dessau pays musical homage to two of his aesthetic forefathers - Bach and Schoenberg - during a creative period spent in exile./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was still working on music begun in collaboration with the poet, while on the other hand Dessau was trying to work towards a socially oriented musical aesthetic, which led him to compose songs for political purposes. Even this Quartet movement does not owe its inspiration purely to an artistic vision. In spite of its technical demands, the piece is intended to be comprehensible and could even be played by an amateur ensemble in its cleverly reduced form. Only discovered after the composer's death, the Movement for String Quartet is published for the first time in this edition. / Quatuor A Cordes

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictly motivic way was to be Reger's last opus. Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher, he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song, first performed at a memorial for the composer on 6 November 1916. Almost one hundred years later, we are now publishing it for the first time in an Urtext edition, edited by the Reger scholar Michael Kube. / Quintette De Clarinettes

Cette collection originale d'études irlandaises donne la possibilité de se familiariser avec ce style de jeu. Les pièces varient du simple, gabarit optimiste pour les ballades plus calme et lyrique. Touche de musique irlandaise le coeur de nous tous! / Violon / 28 pages / niveau : Elémentaire - Moyen / Partition Cd