Composed by Lei Liang. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Scor...(+)
Composed by Lei Liang.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Score and parts.
Composed 2014. 48 pages.
Duration 11'. Schott
Music #ED 30141.
Published by Schott Music
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 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.
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.29120020 For String Quartet. Composed by To...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.29120020
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Todd Mason.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#29120020. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.29120020).
String Quartet
No. 1 is a powerful
and harmonically dynamic
string quartet in four
movements. It mixes both
tonal and dissonant
musical landscapes in an
elegant way. The quartet
may also be experienced
as a kind of
coming-of-age story.
After the calm first
movement’s
confident simplicity of
youth, the second
movement reflects the
increasing complications
and conflicts of young
adulthood, with fraught
exploration, the
discovery of possible
romance, and new tensions
now replacing the
youthful calm. The third
movement reflects on
maturity and the
experiences of love and
loss, before the
finale—a set of
complex chromatic
fugues—evokes the
fight against fate and
time to achieve
one’s goals in
life. The
movement’s end
briefly recapitulates the
first movement,
suggesting that
ultimately life comes
full circle as we see the
totality of our
experience. As LA Opus
music critic, John
Stodder, said about this
work, The protagonist
discovers the presence of
life's purpose. String
Quartet Duration: 19'
Composed: 2019 Published
by: Todd Mason.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030950 Music Sales America. 20th Century. Editio...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030950
Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH49837.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030950).
The composer
writes: In Alman, which
consists of 3 movements,
it is the dynamic waves
that are making the form.
Constantly something is
created, sheltered by
these waves, things are
hidden or are having
their own expression. In
this light the first
movement can be seen as a
big curve, and the second
movement as a mosaic. In
the manic last movement,
the music is whipped
against climax. This
movement is supported by
a quotation of the young
Danish poet Michael
Strunge. The title of
Alman, is the name of a
dance (Fitzwilliam
Virginal Book), even
though this is hardly
heard in my quartet.
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14030988 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14030988
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Studyscore. Composed
2006. 44 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH29837B.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030988).
ISBN
9788759877319.
Alma
n - String Quartet was
composed by Bent Sorensen
in 1984. Parts available:
WH29837A Programme Note:
In Alman, which consists
of 3 movements, it is the
dynamic waves that are
making the form.
Constantly something is
created, sheltered by
these waves, things are
hidden or are having
their own expression. In
this light the first
movement can be seen as a
big curve, and the second
movement as a mosaic. In
the manic last movement,
the music is whipped
against climax. This
movement is supported by
a quotation of the young
Danish poet Michael
Strunge. The title of
Alman, is the name of a
dance (Fitzwilliam
Virginal Book), even
though this is hardly
heard in my quartet.
(BentSorensen).
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Faber Music Limited
SKU: AP.12-0571569625 Composed by Carl Vine. Masterworks; Quartet; Solo S...(+)
SKU:
AP.12-0571569625
Composed by Carl Vine.
Masterworks; Quartet;
Solo Small Ensembles;
String Quartet. Faber
Edition. 20th Century;
Masterwork. Score. Faber
Music #12-0571569625.
Published by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571569625).
ISBN 9780571569625.
English.
Premiered
by the Takács String
Quartet in 2004, Carl
Vine's String Quartet No.
4 is a dark and pensive
work. Split into two
equal parts, this acerbic
15-minute exploration of
conflict without
resolution---with angular
rhythmic gestures set
abruptly against a
brooding chorale---would
make an imposing addition
to any quartet's
repertoire.
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.
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.
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Faber Music Limited
SKU: AP.12-0571569633 Composed by Carl Vine. Masterworks; Quartet; Solo S...(+)
SKU:
AP.12-0571569633
Composed by Carl Vine.
Masterworks; Quartet;
Solo Small Ensembles;
String Quartet. Faber
Edition. 20th Century;
Masterwork. Part(s).
Faber Music
#12-0571569633. Published
by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571569633).
ISBN 9780571569632.
English.
Premiered
by the Takács String
Quartet in 2004, Carl
Vine's String Quartet No.
4 is a dark and pensive
work. Split into two
equal parts, this acerbic
15-minute exploration of
conflict without
resolution---with angular
rhythmic gestures set
abruptly against a
brooding chorale---would
make an imposing addition
to any quartet's
repertoire.