String Quartet SKU: HL.14030979 Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030979
Score. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP30120.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030979).
Parts
available: KP00248 The
composer writes: The slow
choral-like music which
initiates Adieu was the
result of an image or
almost a dream that I
had. Without being able
to explain why, I
imagined a procession of
people, maybe medieval
munks, wearing large gray
mantles with
Ku-Klux-Klan-like white
cowls on their heads,
something like a funeral
procession. The title
Adieu is partly a comment
on this funeral
procession, but also used
because the piece is
split up by three
slow-ascending glissandi,
a kind of farewell
glissandi which removes
the intervening music.
The first absorbing
glissando is soft and
removes both the slow
funeral choral and the
agitating figures in the
first half of the piece.
The second glissando is
given only to the cello
and crawls out from the
elegiac melodies in the
middle part. The third
and final glissando is
intense and agitating,
and prepares the way for
the end of the piece.
This end primarily deals
with the relationship
fast - slow. This
relationship is turned
topsy turvy: the music
gets faster and faster
until it is so fast that
it suddenly becomes slow,
so slow in fact that it
is very quickly able to
become extremely fast
again.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14041525 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14041525
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America.
Contemporary Music. Set
of Parts. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01585A.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14041525).
ISBN
9788759871829. UPC:
196288071020.
9.5x14.25x0.167 inches.
Danish-English.
Pro
gramme Note During the
composition of my tenth
string quartet a
flower-name, host-tidlos,
came to my mind - and it
would not me leave again.
[hosttidlos is actually
autumn crocus in English,
but the composer prefers
harvest-timeless, to
maintain some of the
associations of the
Danish flower-name, red.]
The paradoxical union of
a seasonal time (harvest)
and no-time-at-all was a
good fit to the sections
of the work that I had
composed at that time,
and I decided to
tentatively stick to that
title for the
work-in-progress, and
now, having finished the
piece, I can say that is
is still a fitting title
- and it stands. Enough
about the title, I will
go on to describe
themusic, a somewhat more
precarious project. My
tenth string quartet is
probably the most basic
string quartet that I
have composed:
melodically - and in
sound - it employs the
naturally based overtones
and undertones (perceived
at major and minor,
respectively), and
rhythmically it is based
on growth, on the
principles of the Golden
Section, and the
structure itself
contrasts abundance and
exuberance with sections
of immobility and
contemplation. However,
Melos, melody, is
definitely the dominating
aspect of my STRING
QUARTET NO. 10: behind
even the most
rhythmically complex or
pure sonoric sections
lies a firm - if hidden -
basis of melodic or
polyphonic ideas. The
work was composed in
2004-2005 for the Kroger
Quartet.
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14001159 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14001159
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Studyscore. Composed
2005. 28 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30120B.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14001159).
ISBN
9788759805527. UPC:
888680792657.
8.25x11.75x0.106
inches.
Study score
to Bent Sorensen's Adieu
for String Quartet. The
slow choral-like music
which initiates Adieu was
the result of an image or
almost a dream that I
had. Without being able
to explain why, I
imagined a procession of
people, maybe medieval
monks, wearing large gray
mantles with
Ku-Klux-Klan-like white
cowls on their heads,
something like a funeral
procession. The title
Adieu is partly a comment
on this funeral
procession, but also used
because the piece is
split up by three
slow-ascending glissandi,
a kind of farewell
glissandi which removes
the intervening music.
The first absorbing
glissando is soft and
removes both the slow
funeral choral and the
agitating figures in the
first half of the piece.
The second glissando is
given only to the cello
and crawls out from the
elegiac melodies in the
middle part. The third
and final glissando is
intense and agitating,
and prepares the way for
the end of the piece.
This end primarily deals
with the relationship
fast - slow. This
relationship is turned
topsy turvy: the music
gets faster and faster
until it is so fast that
it suddenly becomes slow,
so slow in fact that it
is very quickly able to
become extremely fast
again. Bent Sorensen.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030965 Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Pa...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030965
Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Music Sales
#KP00509. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14030965).
ISBN
9788759861448.
English.
Version
for String Quartet. Score
available: KP00510 The
composer writes: 'In
February 1987 I saw in
the Tate Gallery in
London a painting by the
Victorian English painter
John William Waterhouse.
The painting kept
haunting my memory, and
as I at the same time
planned to write a piece
for solo viola, my ideas
for the music and the
memory of the painting
fused more and more. I
decided, then, to let my
piece borrow the title of
Waterhouse's paint-ing:
'The Lady of Shalott'.
The picture of a
mad-like, pale, and
perhaps singing woman
alone in a boat without
sculls, which calmly
slips out from the rush
growth of the river is an
illustration for the
ending of Alfred
Tennyson's poem by the
same title, which again
plaits into the old
English legends about
King Arthur. My piece
tries to meander - like
the river at Camelot -
among these sources. As
suggested above the piece
was originally written
for viola solo. The
version for string
quartet is from
1993.'.
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-677-1 Composed by Seppo Pohjola. Arranged by...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-677-1
Composed by Seppo
Pohjola. Arranged by A.
E. Westerlind. Classical.
Score and Parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-677-1.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-677-1).
According to
Jouni Kaipainen, the
fourth string quartet
(2006) is one of key
works of Seppo Pohjola
(b. 1965) and holds a
place as a landmark in
Finnish quartet
literature. Of the
composer's five string
quartets, it is the
longest and has the
widest thematic arcs of
his quartets. Seppo
Pohjola has gone through
a variety of styles in
his musical career. He
began as a strict
Modernist, progressed
towards Expressionism and
took on board Romantic
influences before ending
up in the early 2000s in
(a reformed brand of)
Modernism again. Osmo
Tapio Raihala describes
the end result thus: The
'new' Pohjola often
anchors his style in a
frenetic pulse through
which he builds musical
processes. Duration c. 33
minutes. Score (A4) and
parts (B4).
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.
Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
Tenor & String Quartet SKU: PE.EP72822 Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s...(+)
Tenor & String Quartet
SKU: PE.EP72822
Composed by Jonathan
Dove. Voice(s) & Various
Instruments. Edition
Peters. Living Composer.
Score and Part(s). 164
pages. Duration 00:30:00.
Edition Peters
#98-EP72822. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP72822).
ISBN
9790577011769. 232 x
303mm inches.
English.
I have
only visited Damascus
once, twenty years ago,
on the way to
Palmyra. I had a
purpose (I was writing
music for a play about
Palmyra’s Queen
Zenobia) but essentially
I was a tourist.
Like any visitor, I was
thrilled to step out of
the noisy modern city
into the magical ancient
world of the walled Old
City, its vibrant souk
leading to the
magnificent mosque, and a
labyrinth of winding,
narrow streets filled
with the smell of
unleavened
bread.
In Palmyra,
I was met with
extraordinary kindness
everywhere. On one
occasion, a little
Bedouin boy noticed that
I was risking sunstroke
wandering bare-headed
among the spectacular
ruins: he showed me how
to tie a turban, then
took me to have tea with
his family in their
tent.
Since then, I
have watched helplessly
as these places of wonder
have been devastated and
their inhabitants
scattered and
killed. When the
Sacconi Quartet suggested
that I might choose a
Syrian poet for our
collaboration, I welcomed
the idea.
I
searched for a long time
to find a contemporary
poet whose work might
gain from any music I
could imagine. I
felt it was important to
find first-hand accounts
of the Syrian experience
– but, of course, I
was always reading them
in translation. In
an anthology
called Syria
Speaks, I was
astonished to read
something that looked
like prose, but was full
of poetry. It was
Anne-Marie
McManus’s fine
translation of Ali
Safar’s A
Black Cloud in a Leaden
White Sky
– an
eloquent, thoughtful,
contained yet vivid
account of life in a
war-torn country, all the
more moving for its
restraint.
In
setting these words, I
have not attempted to
imitate Syrian
music. However,
there is what might be
called a linguistic
accommodation in my
choice of scale, or
mode. Several
movements are in a mode
that I first discovered
while writing a cantata
commemorating the First
World War: it has a
tuning that I associate
with war, its violence
and desolation.
This eight-note
mode is similar to scales
found in Syrian
music. I did not
choose it in the
abstract: it emerged from
the harmonies I was
exploring in the earlier
work, and emerged again
as I was looking for the
right musical colours to
set Ali Safar’s
words. In this
work, its Arabic aspect
is more prominent. -
Jonathan
Dove
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String quartet SKU: FG.042-08402-1 Composed by Paavo Heininen. Score. Pub...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.042-08402-1
Composed by Paavo
Heininen. Score.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.042-08402-1).
ISBN
979-0-042-08402-1.
This quartet forms part
of a major opus whose
different works make use
of the same tone row
matrix characterised by
the harmonic interval of
a third. Contrasting with
the aggressive, expansive
piano sonata which also
belongs to the opus, its
nostalgic tone is a mark
of respect for the
traditional ethos of
string music. Erkki
Salmenhaara compared the
work to a prism: As the
composer turns it, one
and the same shaft of
light gives birth over
and again to new patterns
and combinations of
colours.
String quartet SKU: FG.042-08403-8 Composed by Paavo Heininen. Parts. Pub...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.042-08403-8
Composed by Paavo
Heininen. Parts.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.042-08403-8).
ISBN
979-0-042-08403-8.
This quartet forms part
of a major opus whose
different works make use
of the same tone row
matrix characterised by
the harmonic interval of
a third. Contrasting with
the aggressive, expansive
piano sonata which also
belongs to the opus, its
nostalgic tone is a mark
of respect for the
traditional ethos of
string music. Erkki
Salmenhaara compared the
work to a prism: As the
composer turns it, one
and the same shaft of
light gives birth over
and again to new patterns
and combinations of
colours.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441626S Composed by Samuel Adler. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11441626S
Composed
by Samuel Adler.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed August 19 2013.
36 pages. Duration 15
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41626S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441626S).
UPC:
680160620067. 9 x 12
inches.
The String
Quartet No. 10 was
written in 2013 for the
50th anniversary of the
Bowdoin International
Summer Music Festival and
is dedicated to the
Cassatt Quartet who
premiered the work during
the 50th anniversary
celebration in July 2014.
 The work was written
with a generous grant
from the Fromm Music
Foundation.The 10th
String Quartet is in one
continuous movement but
divided into four
sections. Â The first
section is a slow
introduction which
presents the basic
harmonic material of the
entire work. Â This is
suddenly interrupted by a
very agitated movement
forming a great contrast
to the calm of the
beginning. Â This
rhythmic drive comes to a
stop and is relieved by
the third section which
is a variation of the
beginning, but is a bit
longer and more
developed. Â This is
followed by the final
section which again
captures the agitation of
the second section and
brings the work to a wild
and most aggressive
end.—Samuel
Adler.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030964 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales Am...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030964
Composed
by Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. 10 pages. Music
Sales #KP00510. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14030964).
ISBN
9788759861455.
English.
The
Composer writes: 'In
February 1987 I saw in
the Tate Gallery in
London a painting by the
Victorian English painter
John William Waterhouse.
The painting kept
haunting my memory, and
as I at the same time
planned to write a piece
for solo Viola, my ideas
for the music and the
memory of the painting
fused more and more. I
decided, then, to let my
piece borrow the title of
Waterhouse's painting:
The Lady Of Shalott. The
picture of a mad-like,
pale, and perhaps singing
woman alone in a boat
without sculls, which
calmly slips out from the
rush growth of the river
is an illustration for
the ending of Alfred
Tennyson's poem by the
same title, which again
plaits into the old
English legends about
King Arthur. My piece
tries to meander - like
the river at Camelot -
among these sources.' As
suggested above the piece
was originally written
for Viola solo. This
version for String
Quartet is from 1993.
A Bach Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
String quartet SKU: BO.B.3388 Composed by Jordi Cervello. Instrumental Se...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
BO.B.3388
Composed by
Jordi Cervello.
Instrumental Sets.
Duration 10:12. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3388).
English
comments: A Bach for
string quartet is another
evocation of the past, in
this case of J.S. Bach's
works for violin. Written
in 2004, it is a
recreation of two of the
most important movements
in the series of Sonatas
and Partitas: The Adagio
of the third Sonata and
the Prelude of the third
Partita (BWV 1005 and
1006, respectively).
Jordi Cervello was a
violinist and, as such,
it should come as no
surprise that he once
again makes use of
compositions written for
his instrument. The
Adagio, here in common
time (the original by
Bach is in three-four
time), keeps up the
constant rhythmic figure
of the dotted quaver and
semi-quaver throughout
the movement, with a
calmness that is shrouded
in mystery. The second
movement, Preludiando,
retains the same lively
spirit as the original,
but explores different
moods. Moments of calm,
vigour and even some
dramatic points give it a
new dimension thanks to
the fact that it is
written for a quartet and
to Cervello's original
treatment of harmony and
counterpoint.
Co
mentarios del
Espanol: A Bach para
cuarteto de cuerda es
otra evocacion del
pasado, en este caso de
la obra para violin de
J.S. Bach. Escrita el ano
2004, se trata de una
recreacion de dos de los
movimientos mas
importantes de la serie
de Sonatas y Partitas: El
Adagio de la tercera
Sonata y el Preludio de
la tercera Partita (BWV
1005 y 1006
respectivamente). Jordi
Cervello fue violinista
y, como tal, no debe
sorprender que una vez
mas se sirva de material
compositivo procedente de
su instrumento. El
Adagio, aqui en compas de
cuatro (el original de
Bach es de tres) conserva
en todo el movimiento la
constante figura ritmica
de corchea con puntillo y
semicorchea, dentro de un
clima sereno pero rodeado
de misterio. El segundo
movimiento, Preludiando,
conserva el mismo
espiritu vivo del
original, pero
recorriendo diferentes
estados de animo.
Momentos de calma, de
vigor e incluso
dramaticos dan nueva
dimension gracias a la
escritura cuartetistica y
al original tratamiento
armonico y
contrapuntistico de
Cervello. A Bach se
estreno en La Pedrera de
Barcelona dentro del
ciclo Celebracions de la
Fundacio Caixa de
Catalunya en el ano 2006
con el Quarteto
Prometeo.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14041524 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14041524
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America.
Contemporary Music.
Score. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01585.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14041524).
ISBN
9788759871812.
Danish-English.
Pro
gramme Note During the
composition of my tenth
string quartet a
flower-name, host-tidlos,
came to my mind - and it
would not me leave again.
[hosttidlos is actually
autumn crocus in English,
but the composer prefers
harvest-timeless, to
maintain some of the
associations of the
Danish flower-name, red.]
The paradoxical union of
a seasonal time (harvest)
and no-time-at-all was a
good fit to the sections
of the work that I had
composed at that time,
and I decided to
tentatively stick to that
title for the
work-in-progress, and
now, having finished the
piece, I can say that is
is still a fitting title
- and it stands. Enough
about the title, I will
go on to describe
themusic, a somewhat more
precarious project. My
tenth string quartet is
probably the most basic
string quartet that I
have composed:
melodically - and in
sound - it employs the
naturally based overtones
and undertones (perceived
at major and minor,
respectively), and
rhythmically it is based
on growth, on the
principles of the Golden
Section, and the
structure itself
contrasts abundance and
exuberance with sections
of immobility and
contemplation. However,
Melos, melody, is
definitely the dominating
aspect of my STRING
QUARTET NO. 10: behind
even the most
rhythmically complex or
pure sonoric sections
lies a firm - if hidden -
basis of melodic or
polyphonic ideas. The
work was composed in
2004-2005 for the Kroger
Quartet.
String Quartet SKU: SU.27120110 For String Quartet. Composed by Pe...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.27120110
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Peter Scott
Lewis. Score & Parts.
Subito Music Corporation
#27120110. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.27120110).
My second
string quartet: A hard
driving set of four
movements titled Prelude;
Into the Deep, and Up
Again; Dramatic Dancing;
and Toccata. String
Quartet Duration: 17'
Composed: 2004 Published
by: Lapis Island
Press.
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
String Quartet SKU: PR.16400222S Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (stu...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
PR.16400222S
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Full
score (study). With
Standard notation.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00222S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400222S).
UPC:
680160037841.
This
work follows my Quartet
No. 1 by five years. In
terms of style and
aesthetic aim, however,
it seems light years
away. Where the first
work, a 28-minute,
four-movement piece, took
aim at cosmic conflicts
and heroic resolutions,
the present work is
intended as a kind of
divertissment. Harbor
Music lasts a mere eleven
minutes, is cast in a
single movement with six
sections, and should
leave both performers and
listeners with a feeling
of good humor and
affection. The
title comes from my
experience as a guest in
the magnificent city of
Sydney, Australia. One of
its most attractive
features is its unique
system of ferry boats:
the city is laid out
around a large,
multi-channeled harbor,
with destinations more
easily approached by
water than by land.
Consequently, inhabitants
of Sydney get around on
small, people-friendly
boats that come and go
from the central docks at
Circular Quay. During a
week's visit in 1991, I
must have boarded these
boats at least a dozen
times, always bound for a
new location - the resort
town of Manley, or the
Zoo at Taronga Park, or
the shopping district at
Darling Harbour.
In casting about for a
form for my second string
quartet, a kind of loose
rondo came to mind. Each
new destination would be
approached from the same
starting-out point
(although there are
subtle variations in the
repeating theme; it's
always in a new key, and
the texture is never the
same). The result, I
hope, is a sense of
constant new information
presented with
introductory frames of a
more familiar nature.
The embarkation
theme, which begins the
piece, is a sort of
bi-tonal fanfare in which
the violins are in G
major and the viola and
cello are in B-flat
major. It is bold, eager,
and forward-looking. The
first voyage maintains
this bi-tonality,
beginning as a 9/8 due
for second violin and
viola in a kind of
rocking motion -much as a
boat produces when
reaching the deeper water
in the harbor. A sweet,
nostalgic theme emerges
over this rocking
accompaniment. This music
is developed somewhat,
then transforms quickly
into a much faster and
lighter episode, filled
with rising and falling
scales (again, in
differing keys). A
scherzando interlude in
short notes and changing
meters provides contrast,
and the episode ends with
a reprise of the scales.
The second
embarkation follows, this
time in A major/C major.
It leads quickly into a
very warm and slow theme,
in wide-leaping intervals
for the viola. This
section is interrupted
twice by solo cadenzas
for the cello, suggesting
distant boat-horns in
major thirds. The end of
the episode becomes a
transition, with
boat-horns leading into
the final appearance of
the embarkation music,
this time in trills and
tremolos instead of
sharply accented chords.
The nostalgic theme of
the first episode makes a
final appearance, serving
now as a coda. The
rocking motion continues,
in a lullaby fashion,
leaving us drowsy and
satisfied on our homeward
journey. Harbor
Music was written for the
Cavani Quartet, and is
dedicated to Richard J.
Bogomolny. Commissioned
by his employees at First
National Supermarkets as
a gift, it represents a
thank you from many of
the people (including
this composer) who have
benefitted from his
vision and generosity. An
ardent advocate of
chamber music (and a
cellist himself), Mr.
Bogomolny has for many
years been Chairman of
the Board of Chamber
Music America. -- Dan
Welcher.
Wash Rag for String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire LudwigMasters Publications
String Quartet - Grade 3 SKU: AP.36-52703617 Composed by Alan Shulman. Th...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 3
SKU:
AP.36-52703617
Composed by Alan Shulman.
This edition: Latham
Music. Quartet; Solo
Small Ensembles; String -
Quartet. LudwigMasters -
Latham Music. Book.
LudwigMasters
Publications
#36-52703617. Published
by LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-52703617).
UPC:
735816385521.
English.
This
humorous little vignette
for string quartet was
composed in 1979 and was
originally intended to be
published by Piedmont
Music, the ASCAP division
of EB Marks Classical.
For reasons unknown,
however, it remained in
manuscript form until
2021, when a copy of the
composer's autograph
parts was discovered in
the archives of a
completely different Alan
Shulman piece. This newly
engraved Latham Music
edition therefore
represents the first
publication of Shulman's
delightful work, as well
as the first full score.
As the title suggests,
this is a medium-slow
rag, or cakewalk in a
loose AABA form. The
bluesy and graceful main
melody is introduced by
the first violin in a
call and response
exchange with the rest of
the ensemble. The
restatement of the
primary theme is led by
the second violin, with
the entire ensemble
playing pizzicato, having
the effect of playful
mockery. In the B
section, the first violin
earnestly reasserts the
stately grace from the
opening however, the
cello is clearly becoming
restless and decides to
take over the lead just
before the final reprise.
The lighthearted ending
again has the first
violin doing its best to
bring the tune to a
refined conclusion, but
the rest of the group
still has mischief in
mind. After a couple
moments of seeming
confusion, the ensemble
regroups at last and
plays the final riff with
resolute emphasis. If
you're looking to add a
light moment to a recital
program, or looking for a
short, medium level
contest piece that
players and audiences
alike will enjoy, this
little miniature is an
ideal choice!
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