Distant Voices Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Schott
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.49047209 String...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49047209
String Quartet Score
and Parts. Composed
by Toshio Hosokawa.
String Ensemble.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. Duration 840
seconds. Schott Music
#SJ1214. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047209).
UPC:
196288159513.
In my
sixth work for a string
quartet, there is a very
simple melody concealed
in the background. That
melody (distant voices)
is played within an
extremely slow tempo, and
the notes which form the
melody gain different
textures by becoming
disassembled, and played
by different techniques.
In our daily lives, our
inner voices become
concealed by our daily
customs. The act of
composing, tome, is to
find out that concealed
distant voices, make
those voices spatialized
and construct them within
the musical time. This
work is dedicated to
Alois Lageder. Toshio
Hosokawa.
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Composed
by Peteris Vasks. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
Parts. Composed 2004. 56
pages. Duration 25'.
Schott Music #ED9809.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49033305).
ISBN
9790001137911. UPC:
884088408053.
9.0x12.0x0.202
inches.
String
Quartet No. 5 consists of
two contrasting
movements. The first
movement, being present,
immediately leads to an
atmosphere of high
emotional tension. The
prevailing atmospheric
elements of the music are
dramatic and passionate,
alternating with each
other like a
kaleidoscope. In contrast
to that, a second theme
is intoned three times -
an invitation, a memory
of the existence of
another world, a
light-house which
illuminates the twilight
in which we live so
often. But this
invitation remains
unheard. The first
movement concludes with
dissonances in the upper
register - a cry of utter
desperation.The second
movement, so distant ...
yet so near, is the calm,
unhurried vocal section
of the quartet. A
forgiving, loving look at
a world tortured by grief
and contradictions.
Gradually, the singing
becomes more personal,
more emotional and more
dramatic. The rhythmic
figure of a funeral march
in the recapitulation of
the second movement is a
gesture of loss.
Eventually, the quartet
loses itself in an
atmosphere of
light-filled grief.
Peteris Vask.
Strings.
Disney. Score & Parts.
Yamaha Music Media
#GTW259010. Published by
Yamaha Music Media
(YM.GTW259010).
ISBN
9784636259018.
5
Popular Disney pieces
arranged for String
Quartet. 5Shou Di Shi
Ni Re Men Ge Qu De Xian
Le Si Zhong Zou Bian Pei
Ban .
1.
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo; 2.
Winnie the Pooh; 3.
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah; 4.
Love Is a Song; 5. Dream
Is a Wish Your Heart
Makes 1. Mo Fa Zhi Ge
; 2. Xiao Xiong Wei Ni ;
3. Huan Le Zhi Ge ; 4. Ai
Shi Yi Shou Ge ; 5. Meng
Jiu Shi Ni Xin Zhong De
Yuan Wang.
Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Quartet. For 2 violins, viola, and cello....(+)
Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. String
Quartet. For 2 violins,
viola, and cello.
Swedish, Dance. Set of
parts. Standard Notation.
19 (violin 1), 19 (violin
2), 19 (viola), 17
(cello) pages
Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Quartet. For 2 violins, viola, and cello....(+)
Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. String
Quartet. For 2 violins,
viola, and cello.
Swedish, Dance. Score.
Standard Notation. 19
pages. Published by
Greenblatt & Seay
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.14041957 Parts. Composed by Sir Pet...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.14041957
Parts. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Music Sales America.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. Composed 2006.
Chester Music #CH68519.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14041957).
This work was
inspired by a keyboard
piece of the same name, A
Sad Paven for these
Distracted Tymes by
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656). Tomkins had
a long association with
Worcester Cathedral,
where he was organist -
appointed magister
choristarum in 1596 - and
lived within the
precincts until shortly
before his death. At the
same time, he was
organist of the Chapel
Royal. When the city of
Worcester surrendered to
Cromwell's parliamentary
forces in 1646, Tomkins
had to watch the hasty
dismantling of his
cathedral organ and the
abolition of all choral
services. These were the
'distracted tymes' of the
'sad paven' which he
wrote in enforced
retirement at Worcester.
Parts. Score also
available (14037561).
Accordion; String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.278633 For Accordion and Str...(+)
Accordion; String Quartet
(Score)
SKU:
HL.278633
For
Accordion and String
Quartet Score.
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 50 pages.
Duration 1080 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH33082. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.278633).
10.0x14.5
inches.
Dancers And
Disappearance for
Accordion and String
Quartet (2018).
Commissioned by and
dedicated to Andreas
Borregaard & The
Danish String Quartet.
Spiral bound score.
From THE LION KING. Composed by Elton John. Arranged by Nico Dezaire. De Haske...(+)
From THE LION KING.
Composed
by Elton John. Arranged
by
Nico Dezaire. De Haske
Pops
for String Quartet. Pop
and
Rock. Set (Score and
Parts).
Composed 2020. 6 pages.
De
Haske Publications #DHP
1206264-070. Published by
De
Haske Publications
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. S...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114405050
Composed
by John Downey. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 53
pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40505.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114405050).
UPC:
680160008377. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique efffect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water ,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorlines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluch
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against the
sheets of sound conjured
up by the two violins
playing a flood of
swirling figures, evokes
a kind of static motion
in spae. Here, the
virtually imperceptible
manner in which this
hushed whisper continues
incessantly, can suggest
the potential fluidity
with which movement may
inch forward... Later
into the fourth movement
, two fairly extended
solos by the second and
then the first violins,
lead to a kind of
spontaneous dialogue
among the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of 'psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440505S
Composed
by John Downey. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 53 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40505S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440505S).
UPC:
680160008391. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique effect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorelines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluck
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against sheets
of sound conjured up by
the two violins playing a
flood of swirling
figures, evokes a kind of
static motion in space.
Here , the virtually
imperceptible manner in
which this hushed whisper
continues incessantly,
can suggest the potential
fluidity with which
movement may inch
forward... Later into the
fourth movement, two
fairly extended solos by
the second and then the
first violins, lead to a
kind of spontaneous
dialogue amont the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
seem of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.