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.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14031816

Composed by Jean Joubert. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV12053901. Published by Music Sales (HL.14031816).

8.5x11.75x0.3 inches.

Though conceived as four separate movements, my second string quartet has a single motif which is common to them all. This is the three-note Muss es sein? from Beethoven's last quartet, Op. 135. But whereas Beethoven's theme is notated G E A flat, thus giving it an F minor connotation, I have sued an alternative spelling - G E G sharp - which suggests an ambiguous E minor-major. This ambiguity, in fact, becomes the tonal basis of the whole work, only to be resolved at the end of the final movement. Each movement begins with a variant of the basic motif on the cello. The first has the original form of the theme, while the second has a majorised version which is also expressed as a chord. The third movement, with its scherzoid middle section, reverts to the major-minor ambiguity of the first, and the finale begins with the majorised version as an ostinato accompaniment on pizzicato cello. The slow movement is sub-titled In memoriam DSCH and concludes with a quotation of Shostakovich's motto - D E flat C B - which is basically the same as Beethoven's with the addition of one note. This is not to imply that the work contains no other thematic material. One important theme, a rising fifth and a second, is also common to three of the movements, and is ultimately derived from my first quartet, Op. 1 of 27 years earlier, to which this second contribution to the form is in many ways like a sequel. Like the earlier work, too, this quartet is dedicated to my wife.

Parts. Composed by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Edited by Peter Jost. Henle Music Folios. Softcover. 80 pages. G. Henle #HN1399. Published by G. Henle

For 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello - with Comments in English. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by H. Walter. String Quartets. Pages: Vl I Part = VI and 53 * Vl II Part = 43 * Va Part = 37 * Vc Part = 39. Urtext edition (Paper-bound). Published by G. Henle.

For 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by H. Walter. STUDY EDITION. Pages: VIII and113. Urtext edition (Paper-bound). Published by G. Henle.

Early String Quartets. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Ed.: Gottfried Greiner, Ed.: Georg Feder. For String Quartet. Study Score, paperbound. Published by G. Henle.

Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Fabien Guilloux. This edition: Edition of selected works, Urtext edition. Cloth bund. Saint-Saens, Camille. OEuvres instrumentales completes III/1. Edition of Selected Works, Score, anthology. Opus 153, 112. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10315-01. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Musique de Chambre, Quatuor String Quartet: 2 Violins 1 Alto 1 Cello - Grade 3

SKU: FL.FX074125

Composed by Sarah Labrousse-Baert. Arrangement. Classical. Score and Set of Parts. FLEX Editions #FX074125. Published by FLEX Editions (FL.FX074125).

1 - Gavotte from Suite No. 3 in D Major - J. S. Bach ; 2 - Rinaldo - Aria, Lascia ch'io pianga - Alminera - G. F. Haendel ; 3 - Aria from Suite No. 3 in D Major - J. S. Bach ; 4 - Serenade D. 957 No. 4 - Leise flehen meine Lieder - F. Schubert ; 5 - Minuet No. 1 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven ; 6 - Minuet No. 2 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven ; 7 - Minuet No. 3 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven ; Instruments:String Quartet: 2 Violins 1 Alto 1 Cello; Difficuly Level: Grade 3.