String Quartet SKU: HL.14035177 Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales Ame...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14035177
Composed
by Kevin Volans. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 32 pages.
Chester Music #CH61341.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14035177).
ISBN 9780711979406.
8.25x11.75x0.142
inches.
Irish
composer Kevin Volans'
work has gained
international acclaim
over the years. Drawing
on a combination of
European and African
compositional techniques,
his music displays a
unique charm. Volans'
distinctive sound is
heavily in demand, and
since the mid-1980s his
work has been performed
regularly at such venues
as the Pompidou Centre,
the Royal Albert Hall and
the Lincoln Center in New
York. This work for
string quartet was
commissioned by the
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Company, and was first
performed on the 16th
December 1990 at the
Almeida Theatre, London,
by the Smith Quartet.
Score. Parts available:
CH61342.
Irish composer Kevin Volans' work has gained international acclaim over the year...(+)
Irish composer Kevin
Volans' work has gained
international acclaim
over the years. Drawing
on a combination of
European and African
compositional techniques,
his music displays a
unique charm. Volans'
distinctive sound is
heavily in demand, and
since the mid-1980s his
work has been performed
regularly at such venues
as the Pompidou Centre,
the Royal Albert Hall and
the Lincoln Center in New
York. This work for
string quartet was
commissioned by the
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Company, and was first
performed on the 16th
December 1990 at the
Almeida Theatre, London,
by the Smith Quartet. Set
of parts. Score
available: CH61341
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440385S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440385S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40385S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440385S).
UPC:
680160029907.
A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell. Both
of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.
The piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption -
slow/fast/slow/fast -
with the first and third
sections alternating
declamatory and calmer
gestures, and the second
and fourth being, in
effect, almost variants
of each other. Quartet
No. 4 is approximately 20
minutes in duration and
each movement, as noted,
was written in memory of
dear friends who passed
away during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work was
completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New York.
--Sydney Hodkinson. A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell.Â
Both of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.The
piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption –
slow/fast/slow/fast
– with the first
and third sections
alternating declamatory
and calmer gestures, and
the second and fourth
being, in effect, almost
variants of each
other.Quartet No. 4 is
approximately 20 minutes
in duration and each
movement, as noted, was
written in memory of dear
friends who passed away
during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work
was completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New
York.—Sydney
Hodkinson.
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Wes...(+)
String Quartet No.4 was
composed by Hans
Abrahamsen in 2012.
Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
ArdittiQuartet. Programme
note: The basic idea for
my Fourth String Quartet
was very clear to me: It
should be quiet and soft
music or to put it in a
german term: hoch im
Himmel gesungen ... (High
singing in heaven). Each
of the four movements has
a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins -
like my work 'Schnee' -
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
movement and joy-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longer in
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
Dark, heavy and earthy is
the third movement and
its pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like babbling
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckiyly after
twenty years - it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage fur Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen
String Quartet SKU: HL.14021094 Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14021094
Composed
by John McCabe. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV120834.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14021094).
ISBN
9780853609216.
This
Quartet was commissioned
by the Delme String
Quartet, to whom it is
dedicated. First
performed by the Quartet,
London 1982. Duration 20
minutes. A Score is also
available for sale.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14021095 Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14021095
Composed
by John McCabe. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Music
Sales #NOV890194.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14021095).
ISBN
9780853609186.
This
Quartet was commissioned
by the Delme String
Quartet, to whom it is
dedicated. First
performed by the Quartet,
London 1982. Duration 20
minutes. Parts for this
work are also available
for sale.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441586S Based On Paintings From...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11441586S
Based
On Paintings From The
Book The Hours Of
Catherine Of Cleves (c.
1440). Composed by
Stacy Garrop. Premiered
by the Cecilia Quartet;
Norton Building Concert
Series, Norton Building,
Tinley Park, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed Summer 2011. 28
pages. Duration 19
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41586S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441586S).
UPC:
680160612987. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Nicholas
Yasillo's wife was much
taken with medieval-era
decorated volumes of
prayers and religious
scenes, known as the Book
of Hours. As such, he
commissioned Garrop for a
work in her honor. Garrop
appropriately uses her
String Quartet No. 4 to
describe not just five
scenes from The Hours by
Catherine of Cleves (c.
1400's), but a reading of
the book and personal
discovery of each
illustration
(Illuminations). The work
was written for the
Cecilia Quartet, who gave
the premiere in
September, 2011. For
advanced perfomers.
Duration: 19'.