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.
You Are My Sunshine Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
String Quartet - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1196191-070 Composed by J...(+)
String Quartet - early
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1196191-070
Composed by Jimmie Davis,
Charles Mitchell.
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2019. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1196191-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1196191-070).
ISBN 9789043157988.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
With its
simple, memorable melody
and folk-song style,
You Are My
Sunshine is
undoubtedly one of
America’s most
successful old-time music
love songs. Its success
in the 1940s massively
boosted the popularity of
the song’s singer
and guitarist, Jimmie
Davis and Charles
Mitchell, so much so that
it helped to springboard
Davis’ political
career, culminating in
his successful election
as Governor of Louisiana
in 1944. Dezaire’s
skilful arrangement
retains the
quintessential country
sound of the original
with this new string
quartet
orchestration.
You Are My Sunshine
is een liefdesliedje in
de Amerikaanse
old-time-muziektraditie
met een eenvoudige,
volksliedachtige en
bijzonder aanstekelijke
melodie. Zanger Jimmie
Davis en gitarist Charles
Mitchell werden er in de
jaren 1940 enorm populair
mee. Het succes gaf Davis
zelfs een beslissende
boost in zijn politieke
carrière, die hij
bekroonde met zijn
verkiezing tot gouverneur
van de Amerikaanse staat
Louisiana. Nico Dezaire
heeft met dit arrangement
de kenmerkende
countrysound van het
origineel op vakkundige
wijze bewerkt voor
strijkkwartet.
You Are My Sunshine
ist ein Lovesong in der
Tradition der
US-amerikanischen
Old-Time Music, dessen
einfache, volksliedartige
Melodie sich sofort
einprägt. Sänger
Jimmie Davis und
Gitarrist Charles
Mitchell erlangten mit
diesem Titel in den
1940er-Jahren eine enorme
Popularität. Bei Davis
beflügelte dieser
Erfolg sogar
maßgeblich seine
politische Karriere, die
er mit seiner Wahl zum
Gouverneur des
US-Bundesstaats Louisiana
krönen konnte. Nico
Dezaire setzt in seiner
Bearbeitung den typischen
Country-Sound des
Originals gekonnt auf
eine
Streichquartett-Besetzung
um.
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 (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.14022926 Composed by Carl August N...(+)
String Quartet (Score &
Parts)
SKU:
HL.14022926
Composed
by Carl August Nielsen.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Set. Composed
2002. 72 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH12574.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14022926).
ISBN
9788759852675.
8.25x11.75x0.285 inches.
English.
Carl
Nielsen (1865-1931) was a
Danish musician, often
seen as his country's
greatest composer, who
now occupies a
distinguished platform in
the national and cultural
heritage of his native
land. The Carl Nielsen
Edition is an independent
project which aims to
publish all of his
finished works, in the
version last approved by
the composer. The Quartet
for Strings in G minor
(Op. 13) is the earliest
of Nielsen's four
published quartets,
having been composed in
1887-1888, but it was not
published for over a
decade. It comprises four
movements: Allegro
Energico - Andante
Amoroso - Scherzo.
Allegro Molto - Finale.
Allegro (Inquieto) .
Parts. Composed by
Poul Ruders. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 34 pages.
Music Sales #KP00246.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14028046).
ISBN
9788759859377.
9.5x14.25x0.12 inches.
International (more than
one
language).
Score
available: KP00247 Ruders
writes: Quartet No. 3
Motet was written in
1979, commissioned by the
Lerchenborg music-week of
1979 during which it was
first performed by
Quatuor Bernede. This
short one-movement
quartet is a kind of
modernization of the 14th
century French motets, a
cadeau to this weird and
fantastic music whose
abstract and almost
deprecatory, introvert
expression appears
unaccountably modern and
incredibly ancient at the
same time. Motet is a
sober, cool treatise on
rhythm and statics,
depicted in a Gothic,
crypt-like atmosphere.
The almost completely
non-vibrato movement is
suggestive of boys'
choir, monks'
processions, and the
piercing sound of musical
glasses. An ancient world
is reborn and becomes the
world of today.