String Quartet - advanced

SKU: HL.49033197

Score and Parts. Composed by Paul Dessau. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score and Parts. Composed 1957. 28 pages. Duration 7'. Schott Music #ED9617. Published by Schott Music (HL.49033197).

ISBN 9790001134897. UPC: 884088075477. 8.25x11.75x0.071 inches.

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was still working on music begun in collaboration with the poet, while on the other hand Dessau was trying to work towards a socially oriented musical aesthetic, which led him to compose songs for political purposes. Even this Quartet movement does not owe its inspiration purely to an artistic vision. In spite of its technical demands, the piece is intended to be comprehensible and could even be played by an amateur ensemble in its cleverly reduced form. Only discovered after the composer's death, the Movement for String Quartet is published for the first time in this edition.

Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello - Grade 3.5

SKU: AP.36-52703177

Composed by Lynne Latham. Performance Music Ensemble. Latham Music. Score. Latham Music Enterprises #36-52703177. Published by Latham Music Enterprises (AP.36-52703177).

ISBN 9781621569367. English.

Some of the best loved operatic tunes are featured in this collection arranged by Lynne Latham. Ideal for the advanced quartet, players will find performances of these Opera Favorites fulfilling and enjoyable. Included: 1. O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), 2. The Flower Song from Lakme (Delibes), 3. Der Vogelfänger from The Magic Flute (Mozart), 4. Bei Männern from The Magic Flute (Mozart), 5. Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach), 6. Habanera from Carmen (Bizet), 7. The Toreador's Song from Carmen (Bizet), 8. Meditation from Thaïs (Massenet).

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String Quartet (String Quartet)

SKU: HL.14042753

Composed by Various. Music Sales America. TV-Film-Musical-Show. Softcover. Chester Music #CH61366. Published by Chester Music (HL.14042753).

ISBN 9780711965423. 9.25x12.0x0.323 inches.

A series of popular music for working string quartets. Light enjoyable repertoire pieces and entertaining encores. Each folio contains five pieces. Contents: 'Moon River', 'Schindler's List', 'Speak Softly Love', 'Theme FromE.T.', 'A Whole New World'.

Voice & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y296

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. For High Voice, String Quartet and Piano. Score (2 copies supplied) and parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y296. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y296).

ISBN 9790220223525.

Natu re and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440652S

For String Quartet. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Paul Salerni. Romantic. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2014. 12 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40652S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440652S).

UPC: 680160634002. 9 x 12 inches.

Salerni, whose recent works include two one-act operas (Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast and The Life and Love of Joe Coogan), turns to the piano works of Mendelssohn and fashions four beautiful string quartet arrangements. While Consolations is lush and languid, Hunting-Song and Unrest will require a tight rhythmic control. Includes Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3; Hunting-Song, Op. 19, No. 3; Venetian Boat-Song No. 1, Op. 19, No. 6; Unrest, Op. 30, No. 2.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.144406520

For String Quartet. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Paul Salerni. Romantic. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2014. 12+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40652. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144406520).

UPC: 680160633982. 9 x 12 inches.

Salerni, whose recent works include two one-act operas (Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast and The Life and Love of Joe Coogan), turns to the piano works of Mendelssohn and fashions four beautiful string quartet arrangements. While Consolations is lush and languid, Hunting-Song and Unrest will require a tight rhythmic control. Includes Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3; Hunting-Song, Op. 19, No. 3; Venetian Boat-Song No. 1, Op. 19, No. 6; Unrest, Op. 30, No. 2.

Accordian & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y279

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. Score and Parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y279. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y279).

ISBN 9790220223068.

Such is the character of the accordion that any work featuring its distinctive voice within an ensemble is likely to be a piece d'occasion. Written for the prizewinning young soloist Milos Milivojevic and performed with the Juritz String Quartet at the 2011 Machynlleth Festival in Wales, Rhian Samuel's Mist on the Hills is no exception. The composer has used the rare opportunity of writing for the instrument in combination with solo strings to exploit its illustrative powers and create a fourteen-minute score inspired by the changing weather over the hills around her Welsh home on the Dyfi Estuary.

In particular, its three movements are suggestive of the appearance of mist in the landscape, 'settling', 'lingering' and 'swirling'. In the first movement, which is a gentle prelude, brief accordion motifs break through the timbre of strings like glints of sunshine through mist. The second movement, more song-like, presents three verses of a lament; in the first half of each verse the accordion sings as if from afar, while in the second half (led by the viola) the music intensifies greatly. In the dance-like and virtuosic last movement a short, constantly changing refrain alternates with two types of material: 'swirling' music and lighter, more rhythmical ideas. Finally, scale passages invade the texture, ceasing only as the accordion ascends to the top of its range in the closing bars.