Chamber Music String Quartet - Advanced SKU: PR.114414200 For String Q...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet - Advanced
SKU: PR.114414200
For String
Quartet. Composed by
James Matheson. Sws each.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed February 10
1998. 24+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 13 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41420. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414200).
ISBN
9781491111284. UPC:
680160594719. 9x12
inches.
Composed
for violinist Baird
Dodge, James Matheson's
SPIN is a three-movement
study in various meanings
of the word spin. I. Gyre
has the character of a
whimsically spinning
object in a sort of
arena. II. Web is
essentially a slow
movement. It explores a
nearly static, sinewy
texture comprised of
slowly undulating chords
in which snippets of
melody emerge from the
notes held while the
chords disappear. Similar
to the first movement,
III. Spiral explores a
kinetic notion of
spinning, this time in
the form of rapidly
rising scales. SPIN
was composed in early
1998. Each of the
work’s three
movements assumes the
task of exploring a
different meaning of the
title.The first movement,
Gyre (as in gyroscope),
has the character of a
whimsically spinning
object in a sort of arena
– spinning and
bouncing off the walls
(like a spinning penny,
which bounces off of an
object unpredictably and
with somewhat explosive
force). The primary
musical idea consists of
high harmonics in the
violins set against a
rocking pulse in the
lower strings. This basic
texture is explored in
various guises as the
movement progresses.Web
is essentially a slow
movement. It explores a
nearly static, sinewy
texture comprised of
slowly undulating chords.
Snippets of melody emerge
from the notes held while
the chords disappear. The
music intensifies,
leading to an expected
climax (or anti-climax)
of pizzicatos, before
returning to the opening
material and winding
gently to a close.Like
Gyre, the third movement,
Spiral, explores a
kinetic notion of
spinning, this time in
the form of rapidly
rising scales. The formal
idea of this movement,
however, has the
character of a spiral,
with its tendency toward
implosion.SPIN was
written for violinist
Baird Dodge.
String Quartet SKU: BT.ALHE32609 Composed by Henri Dutilleux. Classical. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BT.ALHE32609
Composed
by Henri Dutilleux.
Classical. Score Only.
Heugel & Cie #ALHE32609.
Published by Heugel & Cie
(BT.ALHE32609).
French.
Compo
sed between 1973 and
1976, Ainsi
La Nuit for
a String Quartet is one
of the most important
works of its genre,
byHenri
Dutilleux
(1916-2013), a French
composer.
This
scoreof Ains
i La
Nuit is the
conductor's score, with
the four instruments
altogether. The score for
each individual
instrument can be bought
separately.
Commissioned by the
KoussevitzkyFoundation
for the Juilliard
Quartet, Ain
si La
Nuit is
based on a series of
studies, lasts 18 minutes
and is divided into 7
sections:
1. Nocturne
2. Miroir d'espace
3.Litanies 4.
Litanies II 5.
Constellations 6.
Nocturne II 7.
Temps suspendu
Built on single
hexachords, it also use
the octatonic mode and
focus on harmonies,
contrasts and oppositions
ofregister.
String Quartet SKU: BT.ALHE33293 Composed by Henri Dutilleux. Classical. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BT.ALHE33293
Composed
by Henri Dutilleux.
Classical. Set of Parts.
50 pages. Heugel & Cie
#ALHE33293. Published by
Heugel & Cie
(BT.ALHE33293).
French.
Composed
between 1973 and 1976,
Ainsi la nuit for string
quartet is one of the
most important works of
its genre, by Henri
Dutilleux (1916-2013), a
French composer.
Commissioned by the
Koussevitzky Foundation
for the JuilliardQuartet,
Ainsi la nuit is based on
a series of studies,
lasts 18 minutes and is
divided into 7 sections:
1. Nocturne 2. Miroir
d'espace 3. Litanies 4.
Litanies II 5.
Constellations 6.
Nocturne II 7. Temps
suspendu Built on
singlehexachords, it also
uses the octatonic mode
and focuses on harmonies,
contrasts and oppositions
of register. This
publication includes the
four string parts. Study
score can be purchased
separately.
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-878-2 Composed by Kalevi Aho....(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-878-2
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Classical, contemporary,
folk. Score & parts.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-878-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-878-2).
Lasting 27
minutes, Kalevi
Aho’s String
quartet no. 4 (2021) is
in four movements. The
first, Nocturne, begins
with a hazily muted
melody dominated by the
interval of a minor third
on the second violin.
Though the first movement
begins in nocturnal mood,
there is also some more
forceful music around the
middle. The second
movement, Allegro
capriccioso, is quick
with quirky rhythms. At
times tempestuous, it
faces the players with
the biggest technical and
virtuoso challenges. The
following Largo is slow.
A couple of times in the
first half it is
dominated by soft,
mysterious harmonies. The
tempo marking of the
virtuosic closing
movement is Presto,
leggiore. The movement
begins with quick,
flickering,
will-o’-the-wisp-l
ike music. It later
builds up to an extremely
violent climax dominated
by tremolo figures on the
second violin and thick
chords on the other
instruments. The
flickering music of the
beginning returns at the
end, before dissolving
into silence.
This
product includes the full
score (A4) and the parts
(B4).
String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
2 vn, vla, vcl SKU: SU.29120070 For 2 vn, vla, vcl. Composed by To...(+)
2 vn, vla, vcl
SKU:
SU.29120070
For 2
vn, vla, vcl.
Composed by Todd Mason.
Chamber Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#29120070. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.29120070).
String Quartet
No. 3 is in one
continuous movement and
represents some harmonic
and structural
experimentation by the
composer. The work plays
out a bit like a tone
poem for string quartet.
Mason says This work
blends tonal, polytonal
and atonal material. My
goal was to create new
sounds but with a driving
suspense and energy from
the very first chords to
the very end to take the
listener on a kind of
cosmic tour to different
worlds of mystery,
longing, warmth, and even
triumph. This piece is
suggested for advanced
level players. YouTube
link with the Lyris
Quartet performing this
work:: 2 vn, vla, vcl
Duration: 14' Composed:
2021 Published by: Todd
Mason.
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.29120030 For String Quartet. Composed by To...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.29120030
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Todd Mason.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#29120030. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.29120030).
String Quartet
No. 2 is in three
movements. The 1st
movement engages from the
opening bar with fast
paced, off kilter 7/8
tutti rhythms and
sharp-edged harmonies.
This is a kind of musical
caffeine living between
tonal and polytonalism
with rich, sliding chords
and a haunting middle
section reminiscent of
Armenian folks tunes. The
2nd movement offers
emotional storytelling
with clear tonality but
with moments of more
complex stacked harmonies
and tension. The 3rd
movement is lively with
raw energy. Voices are
rapidly interchanged in a
dance of weaving motivic
development until the
satisfying rush of notes
to the end.String Quartet
Duration: 15' Composed:
2019 Published by: Todd
Mason String Quartet No.
2 (Youtube):.
Composed by Lara Poe.
Classical, contemporary.
Score & parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-853-9.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-853-9).
Lara Poe's (b.
1993) energetic
Divergence (2015-2016)
for string quartet was
conceived cyclically: the
four movements explore
drifting in and out of
focus between different
materials. A light ditty
of the second movement
diverges to the third
movement's overtone
derived
chords.
Duration:
c. 25'
This
product includes a set of
parts (violin I, violin
II, viola, violoncello)
and a score.
Lara
Poe is a Finnish-American
composer who is currently
based in London. Her
works have been performed
across a wide range of
venues throughout the US,
Europe, and Asia. Her
piece Kaamos, which she
wrote for the Lahti
Symphony Orchestra, was
recently nominated for a
Ivors Composer Award in
the Large Scale
Composition category.
Kaamos also was selected
by YLE Radio Finland to
represent Finland at the
International Rostrum of
Composers 2021 in
Belgrade, Serbia. Poe was
the 2019 Tanglewood Music
Patricia Plum Wilde
Fellow and represented
Finland at Ung Nordisk
Musik 2019 in Piteå.
She was also a 2018-2019
participant in the London
Symphony Orchestra's
Panufnik Scheme, where
she worked under the
guidance of Colin
Matthews and Christian
Mason.
Ainsi la nuit Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Heugel
String Quartet SKU: HL.48188740 For String Quartet Parts. Composed...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.48188740
For
String Quartet Parts.
Composed by Henri
Dutilleux. Leduc.
Classical. Set of Parts.
50 pages. Heugel & Cie
#HE33293. Published by
Heugel & Cie
(HL.48188740).
UPC:
888680879730. 10.5x14.25
inches.
Composed
between 1973 and 1976,
Ainsi la nuit for
string quartet is one of
the most important works
of its genre, by Henri
Dutilleux (1916-2013), a
French composer.
Commissioned by the
Koussevitzky Foundation
for the Juilliard
Quartet, Ainsi la
nuit is based on a
series of studies, lasts
18 minutes and is divided
into 7 sections: 1.
Nocturne 2. Miroir
d'espace 3. Litanies 4.
Litanies II 5.
Constellations 6.
Nocturne II 7. Temps
suspendu
Built on
single hexachords, it
also uses the octatonic
mode and focuses on
harmonies, contrasts and
oppositions of
register.
This
publication includes the
four string parts. Study
score can be purchased
separately.
Ainsi la nuit Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Heugel
Score String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.48188489 For String Quar...(+)
Score String Quartet
(String Quartet)
SKU:
HL.48188489
For
String Quartet Score.
Composed by Henri
Dutilleux. Heugel.
Classical. Softcover. 33
pages. Heugel & Cie
#HE32609. Published by
Heugel & Cie
(HL.48188489).
UPC:
888680870027.
9.0x12.0x0.135
inches.
Composed
between 1973 and 1976,
Ainsi la nuit for string
quartet is one of the
most important works of
its genre, by Henri
Dutilleux (1916-2013), a
French composer.
Commissioned by the
Koussevitzky Foundation
for the Juilliard
Quartet, Ainsi la nuit is
based on a series of
studies, lasts 18 minutes
and is divided into 7
sections: 1. Nocturne 2.
Miroir d'espace 3.
Litanies 4. Litanies II
5. Constellations 6.
Nocturne II 7. Temps
suspendu Built on single
hexachords, it also use
the octatonic mode and
focus on harmonies,
contrasts and oppositions
of register. This is the
study score of the piece.
Parts can be purchased
separately.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE9 Lamentations. Composed by...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE9
Lamentations.
Composed by Marvin Lamb.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
24+12+12+11+10 pages.
Duration 15 minutes, 40
seconds. Carl Fischer
Music #BE9. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.BE9).
ISBN
9780825895234. UPC:
798408095239. Key: C
major.
Lamb wrote
his String Quartet in
2007 for the Crouse
Quartet, an ensemble made
up of graduate students
at OU. Long, searing and
sustained chords build to
an exquisite agony of
strings. For advanced
performers. Duration:
15'40.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144404550 Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144404550
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2002.
53+20+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 22 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40455. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.144404550).
UPC:
680160030859.
After
finishing a serious
woodwind quintet in the
fall of 2001 [Tela
Lacerata], I found, in
the ensuing months, that
its cinders/ashes were
still impregnating my
eardrums. Therefore, when
I set out to write the
present string piece, I
realized that the musical
veins of the quartet,
like related cousins,
were sharing the same
blood as the earlier wind
composition. The
resultant Fifth Quartet
evolved into two large,
extended movements, each
one containing seven
parts that are played
without pause. As the
list of the various
sub-sections clearly
indicates, the formal
structure of the
movements appear to be
identical: each with
three main parts
enveloped by interludes,
plus an introduction and
coda. However, the
principal segments of the
first (slow) movement
gradually decrease in
length, while those of
the second (fast)
movement increase. In
addition, there is a
goodly amount of sonic
material stolen from the
first movement which
reappears -- stitched
together in a new guise
-- into the world of the
second. for example, the
bulk of Parts B and C of
Movement II are lifted
bodily, although
elaborately modified,
from their first
appearances in the
Introduction and Part A
of the fist movement.
This offers, I suppose at
least a hint of a
traditional
recapitulation. As was
true in the earlier
woodwind piece -- both
harmonically and
melodically -- the
embryonic growth of the
musical fabric (primarily
the tritone and perfect
fifth) is omnipresent,
almost obsessively,
throughout the course of
the whole work. These two
intervals, not unlike
plasticine, habitually
transform themselves into
the scales, chords, and
melodic lines that
pervade the texture of
the quartet. Owing to the
largely unrelieved
dramatic flow, the
shifting speed, and the
often fervent intensity,
the quartet places
considerable demands on
the dexterity,
virtuosity, and stamina
of the four performers.
String Quartet No. 5 is
approximately 22 minutes
in duration and
affectionately dedicated
to my violinist wife
Elizabeth, as a gift for
our 47 years together. It
was commissioned by the
Corigliano String
Quartet, New York, NY. --
Sydney Hodkinson.
String quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49044143 For string quartet. Co...(+)
String quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49044143
For
string quartet.
Composed by Detlev
Mueller-Siemens. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2011.
96 pages. Duration 12'.
Schott Music #ED21351.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49044143).
ISBN
9790001187237.
...c
alled dusk II for string
quartet draws its
inspiration from a line
in Samuel Beckett's short
story Lessness: 'Figment
dawn dispeller of
figments and the other
called dusk'.The work is
a kind of double
Chaconne, each part of
which contains 26 chords
based on specific
permutations of
fundamental notes and
their harmonics. Each of
the parts pass through
alternating, harmonically
contrasted planes,
becoming entwined in the
manner of a chimera
through their rhythmic
structure and dynamics.
This intermittently
produces a sort of 'inner
voice' which runs through
all four instruments. The
fundamental notes and
harmonics separate during
the progress of the
composition, becoming
independent and then
disintegrating. The
consonant harmony
resulting from the
amalgamation of the two
planes ultimately
collapses into a rigid
motor-like linearity.
Detlev
Muller-Siemens.