Composed
by Chatori Shimizu.
Ensembles - Chamber
Music. Periferia
Publishing #CM3207PM.
Published by Periferia
Publishing (AY.CM3207PM).
ISBN
9790803752763.
Jean
Ignace Isidore Gerard, a
19th Century French
caricaturist, is not
well-known in Japan. The
composer was inspired to
compose Fiddle after
seeing Grandville's work,
Apocalypse du ballet,
which expresses
continuous patterns of
transformative objects in
a sense of disorienting
beauty. Although all four
instruments are
responsible for four
individual melodies, they
are not subjected to
fixed pitches and
textures (extended
techniques such as sul
ponticello and sul tasto
are used), and are
intended to create a
merged acoustic fabric
that is in constant
transformation.
Harp, Flute, Clarinet, String Quartet SKU: HL.14023298 Composed by Per No...(+)
Harp, Flute, Clarinet,
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14023298
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Score.
Music Sales #KP01431.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14023298).
ISBN
9788759871591.
English.
Per
Norgard 's Gennem Torne /
Through Thorns (2003)
Harp Concerto No. 2 -
Passage for Harp Solo
with Flute, Clarinet and
String Quartet. Premiered
by Tine Rehling (Harp)
and the Esbjerg Ensemble,
conducted by Kaisa Roose
at the Concert Hall of
the Western Jutland
Academy of Music,
Esbjerg, 28th January
2004. Programme Note
THROUGH THORNS has a
duration of about 20
minutes, in one
continuous movement, thus
the subtitle passage. The
work is scored for harp
solo, flute, clarinet and
string quartet. The title
is borrowed from the
lines from an old Virgin
Mary Hymn: Mary wanders
through thorns, a hymn
which ends with the
following line: then
roses grew forth amongst
thethorns. I only came
across the poem after
finishing the
composition, the passage
of which is a journey of
sometimes dramatic
events, concluding with a
rose-blooming, as does
the hymn. For
THROUGH THORNS to borrow
its title from a Virgin
Mary Hymn has to do with
the musical material and
current of the piece,
which brings motives from
an earlier choral piece
of mine, FLOS UT ROSA
(Latin for a flower like
a rose), and the rose in
question is of course the
one which grew forth when
the Virgin Mary gave
birth to the Infant Jesus
in a hitherto unheard-of
fashion, a NOVA GENITURA
(new birth), which is the
title of another work of
mine that also derives
its material from my
original rose-melody from
1975. THROUGH
THORNS is dedicated to
Tine Rehling, and
together with her I have
tried to expand the
sonorities of the harp,
by exploring existing
techniques and their more
remote regions, in order
to gain access to new
territory and new
soundscaoes, as realised
by the constantly
experimentally-minded and
virtuoso player.
Per Norgard, 2004.
 .
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144402180 After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144402180
After
Zurbarán. Composed
by James Primosch. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
20+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 18 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40218.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.144402180).
UPC:
680160027156. 9.5 x 13
inches.
The
concerts and exhibits of
the Cleveland Museum of
Art were an important
formative influence for
me during my student
days. So when the
invitation came to create
a new work celebrating
this institution on its
seventy-fifth
anniversary, I was not
only happy to accept, but
knew immediately that I
wanted to write a piece
that would somehow relate
specifically to the
museum. I decided to make
the work a reflection on
a painting in the
museum's collection:
Zurbaran's The Holy House
of Nazareth. My quartet
is not program music in a
narrative sense, but
rather a kind of
meditation that takes its
tone from this painting's
remarkable integration of
intense affect,
mysterious repose and
secret geometry. Besides
Zurbaran's painting, the
piece is occupied with a
purely musical object of
contemplation: the hymn
tune Picardy, best known
with the text Let All
Mortal Flesh Keep
Silence. This tune
permeates the harmonic
and melodic life of the
quartet, sometimes
appearing in a very
simple, straightforward
fashion, but often hidden
amidst more complex
structures. I was
attracted to the melody
for its musical
qualities, but later
realized that the hymn's
text also resonates with
the mood of the painting;
the words speak of a
reverent awe, of cherubim
with sleepless eye, and
of the mystery of the
Incarnate Word who must
suffer: King of kings,
yet born of Mary...
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440218S After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440218S
After
Zurbarán. Composed
by James Primosch. Full
score. With Standard
notation. Duration 18
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40218S. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.14440218S).
UPC:
680160027170. 9.5 x 13
inches.
The
concerts and exhibits of
the Cleveland Museum of
Art were an important
formative influence for
me during my student
days. So when the
invitation came to create
a new work celebrating
this institution on its
seventy-fifth
anniversary, I was not
only happy to accept, but
knew immediately that I
wanted to write a piece
that would somehow relate
specifically to the
museum. I decided to make
the work a reflection on
a painting in the
museum's collection:
Zurbaran's The Holy House
of Nazareth. My quartet
is not program music in a
narrative sense, but
rather a kind of
meditation that takes its
tone from this painting's
remarkable integration of
intense affect,
mysterious repose and
secret geometry. Besides
Zurbaran's painting, the
piece is occupied with a
purely musical object of
contemplation: the hymn
tune Picardy, best known
with the text Let All
Mortal Flesh Keep
Silence. This tune
permeates the harmonic
and melodic life of the
quartet, sometimes
appearing in a very
simple, straightforward
fashion, but often hidden
amidst more complex
structures. I was
attracted to the melody
for its musical
qualities, but later
realized that the hymn's
text also resonates with
the mood of the painting;
the words speak of a
reverent awe, of cherubim
with sleepless eye, and
of the mystery of the
Incarnate Word who must
suffer: King of kings,
yet born of Mary...
String Quartet No. 8 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144407270 Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144407270
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Sws. Set of Score and
Parts. 44+16+16+16+16
pages. Duration 22
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40727. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.144407270).
UPC:
680160681891. 9 x 12
inches.
My Eighth
and Ninth String
Quartets, begun in late
2017, are sonic cousins.
Akin to real cousins,
each piece exhibits
differing natures. They
were requested by two
ensembles that have
become asecond familiesa
to me: The Jupiter
Quartet of Urbana,
Illinois and the Amernet
Quartet based in Miami,
Florida. Their collective
dedication to, and care
for, our art remains a
personal and constant
are-fuelinga for me. The
quartets were
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, Margaret
and Philip Verleger of
Denver, Colorado.
Additional financial
support was provided by
the School of Music at
Stetson University,
Timothy Peter, Dean.
Quartet No.8 is laid out
in a classical
four-movement design. The
work does break somewhat
from conventional
tradition by often
placing quartet members
into soloistic roles as
the movement titles note.
individual The opening
piece presents at the
outset a three-note motto
which is turned over,
tumbled, and
energetically discussed,
primarily by a violin
duet. It is a duel. The
two players part company
only infrequently during
the movement's progress,
pausing briefly for other
commentary by their
alower cohortsa, the
Viola and Cello do not
argue, but abet their
friends' aeffortsa. The
piece's overall character
is fairly bright and
dancelike, closing in an
unresolvedastandoffa. not
Two principal
asound-objectsa stitch
the second movement
scherzo together: sliding
hands (glissandos) and a
plucked ashufflea
(pizzicato) - both
instigated by the (solo)
cellist. The others are
influenced - or are not -
by their aleadera, and
follow - or interrupt -
the cello throughout
their four-voiced
conversation. The third
movement (longest of the
set) is an elegy
dedicated to the memory
of a close personal
friend, the American
composer David Maslanka
(1943 - 2017). Its'
genesis is a simple
5-note melody derived
from my own name
(SaC/DaC/EaC/H). This
line commences in the
(solo) viola and is
obsessively uttered
without relief during the
movement's lamentations.
The closing movement
revisits much of that
opening three-note
material, but now dressed
up for the full quartet
to view. It is a slowly
accelerating romp which -
twice - cannot avoid a
nod to the Amernet and
Jupiter performers by
offering a humble bow to
the 4th movement of
Gustav Holst's PLANETS -
Jupiter: The Bringer of
Jollity. My quartet
serves as an honouring
salute of thanks for the
talent, respect, and
friendship of these two
young quartets. STRING
QUARTET No. 8 is roughly
22 minutes in duration.
It was written as an
homage to Franz Joseph
Haydn, my
adesert-island-composera,
and completed in Holly
Hill, Florida in early
April of 2019. S.H.
String Quartet No. 8 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440727S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440727S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Sws. Full score. 44
pages. Duration 22
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40727S. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.14440727S).
UPC:
680160681907. 9 x 12
inches.
My Eighth
and Ninth String
Quartets, begun in late
2017, are sonic cousins.
Akin to real cousins,
each piece exhibits
differing natures. They
were requested by two
ensembles that have
become asecond familiesa
to me: The Jupiter
Quartet of Urbana,
Illinois and the Amernet
Quartet based in Miami,
Florida. Their collective
dedication to, and care
for, our art remains a
personal and constant
are-fuelinga for me. The
quartets were
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, Margaret
and Philip Verleger of
Denver, Colorado.
Additional financial
support was provided by
the School of Music at
Stetson University,
Timothy Peter, Dean.
Quartet No.8 is laid out
in a classical
four-movement design. The
work does break somewhat
from conventional
tradition by often
placing quartet members
into soloistic roles as
the movement titles note.
individual The opening
piece presents at the
outset a three-note motto
which is turned over,
tumbled, and
energetically discussed,
primarily by a violin
duet. It is a duel. The
two players part company
only infrequently during
the movement's progress,
pausing briefly for other
commentary by their
alower cohortsa, the
Viola and Cello do not
argue, but abet their
friends' aeffortsa. The
piece's overall character
is fairly bright and
dancelike, closing in an
unresolvedastandoffa. not
Two principal
asound-objectsa stitch
the second movement
scherzo together: sliding
hands (glissandos) and a
plucked ashufflea
(pizzicato) - both
instigated by the (solo)
cellist. The others are
influenced - or are not -
by their aleadera, and
follow - or interrupt -
the cello throughout
their four-voiced
conversation. The third
movement (longest of the
set) is an elegy
dedicated to the memory
of a close personal
friend, the American
composer David Maslanka
(1943 - 2017). Its'
genesis is a simple
5-note melody derived
from my own name
(SaC/DaC/EaC/H). This
line commences in the
(solo) viola and is
obsessively uttered
without relief during the
movement's lamentations.
The closing movement
revisits much of that
opening three-note
material, but now dressed
up for the full quartet
to view. It is a slowly
accelerating romp which -
twice - cannot avoid a
nod to the Amernet and
Jupiter performers by
offering a humble bow to
the 4th movement of
Gustav Holst's PLANETS -
Jupiter: The Bringer of
Jollity. My quartet
serves as an honouring
salute of thanks for the
talent, respect, and
friendship of these two
young quartets. STRING
QUARTET No. 8 is roughly
22 minutes in duration.
It was written as an
homage to Franz Joseph
Haydn, my
adesert-island-composera,
and completed in Holly
Hill, Florida in early
April of 2019. S.H.
Subject Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Carl Fischer
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE11F Composed by Jason Eckardt. Ful...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE11F
Composed by
Jason Eckardt. Full
score. 78 pages. Duration
16 minutes. Carl Fischer
Music #BE11F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.BE11F).
ISBN
9780825888595. UPC:
798408088590. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Beginning
in the 1950s, the CIA
became very interested in
psychological research
beingconducted on the
effects of sensory
deprivation on humans.
The research, that
suggestedrapid regression
in those tested, provided
a framework for sections
of what would later
beknown as the KUBARK
manual, the first a
series of US-government
documents thatprovided
techniques for
interrogating detainees.
These methods involved
radicallyaltering a
detainee’s sense
of time and
environment.Among these
techniques, some
developed independently
of the manuals by
interrogators,were the
manipulation of light and
sound. In order to weaken
the resolve of a
detaineeand prolong
“capture
shock,†complete
sensory deprivation
followed by blasts of
light ornoise, or very
loud music, proved
effective. So much so
that variations and
combinationsof these
techniques were widely
used by the United States
as well as both its
allies andenemies in
Vietnam, Latin America,
Northern Ireland, and the
Middle East.Though the
idea of sound as a weapon
is at least as old as the
account of
Joshua’s siegeof
Jericho, it was only
recently deemed
“inhuman and
degrading†for the
purposes ofinterrogation
by the European Court of
Human Rights in the 1978
case “Ireland v.
theUnited
Kingdom.â€. Accid
entals apply only to the
notes they precede with
the exception of tied or
consecutively repeated
notes.Tempi are
consistent throughout the
meter changes (Le.,
~'=),)=)l, etc.).Grace
notes are always to be
played as fast as
possible. Each grace note
in a group should be of
the same duration.
Gracenotes curtail the
previous measured note's
duration with the
exception noted
below.Approximate
duration: 16 minutes.
Critical Edition
Hardcover. Composed
by Karol Szymanowski.
PWM. Classical.
Hardcover. 60 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #9267030.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.370494).
ISBN
9781705147009. UPC:
840126994025.
The
First String Quartet in C
major, Op. 37, was
written in the autumn of
1917 and earned
Szymanowski the first
prize in a competition
organized by the Ministry
of Religious and in a
competition organized by
the Ministry of Religious
and Educational Affairs
in January 1922. The
First String Quartet is
notable for its clar and
simple construction. The
first movement is in the
formof a sonata allegro;
the Andantino semplice
(in modo iuna canzone) in
the middle is a cross
between ternary and
variation form. The final
Scherzando alla burlesca
also keeps to the form of
a sonata allegro. The
combinations and
proportions of formal
factors and the treatment
of thematic material
betray a fairly
conventional adoption of
classical models.
Similarly, the expressive
and structural use of
melodic material shows a
respect for traditional
norms. Szymanowski
created, in other works
from the same period, his
own individual type of
melodic line, which was
strongly expressive and
achieved its effect
chiefly by its tonal
qualieties; nevertheless
in this Quartet he
returns to a fluid,
cantilena-like,
symmetrically shaped
melodic line, which runs
along in broad phrases of
a concentrated,
reflective character.
Melody becomes the chief
factor in the development
of the form, both in
thematic usage and in the
application of a more
polyphonic texture.
Harmonic and tonal means
are considerably
simplified in the Quartet
[]. Most of the writing
is linear, or horizontal,
with individual treatment
of each part, the
parallel continuation of
the four sound planes,
almost a matter of
principle. The functions
of the particular
instruments in realizing
these planes are
constantly changing,which
accounts for the even
greater variedy of
tone-colour. The decision
to forego experiment with
forms and sonorities is
reflectedin the overall
approach to musical
expression. The
predominant atmosphere of
restrained emotion, quiet
lyricism and serenity is
strongly suggestive of
classical aestetic
models. (Based on Zofia
Helman Commentary on
Szymanowski Complete
Edition, Vol. B6) (II)
The ''Second String
Quartet'' represents an
interesting attempt to
revert to classical form
coupled with the new
harmonic and tonal
vocabulary worked out
previously in the
''Slopiewnie'', ''Stabat
Mater'' and ''Mazurkas''.
It was also the first
time the composer had
used folk elements in the
framework of a major
classical form. The
''Second String Quartet''
is in a special category
among Szymanowski's
works. Though it dates
from the composer was
still occupied with folk
music, it nevertheless
shows him returning to
classical models, but at
the same time using an
aesthetic of subjective
expression, which gives
the work its own
individual stamp. The
''Second String Quartet''
synthesis of the various
directions in which
Szymanowski was
attempting to develop.
The sonority and texture
used in the first.
Quatour a Cordes No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire Durand
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: HL.50565830 For String Quartet (Par...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
HL.50565830
For
String Quartet (Parts
Only). Composed by
Philippe Hersant.
Editions Durand.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 2015. Editions
Durand #DF01620401.
Published by Editions
Durand (HL.50565830).
French.
Born in
1948 in Rome, Philippe
Hersant studied music at
the Paris Conservatory,
notably in the
composition class of
Andre Jolivet, before
residing at the Casa
Velasquez from 1970 to
1972 and then at the
Villa Medici from 1978 to
1980. Since 1973 he has
been a producer for radio
broadcasts with France
Musiques. Refusing to
play tricks with history,
Philippe Hersant has
forged a language that
extends the course of
Western music as a whole,
and, without ever seeking
to establish a school, he
was one of the first of
his generation to place
himself, once more, in
the domain of tonality
and modality. He does
not, for all that, banish
all neo-classical
tendencies. On the
contrary, he champions
the mannerism and the
deep subjectivity of his
memory as sources and
guides to creation.
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.