Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Masterworks; Quartet; Solo Small Ensemb...(+)
Composed by Johannes
Brahms (1833-1897).
Masterworks; Quartet;
Solo Small Ensembles;
String Quartet. Kalmus
Edition. Masterwork;
Romantic. Book. 144
pages. Kalmus Classic
Edition #00-K03240.
Published by Kalmus
Classic Edition
String quartet SKU: HL.49045639 Chaconne. Composed by Fred Lerdahl...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HL.49045639
Chaconne. Composed
by Fred Lerdahl. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2016.
108 pages. Duration 990
seconds. Schott Music #ED
30174. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045639).
ISBN
9781540004796. UPC:
888680710774.
9.5x12.0x0.37
inches.
Chaconne
(2016), for string
quartet, was commissioned
by the Daedalus Quartet
to celebrate its 15th
anniversary. The
commission was supported
by New Music USA, made
possible by annual
program support and/or
endowment gifts from
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, Helen F.
Whitaker Fund, and Aaron
Copland Fund for Music.My
music has a substantial
history with Daedalus. I
composed the Third String
Quartet (2008) for them,
and subsequently they
performed my three string
quartets on several
occasions and recorded
them brilliantly on
Bridge Records (Bridge
9352: Music of Fred
Lerdahl, vol. 3).
Chaconne is in one
movement lasting 19
minutes. It is
effectively my fourth
string quartet. Quartets
1-3 form a unified cycle
lasting 70 minutes. When
I finished the cycle, I
thought I would never
write again for the
medium; yet I could not
resist the opportunity of
working again with
Daedalus. The issue was
how to compose another
string quartet unrelated
to the earlier cycle. The
solution came from my
solo cello piece There
and Back Again (2010),
which was based on a
four-bar variation
pattern from a
17th-century chaconne.
Unlike the asymmetrical
phrases and expanding
variations of much of my
music, the chaconne form
requires symmetrical
phrases and strictly
periodic variations. I
wished to work again with
these symmetries but on a
larger scale. Chaconne
also differs in character
and expression from the
three-quartet cycle. The
cycle is inward and
intense, a kind of
psychological excavation.
Chaconne is, for the most
part, transparent and
playful. Many of its
textures emerge from
little canons, not
completely unlike the
rounds that children
sing. Any composer who
writes in chaconne form
(one thinks above all of
the last movement of
Bach's D minor violin
partita and the finale of
Brahms's Fourth Symphony)
is confronted with the
challenge of how to
create a larger form out
of a constantly repeating
pattern.My Chaconne grows
from paired
antecedent-consequent
phrases, each variation
lasting eight bars. The
50 variations group into
three large rotations,
forming three arcs of
tension and relaxation,
with subtle parallel
connections across the
rotations.
Notwithstanding my
attraction to chaconne
form, I purposefully
disguised its symmetries
and periodicities in
order to build an overall
dramatic shape. Fred
Lerdahl.
String quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49007611 Composed by Cornelius Uwe Gus...(+)
String quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49007611
Composed
by Cornelius Uwe Gustav
Jenner. Edited by Horst
Hermann Heussner. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. 148 pages. Schott
Music #ED 7896. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49007611).
ISBN
9790001081757.
Gust
av Jenner (1865-1920), a
student of Brahms', wrote
only three string
quartets. The Third
String Quartet in F major
was completed in 1911 and
premiered by the Rebner
Quartet. Common to all
Jenner's Quartets is his
way of infusing the
classical model with his
own musical language,
both on an intellectual
plane and from a
technical point of view.
True to the tradition of
the genre, the classical
form of the string
quartet is retained,
without however showing
itself to be a constraint
in the completion of the
cycle. What stands out is
the sophistication of
detail and the purity of
form achieved through
integration of the
elements of composition
and nuances of mood.
Score and Parts. Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Egon Voss. ...(+)
Score and Parts. Composed
by
Franz Schubert
(1797-1828).
Edited by Egon Voss.
Henle
Music Folios. Classical.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN1317.
Published by G. Henle
Study Score. Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Egon Voss. Henl...(+)
Study Score. Composed by
Franz Schubert
(1797-1828).
Edited by Egon Voss.
Henle
Study Scores. Classical.
Softcover. 28 pages. G.
Henle
#HN7317. Published by G.
Henle