Contralto, Baroque string quartet (contralto(2 glass crystals).2vn.va da gamba.v...(+)
Contralto, Baroque string
quartet (contralto(2
glass crystals).2vn.va da
gamba.vc)
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Score
and Parts. Composed
by Joseph Schwantner.
This edition: Folder.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Softcover.
Composed 2012. 216 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #ED31320. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045309).
ISBN
9781495082443. UPC:
888680656577.
9.0x12.0x0.859 inches.
English.
I was
immediately drawn to the
quartet's poignant,
intimate and expressive
sound world, the
evocative and hauntingly
beautiful voice of
contralto Karen Clark and
the poetry of Henry David
Thoreau whose words so
thoroughly capture the
transcendental spirit of
nineteenth century New
England life. Living and
working in the high hills
of rural New Hampshire
provided a synergy of
poetry and music that
formed an ideal union to
help frame the mood,
character and direction
of this work. Joseph
Schwantner.
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.
3rd
string quartet.
Composed by Joerg
Widmann. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Score and parts. Composed
2003. 112 pages. Duration
12'. Schott Music
#ED9749. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49033270).
ISBN
9790001136860.
9.25x12.0x0.3
inches.
The
Jagdquartett (Hunt
Quartet), which Jorg
Widmann wrote as his
third string quartet in
2003, following the
Choralquartett, also
begins with a visible
gesture. After a short
signal cry from the
performers, the piece
starts by quoting Robert
Schumann's Papillons op.
2, and for its full
duration retains this
gesture, these starting
sounds. The degrees of
recognizability do change
continuously, to be sure,
in the furious, racing
organism of the score.
The contours change into
forms on another level,
yet now and then the
begining material returns
clearly to the fore,
initiated anew by a cry
from the performers, and
is then digested or
mutated as a rhythmic
study into a field of
harmonic experimentation.
On rare occasions, there
are moments of pause - as
though the musicians were
testing the atmosphere,
as though they were
sensing the weather, so
as ultimately to continue
playing the quartet
across the fields an
forests of notes. A hunt
after joyful performance,
a chase, the whip
cracking, after the thing
to be shot, the sound,
its performer, perhaps
the composer himself? - A
last shout, morendo, dal
niente... - The victim is
not the audience, at any
rate.When comparing the
output of string quartets
from the 18th century to
thetime of Schumann, it
appears to have dropped
considerably. Schumann
composed only three
complete quartets, all of
them in the so-called
'chamber music year'
1842. Jorg Widmann, who
counts Robert Schumann
among his greatest
inspirations, finished a
series of five string
quartets in 2005, at the
same age as Schumann. The
quartets in the cycle
form in themselves the
characters of the
movements of the
classical quartet.
Jagdquartett represents
the fast middle movement,
the scherzo. Widmann's
work appears rough and
wild in the style of
Schumann's alter ego
Florestan. His hunt
begins in the tempo of
'allegro vivace assai'
with the final theme of
Schumann's Papillons
which often appears or is
cited in many of
Schumann's compositions.
Widmann eventually
dismantles the thematic
material of his fierce
quartet, thus
skeletonising his
prey.
Composed
by Manfred Trojahn.
Stapled. Score. Composed
2009. 43 pages. Duration
21 minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA09378_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA09378).
ISBN 9790006539086.
32.5 x 25.5 cm
inches.
A modern
sequel to the music of
the Romantic era.
The first
movement hints at the
chromatic of
“Tristanâ€;
cantilena lines convey a
mournful scene. It is
succeeded by a brilliant
scherzo with the cryptic
title “Erste fremde
Szene†(First
Foreign/Unknown Scene
– one is invited
to solve this riddle),
while the third movement,
with its singing quality,
is related to the first.
The final movement, a
“Zweite fremde
Szeneâ€
(“Second
Foreign/Unknown
Sceneâ€), alludes to
the “last
dance†tradition,
with its ironic
undertones and the
copious use of sixths,
counterpointed with
tarantella rhythms.
A rewarding,
striking work, equally
valuable for concerts
combining older
compositions with new
works as for contemporary
music programmes.
This product
includes the score and
the parts (A4 sized).
American-Finn
ish composer Alex Freeman
(b.1972) has established
himself among the
foremost composers of
choral music in Finland.
A dedicated citizen of
his musical community, a
teacher, and a choral
singer himself, he
composes music that
reflects an appreciation
for a wide range of
aesthetics and a passion
for communicating with
listeners and performers.
In his choral works, in
particular, we find music
that aims to be sonorous,
melodic, and resonant,
but is always crafted to
carefully avoid the
cliches that can burden
conventional tonality.
His instrumental
works run the gamut: a
cantata with orchestra
based on poetry of
Whitman; a significant
body of solo piano works
that reveal deep roots in
everything from austere
absolute music to soaring
elegaic rhetoric (see
Albany Records, Inner
Voice); his chamber work
Blueshift (Navona
Records), which is a kind
of paean to Reich and
Adams in miniature;
open-ended modular works,
like various iterations
of his Slow All Clocks
for electronic media,
solo clarinet, and mixed
choirs of kanteles; and,
recently, some new
directions in microtonal
music.
Tunes for My String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Boosey and Hawkes
For 2 Violins, Viola (or Violin 3) and Cello. By Sheila Nelson. (Score and Part...(+)
For 2 Violins, Viola (or
Violin 3) and Cello. By
Sheila Nelson. (Score
and Parts). Boosey and
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Book only. Size
8.25x11.75 inches. 72
pages. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes.
Composed
by Peteris Vasks. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
Parts. Composed 2004. 56
pages. Duration 25'.
Schott Music #ED9809.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49033305).
ISBN
9790001137911. UPC:
884088408053.
9.0x12.0x0.202
inches.
String
Quartet No. 5 consists of
two contrasting
movements. The first
movement, being present,
immediately leads to an
atmosphere of high
emotional tension. The
prevailing atmospheric
elements of the music are
dramatic and passionate,
alternating with each
other like a
kaleidoscope. In contrast
to that, a second theme
is intoned three times -
an invitation, a memory
of the existence of
another world, a
light-house which
illuminates the twilight
in which we live so
often. But this
invitation remains
unheard. The first
movement concludes with
dissonances in the upper
register - a cry of utter
desperation.The second
movement, so distant ...
yet so near, is the calm,
unhurried vocal section
of the quartet. A
forgiving, loving look at
a world tortured by grief
and contradictions.
Gradually, the singing
becomes more personal,
more emotional and more
dramatic. The rhythmic
figure of a funeral march
in the recapitulation of
the second movement is a
gesture of loss.
Eventually, the quartet
loses itself in an
atmosphere of
light-filled grief.
Peteris Vask.
String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960-). Boosey a...(+)
String Quartet Study
Score.
Composed by Mark-Anthony
Turnage (1960-). Boosey
and
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 24
pages. Boosey and Hawkes
#M060136085. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.48024787 String Quartet Study Sco...(+)
String Quartet (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.48024787
String
Quartet Study Score.
Composed by Mark-Anthony
Turnage. Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Duration 1200 seconds.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M06013085. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024787).
UPC:
888680967529.
Contu
sion is a concise,
poignantly balanced one
movement cry of pain. Its
structure echoes
classical sonata form,
with its tight, numb and
often repeated opening
figure flowering into a
much more anguished
central section before
the terse figure returns
transformed yet
unassuaged in a bleakly
whispered ending in which
the cello briefly takes
wing.
