String Quartet SKU: HL.14035182 Gathering (Score). Composed by Kev...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14035182
Gathering (Score).
Composed by Kevin Volans.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score.
Composed 1993. 40 pages.
Chester Music #CH60972.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14035182).
ISBN 9780711967311.
9.0x12.0x0.14
inches.
String
Quartet No.2 Hunting:
Gathering was
commissioned by Doris and
Myron Beigler and the
Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts for the
Kronos Quartet. It was
first performed by them
in December 1987, San
Francisco. Duration 24
minutes. Parts available:
CH61330.
Composed by Lynne Latham.
Arranged by Catherine
McMichael. Performance
Music Ensemble; String
Quartet. Ludwig Masters.
Wedding. Score. Latham
Music Enterprises
#36-52703558. Published
by Latham Music
Enterprises
(AP.36-52703558).
ISBN
9781628760330. UPC:
660355067679.
English.
Don't let
this title fool
you...this collection of
ten meditative preludes
is useful for more than
just weddings. For
service introits,
communion gatherings,
memorials, funerals or
prayer interludes these
lovely settings will find
a way to your folder
throughout the year in
church or concert
venues.
These products
are currently being
prepared by a new
publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.
String Quartet (str quar) SKU: BR.MR-32069 Composed by Johannes Brahms. E...(+)
String Quartet (str quar)
SKU: BR.MR-32069
Composed by Johannes
Brahms. Edited by
Christian Beyer. Chamber
music; stapled. Musica
Rara. Overture; Romantic.
Score and parts. 44
pages. Duration 10'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #MR
32069. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.MR-32069).
ISBN
9790004489499. 9 x 12
inches.
Johannes
Brahms wrote the Academic
Festival Overture op. 80
in Bad Ischl in the
summer of 1880 as a token
of thanks for the
honorary doctorate that
had been bestowed upon
him the previous year by
the University of
Breslau. In keeping with
the event, the work
contains various
folkloric and student
songs which Brahms
borrowed from the
well-known Commers-Buch
fur den deutschen
Studenten, a book
containing material for
the annual students'
social gatherings. The
overture's first
performance was held in
Breslau on 4 January 1881
under the direction of
the composer. The present
arrangement for string
quartet by Christian
Beyer compliments the
already available
overtures by Mozart,
which Beyer also arranged
for this
instrumentation.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440572S Composed by Ellen Taaffe Z...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440572S
Composed
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Sws. Premiere: South
Mountain Concerts,
Pittsfield, MA; Saint
Lawrence String Quartet.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2012. 16 pages.
Duration 12 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40572S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440572S).
ISBN
9781598066029. UPC:
680160617685. 9x12
inches.
When the
family heirs to the
legendary Galimir String
Quartet (three sisters
and a brother) gathered
to commemorate the
centenary birth years of
these famed performers,
they chose Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich to commission for
this honor. The composer,
who has also worked
professionally as a
violinist, responded with
a one-movement odyssey
entitled Voyage,
cross-breeding her own
characteristic style with
glimpses of Viennese
waltzes and other Galimir
flavor. There is a sweet,
sad lyricism to this
work, a hectic
discord..., some wailing
and moaning, these moods
alternating with dancing
klezmer rhythms of Jewish
wedding music that take
over and make things
right in the end.
(Stanley Fefferman,
BachTrack.com).
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. S...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114405050
Composed
by John Downey. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 53
pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40505.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114405050).
UPC:
680160008377. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique efffect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water ,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorlines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluch
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against the
sheets of sound conjured
up by the two violins
playing a flood of
swirling figures, evokes
a kind of static motion
in spae. Here, the
virtually imperceptible
manner in which this
hushed whisper continues
incessantly, can suggest
the potential fluidity
with which movement may
inch forward... Later
into the fourth movement
, two fairly extended
solos by the second and
then the first violins,
lead to a kind of
spontaneous dialogue
among the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of 'psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440505S
Composed
by John Downey. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 53 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40505S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440505S).
UPC:
680160008391. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique effect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorelines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluck
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against sheets
of sound conjured up by
the two violins playing a
flood of swirling
figures, evokes a kind of
static motion in space.
Here , the virtually
imperceptible manner in
which this hushed whisper
continues incessantly,
can suggest the potential
fluidity with which
movement may inch
forward... Later into the
fourth movement, two
fairly extended solos by
the second and then the
first violins, lead to a
kind of spontaneous
dialogue amont the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
seem of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.