Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
String Quartet SKU: BR.EB-9271 Composed by Christian Mason. Chamber music...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BR.EB-9271
Composed
by Christian Mason.
Chamber music. Edition
Breitkopf. New music
(post-2000); Music
post-1945. Sheet Music.
Composed 2018. Duration
21'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9271.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9271).
ISBN 9790004185711. 0
x 0 inches.
I fell
in love with the
remarkable singing of the
Tenores di Bitti on
hearing their recordings
as a student. Their
uniquely intense vocal
timbre, their harmony,
which seemed pure and
rough at once, and the
sense that this music
was, at root, not so much
about performance as
simply being together in
the world, in a community
of spirit. At the time, I
had no intention of using
this music to my own
creative ends, but now,
here we are: Sardinian
Songbook is the second in
a cycle of works for the
Ligeti Quartet, all based
on transcriptions of
music from different
throat-singing
traditions. Like string
quartets, the tenores
usually sing in groups of
four voices, but being
free from instruments
they stand very close
together enabling the
resonances of their
voices to blend and
interact in a special
way. The quartet, of
course, can only sit so
close before their bows
clash, so I have chosen
instead to reflect this
physical closeness
inversely, by getting the
players to stand
increasingly far from one
another as the piece
progresses. In so doing,
the initial state of
sonic blend gives way to
hocketing lines, opening
up the sense of
space.Christian Mason,
2018 The four movements
may be played separately
or as a collection. If
played together the
following order should be
observed (see table of
contents).
World
premiere: Sheffield/UK,
Firth Hall, April 14,
2018, Commissioned by
Ligeti Quartet.
String Quartet SKU: BR.EB-9270 Composed by Christian Mason. Chamber music...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BR.EB-9270
Composed
by Christian Mason.
Chamber music. Edition
Breitkopf. New music
(post-2000); Music
post-1945. Sheet Music.
Composed 2018. 28 pages.
Duration 21'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9270.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9270).
ISBN 9790004185704. 9
x 12 inches.
I fell
in love with the
remarkable singing of the
Tenores di Bitti on
hearing their recordings
as a student. Their
uniquely intense vocal
timbre, their harmony,
which seemed pure and
rough at once, and the
sense that this music
was, at root, not so much
about performance as
simply being together in
the world, in a community
of spirit. At the time, I
had no intention of using
this music to my own
creative ends, but now,
here we are: Sardinian
Songbook is the second in
a cycle of works for the
Ligeti Quartet, all based
on transcriptions of
music from different
throat-singing
traditions. Like string
quartets, the tenores
usually sing in groups of
four voices, but being
free from instruments
they stand very close
together enabling the
resonances of their
voices to blend and
interact in a special
way. The quartet, of
course, can only sit so
close before their bows
clash, so I have chosen
instead to reflect this
physical closeness
inversely, by getting the
players to stand
increasingly far from one
another as the piece
progresses. In so doing,
the initial state of
sonic blend gives way to
hocketing lines, opening
up the sense of
space.Christian Mason,
2018 The four movements
may be played separately
or as a collection. If
played together the
following order should be
observed (see table of
contents).
World
premiere: Sheffield/UK,
Firth Hall, April 14,
2018, Commissioned by
Ligeti Quartet.
String Quartet SKU: SU.29000015 For String Quartet. Composed by Ch...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.29000015
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Chick Corea.
Chamber Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet. Set
of Parts. Subito Music
Corporation #29000015.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.29000015).
Composer's
Note: This quartet
was written by a
relatively inexperienced
writer for strings (me)
so, technically, my
notation may be
unorthodox (or standardly
wrong). But I find that
most string quartet
players, knowing that,
will go ahead and make
the proper adjustments
themselves. This is
better than trying to
alter the musical concept
to fit the correct
technical point.
Hippocrates is the name
of a little robot in a
science fiction series by
L. Ron Hubbard. There are
7 stories in the 2 volume
series entitled Ole Doc
Methuselah. —
Chick Corea String
Quartet Duration: 21'
Composed: 2004 Published
by: Crystal Silence Music
Also Available:.
String Quartet SKU: SU.29000010 For String Quartet. Composed by Ch...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.29000010
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Chick Corea.
Chamber Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet.
Full Score. Subito Music
Corporation #29000010.
Published by Subito Music
Corporation
(SU.29000010).
Composer's
Note: This quartet
was written by a
relatively inexperienced
writer for strings (me)
so, technically, my
notation may be
unorthodox (or standardly
wrong). But I find that
most string quartet
players, knowing that,
will go ahead and make
the proper adjustments
themselves. This is
better than trying to
alter the musical concept
to fit the correct
technical point.
Hippocrates is the name
of a little robot in a
science fiction series by
L. Ron Hubbard. There are
7 stories in the 2 volume
series entitled Ole Doc
Methuselah. —
Chick Corea String
Quartet Duration: 21'
Composed: 2004 Published
by: Crystal Silence Music
Also Available:.
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 (Parts) SKU: HL.51481120 Set of Parts. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.51481120
Set of Parts.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Wolf-Dieter Seiffert.
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN1120. Published by G.
Henle (HL.51481120).
UPC: 196288034773.
9.0x12.0x0.625
inches.
This volume
brings together Mozart's
youthful attempts at this
later so central genre of
the string quartet: the
astonishing “Lodi
Quartet†K. 80 by
the only
fourteen-year-old
composer, the three
“Quartet-Divertimen
ti†K. 136-138
which are also readily
played by chamber
orchestras, and Mozart's
first true string-quartet
cycle K. 155-160 which
was composed during his
third (north-)Italian
journey in 1772/73.
Mozart's cleanly written
scores of all the
compositions have been
preserved so that the
edition stands on a
secure foundation. In his
informative commentary,
Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the
experienced Mozart editor
at G. Henle Publishers,
devotes a separate,
comprehensive explanatory
section to the well-known
articulation problem
“dot or
wedge.†The Armida
Quartet provided artistic
input for this
edition.
About Henle
Urtext
What I can expect from
Henle Urtext
editions:
error-free, reliable
musical texts based on
meticulous musicological
research - fingerings and
bowings by famous artists
and pedagogues
preface in 3
languages with
information on the
genesis and history of
the work
Critical Commentary
in 1 – 3 languages
with a description and
evaluation of the sources
and explaining all source
discrepancies and
editorial
decisions
most beautiful music
engraving
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binding
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String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.51487120 Study Score. Compose...(+)
String Quartet (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.51487120
Study
Score. Composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Edited by Wolf-Dieter
Seiffert. Study Score.
Classical. Softcover. 138
pages. G. Henle #HN7120.
Published by G. Henle
(HL.51487120).
UPC:
196288034353.
6.75x9.5x0.395
inches.
This volume
brings together Mozart's
youthful attempts at this
later so central genre of
the string quartet: the
astonishing “Lodi
Quartet†K. 80 by
the only
fourteen-year-old
composer, the three
“Quartet-Divertimen
ti†K. 136-138
which are also readily
played by chamber
orchestras, and Mozart's
first true string-quartet
cycle K. 155-160 which
was composed during his
third (north-)Italian
journey in 1772/73.
Mozart's cleanly written
scores of all the
compositions have been
preserved so that the
edition stands on a
secure foundation. In his
informative commentary,
Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the
experienced Mozart editor
at G. Henle Publishers,
devotes a separate,
comprehensive explanatory
section to the well-known
articulation problem
“dot or
wedge.†The Armida
Quartet provided artistic
input for this
edition.
About Henle
Urtext
What I can expect from
Henle Urtext
editions:
error-free, reliable
musical texts based on
meticulous musicological
research - fingerings and
bowings by famous artists
and pedagogues
preface in 3
languages with
information on the
genesis and history of
the work
Critical Commentary
in 1 – 3 languages
with a description and
evaluation of the sources
and explaining all source
discrepancies and
editorial
decisions
most beautiful music
engraving
page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them
excellent print
quality and
binding
largest Urtext
catalogue
world-wide
longest Urtext
experience (founded 1948
exclusively for Urtext
editions)
String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.51487272 Study Score. Compose...(+)
String Quartet (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.51487272
Study
Score. Composed by
Alexander Zemlinsky.
Edited by Dominik Rahmer.
Henle Music Folios.
Classical. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN7272. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51487272).
UPC:
840126989366.
6.75x9.5x0.245
inches.
Alexander
Zemlinsky's music was
long unjustly
overshadowed by what was
regarded as the
“more
progressive†Second
Viennese School. Although
Zemlinsky was close
friends with its
protagonist Arnold
Schönberg, he never
did take the latter's
radical step into
dodecaphony. At the same
time, he composed works
that were no less
original or fully
fledged. Composed between
1913 and 1915, his Second
String Quartet in
particular pushed the
contemporaneous
understanding of form and
tonality to its limits.
With just one movement
but spanning over 1,200
measures, this
multi-faceted work
numbers among the most
significant contributions
to the genre of the time
and has long merited a
critical new edition. The
Urtext edition by G.
Henle Publishers corrects
many errors and
inaccuracies in the first
edition that came to
light after careful
comparison with the
autograph sources in
Vienna and Washington.
For the first time, too,
the metronome markings
that survive only in one
of Zemlinsky's letters
have been incorporated.
Editorial work was kindly
supported by the
Alexander Zemlinsky
Endowment Fund in
Vienna.
About Henle
Urtext
What I can expect from
Henle Urtext
editions:
error-free, reliable
musical texts based on
meticulous musicological
research - fingerings and
bowings by famous artists
and pedagogues
preface in 3
languages with
information on the
genesis and history of
the work
Critical Commentary
in 1 – 3 languages
with a description and
evaluation of the sources
and explaining all source
discrepancies and
editorial
decisions
most beautiful music
engraving
page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them
excellent print
quality and
binding
largest Urtext
catalogue
world-wide
longest Urtext
experience (founded 1948
exclusively for Urtext
editions)
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.51481272 Set of Parts. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.51481272
Set of Parts.
Composed by Alexander
Zemlinsky. Edited by
Dominik Rahmer. Henle
Music Folios. Classical.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN1272. Published by G.
Henle (HL.51481272).
UPC: 840126989250.
9.0x12.0x0.348
inches.
Alexander
Zemlinsky's music was
long unjustly
overshadowed by what was
regarded as the
“more
progressive†Second
Viennese School. Although
Zemlinsky was close
friends with its
protagonist Arnold
Schönberg, he never
did take the latter's
radical step into
dodecaphony. At the same
time, he composed works
that were no less
original or fully
fledged. Composed between
1913 and 1915, his Second
String Quartet in
particular pushed the
contemporaneous
understanding of form and
tonality to its limits.
With just one movement
but spanning over 1,200
measures, this
multi-faceted work
numbers among the most
significant contributions
to the genre of the time
and has long merited a
critical new edition. The
Urtext edition by G.
Henle Publishers corrects
many errors and
inaccuracies in the first
edition that came to
light after careful
comparison with the
autograph sources in
Vienna and Washington.
For the first time, too,
the metronome markings
that survive only in one
of Zemlinsky's letters
have been incorporated.
Editorial work was kindly
supported by the
Alexander Zemlinsky
Endowment Fund in
Vienna.
About Henle
Urtext
What I can expect from
Henle Urtext
editions:
error-free, reliable
musical texts based on
meticulous musicological
research - fingerings and
bowings by famous artists
and pedagogues
preface in 3
languages with
information on the
genesis and history of
the work
Critical Commentary
in 1 – 3 languages
with a description and
evaluation of the sources
and explaining all source
discrepancies and
editorial
decisions
most beautiful music
engraving
page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them
excellent print
quality and
binding
largest Urtext
catalogue
world-wide
longest Urtext
experience (founded 1948
exclusively for Urtext
editions)