SKU: HP.9123

Book & CD-rom with parts. 44 pages. Hope Publishing Company #9123. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.9123).

UPC: 763628191238. Michael Tyree.

Collection of six Christmas tunes This collection of string quartets is ideal for the Christmas season and offers a wealth of material for worship and concerts. The arrangements are of moderate difficulty and filled with holiday spirit and charm.

(Keys of A and G). Arranged by Hal H. Hopson. For violin I and II, viola and cello. Hope's All-Time Best Selling Choral Series. Wedding, Love, Hymntune, Children, General, Sacred. String Quartet Parts (Keys of A and G). Published by Hope Publishing Company

Strings Quartet string quartet

SKU: HP.9021

Composed by Various. Arranged by Michael Tyree. Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, General Worship, Offering, Adoration, Cross of Christ, God, Jesus Christ - Resurrection, Praise of God, Praise to Christ, Stewardship. Instrumental parts. 78 pages. Hope Publishing Company #9021. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.9021).

UPC: 763628190217.

Six classic Lent & Easter tunes arranged for string quartet This collection of string quartets is ideal for the Lent & Easter season and offers a wealth of material for worship and concerts. The arrangements are of moderate difficulty and filled with holiday spirit and charm.

Arranged by Michael Tyree. Christmas, Sacred. Book and CD- rom with parts. Hope Publishing Company #8932. Published by Hope Publishing Company

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440265S

Composed by Sydney F. Hodkinson. Large Score. With Standard notation. Duration 25 minutes. Merion Music #144-40265S. Published by Merion Music (PR.14440265S).

UPC: 680160027910.

The Second and Third Quartets were conceived at the same time; indeed, their composition intermingled, over half of No. 3 being sketched before No. 2 was completed. Accordingly, they share similar material but, like the intertwining blood of cousins, their natures differ: No. 2 being somewhat acerbic and declamatory, No. 3 more lyric and gentler. An annunicatory 'leaping motive' (derived from a motto generated by my name) opens Quartet No. 2 and inhabits the course of the piece as a cyclical binding-force. A five-note motive, usually very deliberate, also keeps recurring like an insistent caller. All three movements are based on tonal centers (I on B and E, II on D, III on C) and the harmonic 'grammar' spoken tends to recall the jazz world of my youth. To hopefully achieve a certain classical ambience was one of the goals of this piece, and all three movements have traditional forms. The first movement is a modified Sonata-Allegro design, with a severely-truncated recapitulation balanced by a lengthy, and decaying Coda. The second movement is a set of strophic variants and an epilogue interspersed with both solo ritornelli and first-movement material (the motto and the five-note motive) in the nature of a fantasia-like 'call-and-response.' It is dedicated to the memory of the American mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. The third movement is a modified Rondo (ABACBA) which evolves out of the opening motto. All three movements make much use of canonic stretti, similar gestures, and repetition. For example, the climax of movement III's Rondo throws the first movement back at us again, as if the players were reluctant to let it go, so that the entire piece could perhaps be viewed as a single large, extended, Sonata movement, with introduction and Coda.
The Second and Third Quartets were conceived at the same time; indeed, their composition intermingled, over half of No. 3 being sketched before No. 2 was completed.  Accordingly, they share similar material but, like the intertwining blood of cousins, their natures differ: No. 2 being somewhat acerbic and declamatory, No. 3 more lyric and gentler.An annunicatory ‘leaping motive’ (derived from a motto generated by my name) opens Quartet No. 2 and inhabits the course of the piece as a cyclical binding-force.  A five-note motive, usually very deliberate, also keeps recurring like an insistent caller.  All three movements are based on tonal centers (I on B and E, II on D, III on C) and the harmonic ‘grammar’ spoken tends to recall the jazz world of my youth.To hopefully achieve a certain classical ambience was one of the goals of this piece, and all three movements have traditional forms.  The first movement is a modified Sonata-Allegro design, with a severely-truncated recapitulation balanced by a lengthy, and decaying Coda.  The second movement is a set of strophic variants and an epilogue interspersed with both solo ritornelli and first-movement material (the motto and the five-note motive) in the nature of a fantasia-like ‘call-and-response. ’  It is dedicated to the memory of the American mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani.  The third movement is a modified Rondo (ABACBA) which evolves out of the opening motto.All three movements make much use of canonic stretti, similar gestures, and repetition.  For example, the climax of movement III’s Rondo throws the first movement back at us again, as if the players were reluctant to let it go, so that the entire piece could perhaps be viewed as a single large, extended, Sonata movement, with introduction and Coda.

2 violins, viola, violoncello

SKU: FG.55011-874-4

Composed by Tiina Myllärinen. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-874-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-874-4).

Tiina Myllärinen's (b. 1979) (Bad) Dreams come true for strings quartet (2022) was composed when war broke out in Europe. The composer tells: The shock, and the daily news barrage of battles could not help making an impression on my work and its material. I wondered what dreams and plans people had in Ukraine before the war, and how everything became a nightmare in a single night. Terror, fear and tension found their way into the work, along with memories of life in the past and dreams of a different future. The work is dedicated to the people of Ukraine; to the dreams that will hopefully soon come true.

This product includes the full score and a set of parts.

Tiina Myllärinen’s music has been described as cheerfully inquisitive, vigorous and original. Her works include Squarcio for ensemble, the orchestral what? (2010) and Traces (2013, commissioned by the Pro Musica Foundation and premiered at the Helsinki Music Centre on 5 June 2014) and Three Songs for voice, guitar and cello (2007).

Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.11441733S

Composed by Richard Wernick. Premiered by the Juilliard String Quartet, Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed February 19 2015. 27 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41733S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441733S).

UPC: 680160631865.

Strin g Quartet No. 9 is the fourth that Wernick has written for the Juilliard Quartet. A commission by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Wernick's ninth string quartet was premiered by the Juilliard in November, 2015 and subsequently taken on tour. The first movement's affect (marked 'Assertive, Aggressive') [compares] to Rockport's forbidding coastline in the eyes of the first. settlers. This was an apt analogy since the work's musical language is, in today's vernacular, 'gnarly.' [The second movement]...a 'never-ending throb of repeated notes'...the effect of steadily diminishing life-force, though with a 'final burst of hope from the solo cello.' Again, the composer made intriguing use of many of the different ways stringed instruments can produce sound. Geoffrey Wieting, The Boston Musical Intelligencer.

Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.114417330

Composed by Richard Wernick. Premiered by the Juilliard String Quartet, Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed February 19 2015. 27+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41733. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114417330).

UPC: 680160631841.

Strin g Quartet No. 9 is the fourth that Wernick has written for the Juilliard Quartet. A commission by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Wernick's ninth string quartet was premiered by the Juilliard in November, 2015 and subsequently taken on tour. The first movement's affect (marked 'Assertive, Aggressive') [compares] to Rockport's forbidding coastline in the eyes of the first. settlers. This was an apt analogy since the work's musical language is, in today's vernacular, 'gnarly.' [The second movement]...a 'never-ending throb of repeated notes'...the effect of steadily diminishing life-force, though with a 'final burst of hope from the solo cello.' Again, the composer made intriguing use of many of the different ways stringed instruments can produce sound. Geoffrey Wieting, The Boston Musical Intelligencer.