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 (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.
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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)
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Für Anfänger
(Erste Lage). By
Lajos Vigh. By Arpad
Pejtsik. EMB Music for
Beginners. Educational
Tool. Book Only. Composed
1997. 92 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ14109. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14109).
English-German-Hungari
an.
In the string
quartets published in the
series 'Music for
Beginners', every part
can be played in the
first position. When a
viola is not available it
may be replaced by a
third violin: the part is
provided in both alto and
treble clef versions in
this publication. The
volume begins with the
characteristic Viennese
classical dances
(contredanse, Ländler,
minuet), which can be
played even after just
one or two years' of
diligent instrumental
study. These are followed
by more extensive string
quartets with several
movements, which prepare
students for playing more
serious chamber music.
The works are published
in score form as well as
parts, to make it easier
to navigate among
themusical material and
to assist with the work
of rehearsal.
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-875-1 Composed by Lotta Wenn...(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-875-1
Composed by Lotta
Wennäkoski. Classical,
contemporary. Score &
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-875-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-875-1).
Lotta
Wennäkoski's Pige
(2021-2022) for string
quartet was commissioned
to be paired with the
Death and the Maiden
quartet by Franz Schubert
(pige is Danish for
girl). The composer
tells:
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-510-1 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score an...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-510-1
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Score and
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-510-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-510-1).
ISBN
9790550115101.
Matt
hew Whittall's preface to
Bright Ferment (2019): I
have a complicated
history with the string
quartet. Actually, it's
not that complicated. I
spent months writing a
huge one in my early
twenties and hastily
withdrew it after a long
delayed premiere, vowing
never to write another.
In a typical case of
karmic retribution, my
fear of the form would
eventually be overcome by
the unrefusable offer to
write the compulsory
piece for the Banff
International String
Quartet Competition in my
native Canada. The short
duration requested, about
nine minutes, also felt
like a good way to wade
gingerly back into the
medium. The title was
originally just a
nice-sounding pair of
words that surfaced in a
brainstorming session
with fellow composer Alex
Freeman over an
injudicious amount of
fermented barley. When I
looked it up later, I
found that it was a
phrase of older coinage,
seemingly used more for
poetic resonance than any
fixed meaning. Ferment by
itself denotes a state of
confusion, change or lack
of order. With bright, it
takes on a more positive
connotation with regard
to society and
creativity: a wild
profusion of ideas barely
checked by reason. (It
may not actually mean
that, but it describes
this piece nicely, so
let's go with it.)
Fermentation in its
trendy culinary usage is
also hinted at via a
recurrent percolating
device of scattered
pizzicati. As one may
guess from the tone of
this introduction, there
is little attempt at
gravity in Bright
Ferment, the only means
by which I felt I could
sidestep the historical
and expressive weight of
the string quartet genre.
Styles, gestures and
moods are tossed around,
cross-cut and abandoned
in
stream-of-consciousness
fashion, connected by
little except an
intuitive sense of
rightness in their
juxtaposition. If the
piece acquires depth in
spite of me, it will only
be because its disparate
parts amplify and
strengthen each other
simply by being together
- much like the ensemble
itself. Bright Ferment
was commissioned by the
Banff Centre for the Arts
and Creativity and the
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, with
additional funding from
the Americas Society (New
York), for the 2019 Banff
International String
Quartet Competition.
Duration: ca. 9
minutes.
Composed by Antonin
Dvorak. Edited by Peter
Jost. Study Score.
Paperbound. Henle Study
Scores. Classical.
Softcover. 80 pages. G.
Henle #HN7045. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51487045).
ISBN
9790201870458. UPC:
888680745318.
6.75x9.5x0.244
inches.
In autumn
1895, after returning
from New York once and
for all, Dvorák took
up his former position as
teacher at the Prague
Conservatory. This
clearly had an inspiring
impact on him because in
the space of just four
weeks he composed a new
string quartet in G
major. Together with the
Quartet in A-flat major
op. 105, it forms a
glorious close to his
chamber music oeuvre.
Echoes of Bohemian folk
music are here mixed with
cantabile themes, while
his motivic working shows
him to be a master at the
height of his powers.
Even today, it seems
almost as if we can feel
the composer's
satisfaction with this
work: “I am working
so easily and it is going
so smoothly that I could
not wish it
better.â€.
Wedding Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire/avancé Southern Music Ltd
(String Solos and Ensemble/String Quartet). Arranged by Aufderhaar, Cleo. For St...(+)
(String Solos and
Ensemble/String Quartet).
Arranged by Aufderhaar,
Cleo. For String Quartet.
String Solos and
Ensembles - String
Quartet. Southern Music.
Grade 4. 12 pages.
Southern Music Company
#B458VN2. Published by
Southern Music Company
Wedding Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire/avancé Southern Music Ltd
(String Solos and Ensemble/String Quartet). Arranged by Aufderhaar, Cleo. For St...(+)
(String Solos and
Ensemble/String Quartet).
Arranged by Aufderhaar,
Cleo. For String Quartet.
String Solos and
Ensembles - String
Quartet. Southern Music.
Grade 4. 12 pages.
Southern Music Company
#B458VN1. Published by
Southern Music Company