Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
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
Full Score SKU: HL.367873 Full Score. Composed by Donald Crockett....(+)
Full Score
SKU:
HL.367873
Full
Score. Composed by
Donald Crockett. LKM
Music. Softcover. Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
#X054076. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing (HL.367873).
ISBN 9781705140291.
UPC: 840126966657.
9.0x12.0x0.655
inches.
Commissione
d by Caramoor Music
Festival in New York and
premiered July 14, 2017
by the Argus Quartet,
this work is in no small
part a response to this
quartet's sense of
adventure and expressive
emotional range. Inspired
by two
end-of-civilization
novels the composer was
reading prior to
composing the work, the
quartet unfolds in a
single movement, loosely
based on plot lines in
both novels. One of the
novels includes a
Traveling Symphony, an
assortment of musicians
and actors who travel the
countryside for decades
playing symphonies, jazz
and orchestral
arrangements of popular
music alongside
performances of
Shakespeare plays,
reminiscent of medieval
troupes traveling the
countryside in
plague-ridden times. The
work is written so that
the quartet embodies the
Traveling Symphony, not
only playing music but
also singing and 'stage
whispering' fragments of
King Lear and other text
across the collection of
nine scenes.
Score and Parts SKU: HL.367874 Score and Parts. Composed by Donald...(+)
Score and Parts
SKU:
HL.367874
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Donald Crockett. LKM
Music. Softcover. Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
#X504092. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing (HL.367874).
ISBN 9781705140307.
UPC: 840126966664.
9.0x12.0x0.523
inches.
Commissione
d by Caramoor Music
Festival in New York and
premiered July 14, 2017
by the Argus Quartet,
this work is in no small
part a response to this
quartet's sense of
adventure and expressive
emotional range. Inspired
by two
end-of-civilization
novels the composer was
reading prior to
composing the work, the
quartet unfolds in a
single movement, loosely
based on plot lines in
both novels. One of the
novels includes a
Traveling Symphony, an
assortment of musicians
and actors who travel the
countryside for decades
playing symphonies, jazz
and orchestral
arrangements of popular
music alongside
performances of
Shakespeare plays,
reminiscent of medieval
troupes traveling the
countryside in
plague-ridden times. The
work is written so that
the quartet embodies the
Traveling Symphony, not
only playing music but
also singing and 'stage
whispering' fragments of
King Lear and other text
across the collection of
nine scenes.
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 No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Carl Fischer
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE24 The Planet on the Table....(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE24
The Planet
on the Table.
Composed by Martin
Bresnick. Folio. Set of
Score and Parts.
48+20+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 32 minutes. Carl
Fischer Music #BE24.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.BE24).
ISBN
9781491156780. UPC:
680160915323. 9 x 12
inches. La.
Based
on Wallace Stevens' poem
The Planet on the Table
this string quartet's
world is made of the
music and sounds of
remembered times or of
something heard that the
composer, Martin
Bresnick, liked. The
quartet has five
movements, each headed by
a quotation from one of
Stevens' poems as a point
of departure or pathway
into those remembered
sounds and music. What
matters is that my music,
like his (Stevens')
poetry, should bear some
lineament or character,
some affluence, if only
half perceived in the
poverty of its sounds, of
the planet of which it
was part.. Wallace
Stevens' poem The Planet
on the Table begins -
Ariel was glad he had
written his poems, They
were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that
he liked. In this string
quartet, also entitled
The Planet on the Table,
my planet is made of the
music and sounds of a
remembered time or of
something heard that I
liked. The quartet has
five movements, each
headed by a quotation
from one of Stevens'
poems* as a point of
departure or pathway into
those remembered sounds
and music: I. Mrs.
Anderson's Swedish Baby
II. She Measured the Hour
III. Scene 10 Becomes 11
IV. Someone Has Walked
Across the Snow V. His
Self and the Sun Like
Stevens, my self and the
sun are one, and my
music, like his poetry,
although makings of my
self, is also makings of
the sun. Stevens wrote it
was not important that
his poetry survive, which
is also true of my work.
What matters is that my
music, like his poetry,
should bear some
lineament or character,
some affluence, if only
half perceived in the
poverty of its sounds, of
the planet of which it
was part. *Sources for
the titles: I. The
Pleasures of Merely
Circulating II. The Idea
of Order at Key West III.
Chaos in Motion and Not
in Motion IV. Vacancy in
the Park V. The Planet on
the Table. Wallace
Stevens' poem The Planet
on the Table begins
-Ariel was glad he had
written his poems,They
were of a remembered
timeOr of something seen
that he liked.In this
string quartet, also
entitled The Planet on
the Table, my planet is
made of the music and
sounds of a remembered
time or of something
heard that I liked.The
quartet has five
movements, each headed by
a quotation from one of
Stevens' poems* as a
point of departure or
pathway into those
remembered sounds and
music:I. Mrs. Anderson's
Swedish BabyII. She
Measured the HourIII.
Scene 10 Becomes 11IV.
Someone Has Walked Across
the SnowV. His Self and
the SunLike Stevens, my
self and the sun are one,
and my music, like his
poetry, although makings
of my self, is also
makings of the sun.
Stevens wrote it was not
important that his poetry
survive, which is also
true of my work.What
matters is that my music,
like his poetry, should
bear some lineament or
character, some
affluence, if only half
perceived in the poverty
of its sounds, of the
planet of which it was
part.*Sources for the
titles:I. The Pleasures
of Merely CirculatingII.
The Idea of Order at Key
WestIII. Chaos in Motion
and Not in MotionIV.
Vacancy in the ParkV. The
Planet on the Table.
The Music of the Night Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1185855-070 From The Phantom...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1185855-070
From The Phantom of
the Opera. Composed
by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske Pops for String
Quartet.
TV-Film-Musical-Show. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2018. 8 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1185855-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1185855-070).
ISBN 9789043153911.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
The Phantom
of the Opera is,
without doubt, one of the
great classics of our
time. The stage
production of this tale,
exciting and mysterious
in equal measure, has now
captivated over a million
theatre-goers. The
phantom sings the song
The Music of the
Night to the
beautiful Christine, who
he has just kidnapped
into his realm, as if
entrancing her. This
enchanting mood is so
authentically recreated
in Nico Dezaire’s
sensitive arrangement for
string quartet that it
feels like listening to
the singer perform the
original version from the
musical.
De
musical The Phantom of
the Opera is zonder
twijfel een van de grote
klassiekers van onze
tijd. De theaterversie
van dit spannende en
tegelijk mysterieuze
verhaal heeft in de loop
der tijd al een
miljoenenpubliek
getrokken. Met het lied
The Music of the
Night brengt het
spook de mooie Christine,
die hij zojuist naar zijn
rijk heeft ontvoerd, als
het ware in trance. De
betoverende sfeer wordt
in dit gevoelige
strijkkwartetarrangement
van de hand van Nico
Dezaire zo authentiek
overgebracht, dat het
voelt alsof je luistert
naar de zanger in de
originele versie uit de
musical.
Das
Phantom der Oper
gehört zweifellos zu
den ganz großen
Musical-Klassikern
unserer Zeit. Die
Bühnenversion dieser
ebenso spannenden wie
mystischen Geschichte hat
schon ein
Millionenpublikum in
seinen Bann gezogen. Mit
dem Lied The Music of
the Night singt das
Phantom die schöne
Christine, die er soeben
in sein Reich entführt
hat, gleichsam in Trance.
Eben diese Stimmung
lässt Nico Dezaire in
seiner einfühlsamen
Bearbeitung für
Streichquartett so
glaubwürdig wieder
aufleben, dass es sich so
anfühlt, als höre
man dem Sänger der
originalen
Musical-Fassung
zu.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE9 Lamentations. Composed by...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE9
Lamentations.
Composed by Marvin Lamb.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
24+12+12+11+10 pages.
Duration 15 minutes, 40
seconds. Carl Fischer
Music #BE9. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.BE9).
ISBN
9780825895234. UPC:
798408095239. Key: C
major.
Lamb wrote
his String Quartet in
2007 for the Crouse
Quartet, an ensemble made
up of graduate students
at OU. Long, searing and
sustained chords build to
an exquisite agony of
strings. For advanced
performers. Duration:
15'40.