Composer's notes: This piece came about in a rather unusual way. I had a dream in which a string quartet were playing some very beautiful music. I was exhorting them to 'play it like late Beethoven' When I woke up, I could not remember any themes or details of what they had been playing, but had an intense memory of the 'feeling' of the music, which was soft, sensual and muted, and I immediately sat down to write a string quartet. What began to emerge was nothing like Beethoven at all, and very early into the writing I had a strong vision of some people dancing a formal and intense series of dances in a village in a very dry and hot landscape - the Australian outback or Africa maybe. The dances were very moving, with an inward, ritualistic quality and they obviously had great meaning for the people performing them. Geoffrey Burgon

String quartet

SKU: FG.042-08901-9

Composed by Aulis Sallinen. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08901-9).

ISBN 979-0-042-08901-9.

Sallinen's second quartet (dating from 1960) is an excellent example of motivic development. The Canzona presents a panorama, constantly shifting and gradually revealing new aspects of itself while the basic landscapes from which it grows remain virtually unchanged.

2 violins, viola, cello - Grade 8

SKU: A3.9781860969294

Composed by Various. String Quartets. Spectrum (ABRSM). Modern. Score and parts. 140 pages. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #9781860969294. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) (A3.9781860969294).

ISBN 9781860969294. 9 x 12 inches.

Spectrum for String Quartet is a collection of specially commissioned pieces. Three composers of widely different backgrounds and experience have written works of about eight minutes duration for players of ABRSM Grade 8 Standard.

String Quartets. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Collection. Modern. Grade 8. Score. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Composed by Mary Cohen. Quartet; Solo Small Ensembles; String Quartet. Faber Edition. Christmas; Winter. Part(s). Faber Music #12-0571520766. Published by Faber Music

By Donald Martino (1931-2005). For Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello. This edition: Study Score. Contemporary Classical. Conservatory. Sheet music

String Quartet

SKU: SU.29120020

For String Quartet. Composed by Todd Mason. Score & Parts. Subito Music Corporation #29120020. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.29120020).

String Quartet No. 1 is a powerful and harmonically dynamic string quartet in four movements. It mixes both tonal and dissonant musical landscapes in an elegant way. The quartet may also be experienced as a kind of coming-of-age story. After the calm first movement’s confident simplicity of youth, the second movement reflects the increasing complications and conflicts of young adulthood, with fraught exploration, the discovery of possible romance, and new tensions now replacing the youthful calm. The third movement reflects on maturity and the experiences of love and loss, before the finale—a set of complex chromatic fugues—evokes the fight against fate and time to achieve one’s goals in life. The movement’s end briefly recapitulates the first movement, suggesting that ultimately life comes full circle as we see the totality of our experience. As LA Opus music critic, John Stodder, said about this work, The protagonist discovers the presence of life's purpose. String Quartet Duration: 19' Composed: 2019 Published by: Todd Mason.

Voice & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y296

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. For High Voice, String Quartet and Piano. Score (2 copies supplied) and parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y296. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y296).

ISBN 9790220223525.

Natu re and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.50490147

String Quartet. Composed by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. String Ensemble. Classical. 14 pages. Sikorski #SIK8605. Published by Sikorski (HL.50490147).

12.0x8.25x0.046 inches.

Spiral bound, landscape-printed.

English Horn and String Quartet

SKU: BT.DMP108070

Composed by Karel van Eycken. Set (Score & Parts). Digital Music Print #DMP108070. Published by Digital Music Print (BT.DMP108070).

(Study Score). By Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Edited by Peter Bartok. For String Quartet (Study Score). Boosey and Hawkes Scores/Books. Softcover. 96 pages. Universal Edition #UE34311. Published by Universal Edition

Sho and string quartet

SKU: HL.49044467

For sho and string quartet. Composed by Toshio Hosokawa. Sheet music. Ensemble. Softcover. Composed 1993. Duration 16'. Schott Music #SJ10050. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044467).

14.25x10.0x0.203 inches.