String Quartet 2Vln.Vla.Vlc SKU: PE.EP68680 Composed by George Lewis. Edi...(+)
String Quartet
2Vln.Vla.Vlc
SKU:
PE.EP68680
Composed
by George Lewis. Edition
Peters. Contemporary.
Score and Part(s). 128
pages. Edition Peters
#98-EP68680. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP68680).
ISBN
9790300762616.
A
lthough his
Signifying Riffs
(1998) for percussion and
strings is halfway there,
String Quartet 1.5:
Experiments in
Living (2016) is the
first proper string
quartet by composer
George Lewis. Borrowing
its title from the
writings of John Stuart
Mill, Experiments in
Living leads the
performers through a
series of idiosyncratic
episodes featuring
extremes of gesture and
extended technique over
the course of a single,
16-minute
movement.
Commissio
ned by the Fromm
Foundation, String
Quartet 1.5: Experiments
in Living was
composed for Spektral
Quartet, who gave the
premiere performance in
October 2016 at Chicago's
Harris Theater. This set
of score and parts has
been made available for
sale by Edition Peters as
part of the Peters
Contemporary Chamber
Series and includes full
performance notes.
Chopsticks and superball
mallets are required to
achieve some of the
score's percussive
playing
techniques.
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Tango Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Schott
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.49045929 No. 7 ...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49045929
No. 7 from:
“Jazz-like. Partita
for Piano†String
Quartet Score and
Parts. Composed by
Erwin Schulhoff. Arranged
by Wolfgang Birtel.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. 12
pages. Schott Music
#ED22607. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045929).
9.0x12.0x0.057
inches.
The
Austro-Hungarian composer
Erwin Schulhoff
(1894-1942) was musically
precocious: At the
suggestion of AntonÃn
Dvorák, he
receivedpiano lessons at
the age of seven, and at
the age of ten became a
student at the Prague
Conservatory. Further
piano studies in Vienna,
Cologne and Leipzig as
well as composition
lessons with Max Reger
supplemented his
education. His Jewish
heritage, which defamed
his music as
“degenerateâ€,
and his sympathy for
communism, however, cost
him his life. In Prague
and finally interned in
Wülzburg near
Weissenburg in Bavaria,
he died of tuberculosis.
Schulhoff's musical
significance lies in the
integration of jazz into
art music, for example in
his oratorio H.M.S. Royal
Oak or in his Hot Sonata
for alto saxophone and
piano. He earned his
living as a jazz pianist
for a long time. In
August 1922 he wrote four
short piano pieces, his
Rag Music, to which he
added four more phrases
in November: released as
Partita, also known as
Jazz-like Partita - with
the fashion dances
Ragtime, Foxtrott,
Shimmy, Boston and - as
No. 7 - a tango. From a
piano to a string quartet
movement, the arrangement
presents itself as a
delicate and smart,
technically not too
difficult sweet, suitable
as a diversion or
addition in a quartet
program.
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String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.29120030 For String Quartet. Composed by To...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.29120030
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Todd Mason.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#29120030. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.29120030).
String Quartet
No. 2 is in three
movements. The 1st
movement engages from the
opening bar with fast
paced, off kilter 7/8
tutti rhythms and
sharp-edged harmonies.
This is a kind of musical
caffeine living between
tonal and polytonalism
with rich, sliding chords
and a haunting middle
section reminiscent of
Armenian folks tunes. The
2nd movement offers
emotional storytelling
with clear tonality but
with moments of more
complex stacked harmonies
and tension. The 3rd
movement is lively with
raw energy. Voices are
rapidly interchanged in a
dance of weaving motivic
development until the
satisfying rush of notes
to the end.String Quartet
Duration: 15' Composed:
2019 Published by: Todd
Mason String Quartet No.
2 (Youtube):.
String Quartet string quartet SKU: PE.EP6623 1961. Composed by Rog...(+)
String Quartet string
quartet
SKU:
PE.EP6623
1961. Composed by
Roger Reynolds. String
Quartets. Edition Peters.
Living Composer. Score.
Composed 1961; First
Performance: 31 July 1961
Tanglewood Music
Festival, Lenox Quartet.
28 pages. Duration
00:13:00. Edition Peters
#98-EP6623. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP6623).
ISBN
9790300719283.
4
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performance
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Contralto, Baroque string quartet (contralto(2 glass crystals).2vn.va da gamba.v...(+)
Contralto, Baroque string
quartet (contralto(2
glass crystals).2vn.va da
gamba.vc)
SKU:
HL.49045309
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Joseph Schwantner.
This edition: Folder.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Softcover.
Composed 2012. 216 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #ED31320. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045309).
ISBN
9781495082443. UPC:
888680656577.
9.0x12.0x0.859 inches.
English.
I was
immediately drawn to the
quartet's poignant,
intimate and expressive
sound world, the
evocative and hauntingly
beautiful voice of
contralto Karen Clark and
the poetry of Henry David
Thoreau whose words so
thoroughly capture the
transcendental spirit of
nineteenth century New
England life. Living and
working in the high hills
of rural New Hampshire
provided a synergy of
poetry and music that
formed an ideal union to
help frame the mood,
character and direction
of this work. Joseph
Schwantner.
Tenor & String Quartet SKU: PE.EP72822 Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s...(+)
Tenor & String Quartet
SKU: PE.EP72822
Composed by Jonathan
Dove. Voice(s) & Various
Instruments. Edition
Peters. Living Composer.
Score and Part(s). 164
pages. Duration 00:30:00.
Edition Peters
#98-EP72822. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP72822).
ISBN
9790577011769. 232 x
303mm inches.
English.
I have
only visited Damascus
once, twenty years ago,
on the way to
Palmyra. I had a
purpose (I was writing
music for a play about
Palmyra’s Queen
Zenobia) but essentially
I was a tourist.
Like any visitor, I was
thrilled to step out of
the noisy modern city
into the magical ancient
world of the walled Old
City, its vibrant souk
leading to the
magnificent mosque, and a
labyrinth of winding,
narrow streets filled
with the smell of
unleavened
bread.
In Palmyra,
I was met with
extraordinary kindness
everywhere. On one
occasion, a little
Bedouin boy noticed that
I was risking sunstroke
wandering bare-headed
among the spectacular
ruins: he showed me how
to tie a turban, then
took me to have tea with
his family in their
tent.
Since then, I
have watched helplessly
as these places of wonder
have been devastated and
their inhabitants
scattered and
killed. When the
Sacconi Quartet suggested
that I might choose a
Syrian poet for our
collaboration, I welcomed
the idea.
I
searched for a long time
to find a contemporary
poet whose work might
gain from any music I
could imagine. I
felt it was important to
find first-hand accounts
of the Syrian experience
– but, of course, I
was always reading them
in translation. In
an anthology
called Syria
Speaks, I was
astonished to read
something that looked
like prose, but was full
of poetry. It was
Anne-Marie
McManus’s fine
translation of Ali
Safar’s A
Black Cloud in a Leaden
White Sky
– an
eloquent, thoughtful,
contained yet vivid
account of life in a
war-torn country, all the
more moving for its
restraint.
In
setting these words, I
have not attempted to
imitate Syrian
music. However,
there is what might be
called a linguistic
accommodation in my
choice of scale, or
mode. Several
movements are in a mode
that I first discovered
while writing a cantata
commemorating the First
World War: it has a
tuning that I associate
with war, its violence
and desolation.
This eight-note
mode is similar to scales
found in Syrian
music. I did not
choose it in the
abstract: it emerged from
the harmonies I was
exploring in the earlier
work, and emerged again
as I was looking for the
right musical colours to
set Ali Safar’s
words. In this
work, its Arabic aspect
is more prominent. -
Jonathan
Dove
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Staeliana Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
String quartet SKU: BO.B.3542 Composed by Domenec Gonzalez de la Rubia. P...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
BO.B.3542
Composed by
Domenec Gonzalez de la
Rubia. Published by
Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3542).
Staeliana was
commissioned by the
Fundacio Caixa de
Catalunya in 2007 for the
inauguration of an
exposition of the work of
Nicolas Staël at La
Pedrera, Barcelona. In
this work I wanted to
compose homage to a
painter who knew how to
join together in his
unique works both the
traditions of the past
along with the vanguard
of his time. Beginning
with figurative works
which lead toward
abstraction, his body of
work can be defined as a
contrast between these
two concepts which, with
extreme simplicity,
define his entire
artistic conception.
Staeliana, an expressive
chorale, at times both
luminous and dramatic,
dissolves into the most
minimal expression. From
the first joining
together of the voices it
concludes with utter
simplicity of expression.
The suicide of the artist
in 1955 is representative
of the dissolution of his
existence as well as of
his artistic works. This
contrast between
figurative and
abstraction is reflected
in the music by the
contrast between
stability and tension. I
believe that this duality
may be found both in his
work and in his life,
always oscillating
between living a creative
life or opting for death,
which may be seen as a
fusion in nothingness
with the plenitude of
purest simplicity.
String Quartet SKU: HL.49045761 Toward the Savage. Composed by Tok...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.49045761
Toward
the Savage. Composed
by Tokuhide Niimi. String
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1110 seconds.
Zen-On #ZN590227.
Published by Zen-On
(HL.49045761).
ISBN
9784115902275.
8.25x11.75x0.145
inches.
Improvisati
onal energy inherent in
music that spouts The
Savage Mind, which is
mentioned by Japanese
musicologist and
anthopologist Masakuni
Kitazawa in his book
Sound as Metaphor, always
fascinates me. One of the
aims of writing this work
was to test whether a
highly refined medium
like a string quartet can
produce the energy.
'Inherent in music'
mentioned above can be
restated as 'inherent in
human being.' Beyond the
intellectual inquiring
mind, I hope this worl is
strongly connected to
'living in the present.'
Tokuhide Niimi.
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