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?
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114414250 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114414250
Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard Notation. Op.
103. 28+9+8+9+8 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41425. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414250).
UPC:
680160607846.
Lowel
l Liebermann's 4th String
Quartet was commissioned
by the Canandaigua Lake
Chamber Music Festival
and the Wood Library,
Canandaigua, NY, for the
Orion Quartet in
celebration of their 20th
Anniversary. The quartet
was premiered by the
Orions at the Canandaigua
Lake Chamber Music
Festival in Rochester, NY
on February 9th, 2008. To
quote the writer Mark
Greenberg: It's a
remarkable piece. The
mood is elegiacal and
meditative, the melodic
lines sinuous and
searching, the harmonies
rich and astonishingly
beautiful. Liebermann
works within the
traditions of Western
tonality, but that is a
mansion with many rooms.
Liebermann inhabits all
of them as his expressive
purposes require, and he
doesn't mind knocking
down a wall to create new
harmonic spaces. The
Fourth Quartet doesn't
exactly fit the
neoromantic niche into
which Liebermann is
sometimes placed. Much of
the music, especially
near the beginning, is a
highly advanced and fluid
chromatic expressionism
with modernist
tendencies. Sometimes
this roiling cloudscape
breaks open to allow a
patch of near-classical
harmony and
almost-resolution. Near
the midpoint the clouds
lift in leaping
modulations. Several
chordal passages recall
Russian Orthodox chant.
Suddenly, when you've
begun to think the
somber, deliberate pace
has gone on a bit too
long, Liebermann
introduces a kind of
hobbled, stilted jazz
idiom. The piece dies in
pensive quiet.
Subject Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Carl Fischer
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.BE11F Composed by Jason Eckardt. Ful...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.BE11F
Composed by
Jason Eckardt. Full
score. 78 pages. Duration
16 minutes. Carl Fischer
Music #BE11F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.BE11F).
ISBN
9780825888595. UPC:
798408088590. 8.5 x 11
inches.
Beginning
in the 1950s, the CIA
became very interested in
psychological research
beingconducted on the
effects of sensory
deprivation on humans.
The research, that
suggestedrapid regression
in those tested, provided
a framework for sections
of what would later
beknown as the KUBARK
manual, the first a
series of US-government
documents thatprovided
techniques for
interrogating detainees.
These methods involved
radicallyaltering a
detainee’s sense
of time and
environment.Among these
techniques, some
developed independently
of the manuals by
interrogators,were the
manipulation of light and
sound. In order to weaken
the resolve of a
detaineeand prolong
“capture
shock,†complete
sensory deprivation
followed by blasts of
light ornoise, or very
loud music, proved
effective. So much so
that variations and
combinationsof these
techniques were widely
used by the United States
as well as both its
allies andenemies in
Vietnam, Latin America,
Northern Ireland, and the
Middle East.Though the
idea of sound as a weapon
is at least as old as the
account of
Joshua’s siegeof
Jericho, it was only
recently deemed
“inhuman and
degrading†for the
purposes ofinterrogation
by the European Court of
Human Rights in the 1978
case “Ireland v.
theUnited
Kingdom.â€. Accid
entals apply only to the
notes they precede with
the exception of tied or
consecutively repeated
notes.Tempi are
consistent throughout the
meter changes (Le.,
~'=),)=)l, etc.).Grace
notes are always to be
played as fast as
possible. Each grace note
in a group should be of
the same duration.
Gracenotes curtail the
previous measured note's
duration with the
exception noted
below.Approximate
duration: 16 minutes.
By Wen-chung Chou. String Quartets. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Modern. Score. ...(+)
By Wen-chung Chou. String
Quartets. For 2 Violins,
Viola, Cello. Modern.
Score. Composed 1996;
First Performance:
December 1st, 1996
(Brentano Quartet).
Duration circa 35
minutes. Published by
Edition Peters
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.284555 String Quartet. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.284555
String Quartet.
Composed by John Luther
Adams. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2018.
74 pages. Chester Music
#CH87868. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.284555).
UPC:
888680912901. 9x12
inches.
Composers
note:
I never
imagined I would write a
string quartet. Then I
heard the JACK Quartet,
and I understood how I
might be able to make the
medium my own. The result
was The Wind in High
Places - a twenty-minute
work composed entirely on
natural harmonics and
open strings.
Over
the next few years, two
more quartets followed.
The second quartet,
untouched, is a further
exploration of the
aeolian sound world of
the first. Then, in
Canticles of the Sky, the
musicians finally touch
the fingerboards of their
instruments.
And
now comes Everything That
Rises.
This fourth
quartet is more
expansive, both in time
and in space. It grows
out of Sila: The Breath
of the World - a
performance-length
choral/orchestral work
composed on a rising
series of sixteen
harmonic
clouds.
Everything
That Rises traverses this
same territory, but in a
much more melodic
way.
Each musician
is a soloist, playing
throughout. They surround
the audience. Time
floats.
Over the
course of an hour, the
lines spin out - always
rising - in acoustically
perfect intervals that
grow progressively
smaller as they spiral
upward... until the music
dissolves into the soft
noise of the bows,
sighing.
Trombone, String Quartet SKU: HL.14023162 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
Trombone, String Quartet
SKU: HL.14023162
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 28 pages. Music
Sales #KP01123. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14023162).
ISBN
9788759860960.
Danish.
Nocturnal
(1998-2001) for Trombone
and String Quartet was
composed by Bent Sorensen
. Progamme note: The two
movements of Nocturnal
were written with a gab
of three years. The last
movement, which bears the
title The Wings of Night,
was commisioned by Warsaw
Autumn in 1998, while the
first movement -
Mondnacht - was
commisioned for Ultima
Festival in Oslo in 2001.
Despite the three years
gab, these are not two
separate pieces which
have been linked
together. The sketches
for the first movement
were begun immediately
after the first
performance of the second
movement in Warsaw 1998.
As the title suggests,
there is a nocturnal
atmosphere in the work.
In the first movement
weare perhaps in a park
and notice the shadows of
the clouds passing the
bright moon. In the short
second movement we are
perhaps with
Shakespeare's Juliet,
calling for love, calling
for the night: Come
night, come Romeo, come,
thou day in night, For
thou wilt lie upon the
wings of night Whither
than snow upon a raven's
back. ...perhaps we are
elsewhere - at night!
Nocturnal was written for
Christian Lindberg and
the Arditti Quartet and
premiered in Oslo in
2001.
Clouded Yellow Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.81001265 For String Quartet. Composed by Mi...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.81001265
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Michael
Gordon. Chamber Music,
String Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#81001265. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.81001265).
String quartet
Duration: 10' Composed:
2010 Published by: Red
Poppy Ltd.
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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