String
quartet based on Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Score and. Composed
by Ludger Vollmer.
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 196 pages.
Duration 1920 seconds.
Schott Music #ED22466.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046476).
ISBN
9781705102718. UPC:
840126931679.
My
love is as a fever was
inspired by William
Shakespeare's sonnets.
The work was created for
the Faust Quartet with
the aim of creating a
counterpart to Alban
Berg's Lyrical Suite
using new compositional
techniques, both in terms
of emotional expression
and technical
requirements. It is a
melodic-rhythmic
composition, whose
techniques consist of the
transformation of
non-European music and
the music that was
practiced in Europe a
thousand years ago.
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Nocturnal - Partitur Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Music Sales
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.
String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.14042753 Composed by Various. Mus...(+)
String Quartet (String
Quartet)
SKU:
HL.14042753
Composed
by Various. Music Sales
America.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Softcover. Chester Music
#CH61366. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14042753).
ISBN
9780711965423.
9.25x12.0x0.323
inches.
A series of
popular music for working
string quartets. Light
enjoyable repertoire
pieces and entertaining
encores. Each folio
contains five pieces.
Contents: 'Moon River',
'Schindler's List',
'Speak Softly Love',
'Theme FromE.T.', 'A
Whole New World'.
The Wings Of Night, Kopi Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Music Sales
Trombone, String Quartet SKU: HL.14033404 Composed by Bent Sorensen. Musi...(+)
Trombone, String Quartet
SKU: HL.14033404
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Music Sales
#KP00662. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14033404).
ISBN
9788759874769.
Danish.
The Wings
Of Night for Trombone and
String Quartet was
composed by Bent Sorensen
in 1998, as a commission
from the Warsaw Autumn
for Christian Lindberg
and the Silesian String
Quartet. Programme note:
I do not yet know what to
write about this short
piece which I have just
finished. But like my
Piano Concerto LA NOTTE,
it seems to take place at
night-time - or perhaps
it is only because I
wrote the piece by night.
In short, the title is
from Shakespeare's 'Romeo
and Juliet'.Juliet sings
to the night - the night
of love: 'Come, night,
come Romeo, come, thou
day in night, For thou
wilt lie upon the wings
of night, Whither than
new snow upon a raven's
back.THE WINGS OFNIGHT
was composed as a
commission from the
Warsaw Autumn for
Christian Lindberg and
the Silesian String
Quartet. (Bent
Sorensen).
String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.14042752 Composed by Various. Mus...(+)
String Quartet (String
Quartet)
SKU:
HL.14042752
Composed
by Various. Music Sales
America.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Softcover. Composed 1993.
Chester Music #CH61369.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14042752).
ISBN 9780711965454.
9.0x12.0x0.403
inches.
A series of
popular music for working
string quartets. Light
enjoyable repertoire
pieces and entertaining
encores. Each folio
contains five pieces.
Contents: 'Empty Chairs
at Empty Tables', 'I
Don't Know To Love Him',
'If I Were ARich Man',
'Somewhere',
'Tonight'.
Songs without Words Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440652S For String Quartet....(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440652S
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Arranged by Paul Salerni.
Romantic. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2014. 12 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40652S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440652S).
UPC:
680160634002. 9 x 12
inches.
Salerni,
whose recent works
include two one-act
operas (Tony Caruso's
Final Broadcast and The
Life and Love of Joe
Coogan), turns to the
piano works of
Mendelssohn and fashions
four beautiful string
quartet arrangements.
While Consolations is
lush and languid,
Hunting-Song and Unrest
will require a tight
rhythmic control.
Includes Consolation, Op.
30, No. 3; Hunting-Song,
Op. 19, No. 3; Venetian
Boat-Song No. 1, Op. 19,
No. 6; Unrest, Op. 30,
No. 2.
Songs without Words Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144406520 For String Quartet....(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144406520
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Arranged by Paul Salerni.
Romantic. Set of Score
and Parts. With Standard
notation. Composed 2014.
12+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40652. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.144406520).
UPC:
680160633982. 9 x 12
inches.
Salerni,
whose recent works
include two one-act
operas (Tony Caruso's
Final Broadcast and The
Life and Love of Joe
Coogan), turns to the
piano works of
Mendelssohn and fashions
four beautiful string
quartet arrangements.
While Consolations is
lush and languid,
Hunting-Song and Unrest
will require a tight
rhythmic control.
Includes Consolation, Op.
30, No. 3; Hunting-Song,
Op. 19, No. 3; Venetian
Boat-Song No. 1, Op. 19,
No. 6; Unrest, Op. 30,
No. 2.
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.14037707 Parts. Composed by Kevin V...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.14037707
Parts. Composed by
Kevin Volans. Music Sales
America. Contemporary.
Softcover. Composed 2010.
80 pages. Chester Music
#CH7452501. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14037707).
ISBN
9781849385916. UPC:
884088578626.
8.25x11.75x0.262
inches.
Kevin
Volans' String Quartet
No. 9: Shiva Dances was
commissioned by BBC Radio
3 and first performed by
the Smith Quartet at the
2004 Huddersfield
Contemporary Music
Festival.
Kevin
Volans (the composer)
notes on the
piece: In the past
I have been interested in
trying to go beyond
historicism (1970s),
beyond style(1980s) and
beyond form (1990s) in my
work. Looking back over
the music of the
twentiethcentury I was
struck by the fact the
nearlyall of it is
extremely 'busy', almost
cluttered. Italmost
seemed that composers
felt compelled to look
industrious. In the new
millennium Ithought it
would be interesting to
try and eliminate
content. I also aspired
to movingfrommusic (sound
as art) to art (art as
sound). This, of course,
has already been done by
a numberof composers
(many from New York -
Phil Niblock and La Monte
Young, to name but two),
butit was something I had
never tried.AlthoughI
found it annoying that
the label 'minimalist'
was given to my
African-based work,and
fearing this would make
the label stick, I set
out to write a piece
which reflected my loveof
minimal painting and
architecture. The
Japanesehave a term
'wabi' meaning
'voluntarypoverty' or
'emptiness' to describe
their restrained minimal
aesthetic, an aesthetic
which,however, pays
greatest attention to the
quality of material and
fine detail. I like to
think thatthelack of
excessive pitch material
in this piece reflects a
kind of voluntary
poverty.When Shiva is
portrayed dancing (as
Nataraj) He is depicted
in a circle of flames
crushing asmall figure -
the ego - underfoot.You
get theimpression He
dances on the spot, not
movingaround at all. I
like that. The piece
is dedicated to Pablo
Pascual
Cilleruelo.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14036314 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales Americ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14036314
Composed
by Hugh Wood. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Studyscore. Composed
2001. 40 pages. Chester
Music #CH63745. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14036314).
ISBN
9781844491728.
Comm
issioned by the Lyndsay
Quartet in 2000 to
celebrate the opening of
an arts studio in
Sheffield, with the
premiere on 5th October
2001. Wood's 5th quartet
pays respects to the
Classical heritage of the
form, returning to the
use of discrete
movements, two of which
reveal the composer's
love and fascination of
the scherzo. Includes a
foreword and description
by the composer.