String Quartet or String Orchestra - easy SKU: BT.DHP-1135315-070 Arrange...(+)
String Quartet or String
Orchestra - easy
SKU:
BT.DHP-1135315-070
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske String Orchestra
Series. Set (Score and
Parts). De Haske
Publications #DHP
1135315-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1135315-070).
ISBN 9789043146814.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
String Quartet SKU: HL.49047454 Score and Parts. Composed by Julia...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.49047454
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Julian Anderson.
String Ensemble. Chamber,
Classical. Softcover. 148
pages. Duration 1380
seconds. Schott Music
#ED13989. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047454).
UPC:
842819101086.
9.0x12.0x0.358
inches.
My 3rd
String Quartet is in six
contrasted movements.
Certain musical figures
recur across the work,
but there are few themes
as such. The main
emphasis is on contrast
of mood, texture,
harmony, pacing and
timing. Unlike many of my
works this quartet had no
extra-musical
inspiration, and in
principle should have no
subtitle. Certain
features already present
in my music became more
prominent in this new
work: modes (limited
collections of pitches)
have always helped me to
focus musical character,
but here a sense of key
note for each mode became
much more pronounced, as
did the difference
between modes for each
section of the work. A
sort of hybrid key-system
emerged (even with
equivalents of major and
minor) which is not
normal tonality, nor does
it aim to imitate it.
Unlike tonality this
key-system includes
noises, extended
performance techniques
and intervals outside
Western tuning as
available resources. What
I hope it does is to
focus the listening
experience onto different
musical areas, to
encourage a sense of both
modulation from one area
to another and to give
the music a sense of
goal. No conscious
knowledge of this is
needed when listening:
the music should
communicate directly on
its own. Here, then, is
this collection of six
musical colours, related
and unrelated, different
yet belonging together,
variable yet in a set
order. Hence the
subtitle, chosen both for
both its sound and its
sense: 'hana no hanataba'
meaning, in Japanese,
'bouquet of flowers'. A
brief description: 1)
Moderately fast. Short
droplets of sounds gather
increasing momentum. 2)
Very fast. Canons and
bells at different
speeds. 3) Very slow -
fast - very slow - very
fast - very slow. The
main slow movement and
its main scherzo. An
emphasis on non-tempered
tunings and on inhaling
and exhaling waves of
sound. The slow sections
feature florid melodic
writing. In the exuberant
scherzo competing duos
and trios create
imaginary folk music. 4)
Extremely fast/extremely
slow. Open strings and
harmonics fuse into a
single string instrument
- like a sort of large
resonating Medieval
tromba marina. 5) Very
fast. A variation on
movement 2). Variation,
Schoenberg told Cage, is
just a sort of repetition
'with some things changed
and others not.' 6) Slow
- Very Fast - Fast -
Slow. The opening calm
harmonies and florid
melodies evoke movement
3) in different music.
The fast part features
one overt theme: a
fanfare-like call to
attention which is
subject to extensive
development. There is
much use of non-Western
tuning. At its climax the
music freezes into a
frieze - a wall of sound
standing in front of the
audience with increasing
obstinacy and certainty
as the work grinds
towards its cadence.
String quartet (V1) - intermediate to advanced SKU: HL.49006698 Origin...(+)
String quartet (V1) -
intermediate to advanced
SKU: HL.49006698
Original movement from
300 hundred years
ago. Edited by Helmut
W. May. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Individual
part. 24 pages. Schott
Music #ED 6838-11.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49006698).
ISBN
9790001072434.
9.0x12.0x0.068
inches.
Den
wachsenden Trend zur
Kammermusik vor allem
junger Spieler kommt
diese Sammlung einzelner
leichter Quartettsatze
aus Vorklassik, Klassik,
Romantik und neuerer
Musik entgegen. Partitur
und Stimmen enthalten
Spielhilfen. Eine
nutzliche Ausgabe fur den
Kammermusikunterricht.
By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Rowland-Jones. For violin 1, violin 2, viola, v...(+)
By Franz Joseph Haydn.
Edited by Rowland-Jones.
For violin 1, violin 2,
viola, violoncello. Op.
20 Nos. 1-6 (Hoboken III:
31-36) (urtext)(score and
parts). Published by C.F.
Peters.
Set
(Score & Parts). 106
pages. Bote & Bock
#BB3474. Published by
Bote & Bock (BT.BB3474).
ISBN
9783793141716.
F
or Isang
Yun, String
Quartet No. 3 from 1959
marked the beginning of
his European creative
phase and of his official
canon of works. Now it is
possible to encounter
Yun's early works from
his Korean period inthe
form of his String
Quartet No. 1
(1955). Three important
10-minute movements
containing references not
only to Asia but also to
Ravel, Bartók and
Eastern European folk
music and having an
idiosyncraticstructure:
Yun lines up forms and
figures, makes them
emerge from each other in
a contrasting manner and
assembles them into a
mosaic-like whole,
seeking for integration,
laying down his material
in layer upon layer and
endingthemovements with a
rhythmic unison.
[…] Even then, he
probably regarded a work
of art as an energetic
stream of sounds and as a
reflection of a world
whose diverging parts
weave into a harmonic
whole.
(Walter-WolfgangSparrer)<
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String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743.
Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
music resources there and
then..
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.29120020 For String Quartet. Composed by To...(+)
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.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14031816 Composed by Jean Joubert. Music Sales Ame...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14031816
Composed
by Jean Joubert. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV12053901.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14031816).
8.5x11.75x0.3
inches.
Though
conceived as four
separate movements, my
second string quartet has
a single motif which is
common to them all. This
is the three-note Muss es
sein? from Beethoven's
last quartet, Op. 135.
But whereas Beethoven's
theme is notated G E A
flat, thus giving it an F
minor connotation, I have
sued an alternative
spelling - G E G sharp -
which suggests an
ambiguous E minor-major.
This ambiguity, in fact,
becomes the tonal basis
of the whole work, only
to be resolved at the end
of the final movement.
Each movement begins with
a variant of the basic
motif on the cello. The
first has the original
form of the theme, while
the second has a
majorised version which
is also expressed as a
chord. The third
movement, with its
scherzoid middle section,
reverts to the
major-minor ambiguity of
the first, and the finale
begins with the majorised
version as an ostinato
accompaniment on
pizzicato cello. The slow
movement is sub-titled In
memoriam DSCH and
concludes with a
quotation of
Shostakovich's motto - D
E flat C B - which is
basically the same as
Beethoven's with the
addition of one note.
This is not to imply that
the work contains no
other thematic material.
One important theme, a
rising fifth and a
second, is also common to
three of the movements,
and is ultimately derived
from my first quartet,
Op. 1 of 27 years
earlier, to which this
second contribution to
the form is in many ways
like a sequel. Like the
earlier work, too, this
quartet is dedicated to
my wife.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440385S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440385S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40385S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440385S).
UPC:
680160029907.
A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell. Both
of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.
The piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption -
slow/fast/slow/fast -
with the first and third
sections alternating
declamatory and calmer
gestures, and the second
and fourth being, in
effect, almost variants
of each other. Quartet
No. 4 is approximately 20
minutes in duration and
each movement, as noted,
was written in memory of
dear friends who passed
away during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work was
completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New York.
--Sydney Hodkinson. A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell.Â
Both of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.The
piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption –
slow/fast/slow/fast
– with the first
and third sections
alternating declamatory
and calmer gestures, and
the second and fourth
being, in effect, almost
variants of each
other.Quartet No. 4 is
approximately 20 minutes
in duration and each
movement, as noted, was
written in memory of dear
friends who passed away
during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work
was completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New
York.—Sydney
Hodkinson.