String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144402180 After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144402180
After
Zurbarán. Composed
by James Primosch. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
20+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 18 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40218.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.144402180).
UPC:
680160027156. 9.5 x 13
inches.
The
concerts and exhibits of
the Cleveland Museum of
Art were an important
formative influence for
me during my student
days. So when the
invitation came to create
a new work celebrating
this institution on its
seventy-fifth
anniversary, I was not
only happy to accept, but
knew immediately that I
wanted to write a piece
that would somehow relate
specifically to the
museum. I decided to make
the work a reflection on
a painting in the
museum's collection:
Zurbaran's The Holy House
of Nazareth. My quartet
is not program music in a
narrative sense, but
rather a kind of
meditation that takes its
tone from this painting's
remarkable integration of
intense affect,
mysterious repose and
secret geometry. Besides
Zurbaran's painting, the
piece is occupied with a
purely musical object of
contemplation: the hymn
tune Picardy, best known
with the text Let All
Mortal Flesh Keep
Silence. This tune
permeates the harmonic
and melodic life of the
quartet, sometimes
appearing in a very
simple, straightforward
fashion, but often hidden
amidst more complex
structures. I was
attracted to the melody
for its musical
qualities, but later
realized that the hymn's
text also resonates with
the mood of the painting;
the words speak of a
reverent awe, of cherubim
with sleepless eye, and
of the mystery of the
Incarnate Word who must
suffer: King of kings,
yet born of Mary...
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440218S After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440218S
After
Zurbarán. Composed
by James Primosch. Full
score. With Standard
notation. Duration 18
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40218S. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.14440218S).
UPC:
680160027170. 9.5 x 13
inches.
The
concerts and exhibits of
the Cleveland Museum of
Art were an important
formative influence for
me during my student
days. So when the
invitation came to create
a new work celebrating
this institution on its
seventy-fifth
anniversary, I was not
only happy to accept, but
knew immediately that I
wanted to write a piece
that would somehow relate
specifically to the
museum. I decided to make
the work a reflection on
a painting in the
museum's collection:
Zurbaran's The Holy House
of Nazareth. My quartet
is not program music in a
narrative sense, but
rather a kind of
meditation that takes its
tone from this painting's
remarkable integration of
intense affect,
mysterious repose and
secret geometry. Besides
Zurbaran's painting, the
piece is occupied with a
purely musical object of
contemplation: the hymn
tune Picardy, best known
with the text Let All
Mortal Flesh Keep
Silence. This tune
permeates the harmonic
and melodic life of the
quartet, sometimes
appearing in a very
simple, straightforward
fashion, but often hidden
amidst more complex
structures. I was
attracted to the melody
for its musical
qualities, but later
realized that the hymn's
text also resonates with
the mood of the painting;
the words speak of a
reverent awe, of cherubim
with sleepless eye, and
of the mystery of the
Incarnate Word who must
suffer: King of kings,
yet born of Mary...
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.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144401000 Composed by George Perle. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144401000
Composed
by George Perle. Spiral.
Premiere: Forum Group of
the International Society
for Contemporary Music,
in New York City.
Contemporary. Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1946-1948. Opus
21. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40100.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.144401000).
UPC:
680160025589. 11 x 8.5
inches.
George
Perle, now an instructor
at the University of
Louisville, was born in
1915, in Bayonne, New
Jersey. He began work on
the Third String Quartet
in 1946 in Japan and
completed it the
following year in New
York City. It was
presented for the first
time at a concert of the
Forum Group of the
International Society for
Contemporary Music, in
New York City on Feb. 7,
1948. The work is based
on the following
twelve-tone series, and
its permutations and
transpositions: d;
e-flat; a-flat; b; c;
f-sharp; c-sharp;
f-natural; g; a; e;
b-flat. The score is
arranged in the present
publication in such a way
as to render unnecessary
the extraction of parts
for performance. Each
player may read his part
directly from a copy of
the score.
String quartet SKU: HH.HH187-FSP Composed by Vaclav Pichl. Edited by Chri...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH187-FSP
Composed
by Vaclav Pichl. Edited
by Christopher Hogwood.
Two Violins, Viola,
Violoncello. Full score
and parts. Edition HH
Music Publishers
#HH187-FSP. Published by
Edition HH Music
Publishers
(HH.HH187-FSP).
ISBN
9781905779178.
Like
so many of his
compatriots, the Czech
born Vaclav Pichl spent
much of his working life
in Vienna (where the
Empress Maria Theresa,
preferred him to Mozart),
but with a period working
for Dittersdorf (in what
is now Rumania) and
nearly twenty years spent
in Milan. His
compositions were
performed at EszterhA!za
by Haydn, who had a set
of Pichl's new quartets
copied in 1780 (he wrote
over 30 quartets in
all).His compositions
were performed at
EszterhA!za by Haydn, who
had a set of Pichl's new
quartets copied in 1780
(he wrote over 30
quartets in all).
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?
Score and Parts Soprano; String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.48024678 ...(+)
Score and Parts Soprano;
String Quartet (Score &
Parts)
SKU:
HL.48024678
String
Quartet and Soprano Score
and Parts. Composed
by Martin Christoph
Redel. Boosey & Hawkes
Chamber Music. Classical.
Softcover. 104 pages.
Duration 900 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535141.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48024678).
ISBN
9781540058546. UPC:
888680952525.
40
years lie between the
composer's multiple
award-winning String
Quartet No. 2 and this
new contribution to the
genre. Martin Christoph
Redel was motivated by
the world's current
political situation: by
the violation of human
rights, by war, torture,
violence and expulsion.
He includes a soprano
part and responds to
texts of the Tunisia-born
poetess Najet Adouani who
had to flee her home
country several times
herself because she had
advocated human rights
and freedom of speech
there. In my throat nests
the pain of all those to
whom I lend a voice, is
one of her statements
that was set to
music.
Volume 1. For
String Quartet.
Composed by Gene Milford.
This edition: Latham
Music. Quartet; Solo
Small Ensembles; String -
Quartet. LudwigMasters -
Latham Music. Book.
LudwigMasters
Publications
#36-52703614. Published
by LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-52703614).
ISBN
9781581069761. UPC:
654690687517.
English.
This
collection of folk songs
from Latin America
(Mexico, Costa Rica and
Guatemala) are meant to
expand young player's
knowledge of music from
other cultures or give
them pride in the music
of their own heritage.
The music is mostly in
1st position with only
Violin 1 and Violoncello
wandering briefly into
other positions. Players
will use pizzicato and a
variety of bowing
styles.
Naci en la Cumbre (I
was Born on the Mountain)
is a traditional
Guatemalan folk
song.
Vuela,
suspiro (Fly, My Sighs)
is a traditional Costa
Rican folk song.
Ay! Tituy is a
traditional folk song
from Costa Rica.
La Cucaracha (The
Cockroach) is a
traditional Spanish song,
also trendy in Latin
America. It is about a
cockroach who can't walk.
The song came to
symbolize the Mexican
Revolution (1910-20) and
Pancho
Villa.
These products
are currently being
prepared by a new
publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.