Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Con te partirò Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1185968-070 (Time to Say Goo...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1185968-070
(Time to Say
Goodbye). Composed by
Francesco Sartori.
Arranged by Anthony
Gröger. De Haske Pops
for String Quartet. Pop
and Rock. Set (Score and
Parts). Composed 2019. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1185968-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1185968-070).
ISBN 9789043156707.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Con te
partirò, which
also became famous under
the title Time to Say
Goodbye, has burned
itself into the
collective musical
consciousness above all
in the interpretation by
the blind Italian tenor,
Andrea Bocelli. In the
1990s this song raced up
the singles charts and
has since become almost
indispensable at farewell
celebrations, especially
in the world of sports.
Thanks to Anthony
Grögersâ?? expressive
arrangement, string
quartets now have the
opportunity to let this
wonderful song ring out
on suitable occasions,
guaranteed to awaken the
emotionsâ?¦
C
on te partirò, ook
bekend onder de titel
Time to Say
Goodbye, heeft in de
versie van de blinde
Italiaanse tenor Andrea
Bocelli een plek in ons
collectieve muzikale
geheugen veroverd. In de
jaren negentig van de
vorige eeuw bestormde het
nummer de hitlijsten, en
sindsdien is het bij
afscheidsceremonies, met
name in de sportwereld,
nauwelijks nog weg te
denken. Dankzij Anthony
Grögers expressieve
bewerking hebben
strijkkwartetten nu ook
de mogelijkheid om dit
prachtige lied bij
passende gelegenheden ten
gehore te brengen en
daarmee ongetwijfeld een
gevoelige snaar te
raken.
Con te
partirò, auch
unter dem Titel Time
to Say Goodbye
berühmt geworden, hat
sich vor allem in der
Interpretation durch den
blinden italienischen
Tenor Andrea Bocelli in
das kollektive
Musikgedächtnis
eingebrannt. In den
neunziger Jahren des 20.
Jahrhunderts stürmte
der Titel die
Single-Charts und ist
seitdem bei groÃ?en
Abschiedsveranstaltungen,
insbesondere im Sport,
kaum noch wegzudenken.
Dank Anthony Grögers
ausdrucksvollem
Arrangement haben nun
auch
Streichquartett-Formation
en die Möglichkeit,
bei passenden Anlässen
das wunderschöne Lied
erklingen zu lassen. Da
sind die Emotionen
garantiert
â?¦
Haydn Quartets Score and Parts. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-17...(+)
Haydn Quartets Score and
Parts. Composed by
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791).
Edited by Wolf-Dieter
Seiffert. Sheet music.
Henle
Music Folios. Classical.
Softcover. G. Henle
#HN1122.
Published by G. Henle
The Music of the Night Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1185855-070 From The Phantom...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1185855-070
From The Phantom of
the Opera. Composed
by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske Pops for String
Quartet.
TV-Film-Musical-Show. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2018. 8 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1185855-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1185855-070).
ISBN 9789043153911.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
The Phantom
of the Opera is,
without doubt, one of the
great classics of our
time. The stage
production of this tale,
exciting and mysterious
in equal measure, has now
captivated over a million
theatre-goers. The
phantom sings the song
The Music of the
Night to the
beautiful Christine, who
he has just kidnapped
into his realm, as if
entrancing her. This
enchanting mood is so
authentically recreated
in Nico Dezaire’s
sensitive arrangement for
string quartet that it
feels like listening to
the singer perform the
original version from the
musical.
De
musical The Phantom of
the Opera is zonder
twijfel een van de grote
klassiekers van onze
tijd. De theaterversie
van dit spannende en
tegelijk mysterieuze
verhaal heeft in de loop
der tijd al een
miljoenenpubliek
getrokken. Met het lied
The Music of the
Night brengt het
spook de mooie Christine,
die hij zojuist naar zijn
rijk heeft ontvoerd, als
het ware in trance. De
betoverende sfeer wordt
in dit gevoelige
strijkkwartetarrangement
van de hand van Nico
Dezaire zo authentiek
overgebracht, dat het
voelt alsof je luistert
naar de zanger in de
originele versie uit de
musical.
Das
Phantom der Oper
gehört zweifellos zu
den ganz großen
Musical-Klassikern
unserer Zeit. Die
Bühnenversion dieser
ebenso spannenden wie
mystischen Geschichte hat
schon ein
Millionenpublikum in
seinen Bann gezogen. Mit
dem Lied The Music of
the Night singt das
Phantom die schöne
Christine, die er soeben
in sein Reich entführt
hat, gleichsam in Trance.
Eben diese Stimmung
lässt Nico Dezaire in
seiner einfühlsamen
Bearbeitung für
Streichquartett so
glaubwürdig wieder
aufleben, dass es sich so
anfühlt, als höre
man dem Sänger der
originalen
Musical-Fassung
zu.
No Time To Die Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1216383-070 As Performed by ...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1216383-070
As Performed by Billie
Eilish. Composed by
Billie Eilish, Finneas
O'Connell. Arranged by
Anthony Gröger. De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet.
TV-Film-Musical-Show. Set
(Score and Parts).
Composed 2021. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1216383-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1216383-070).
When I'm Sixty-Four Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Facile De Haske Publications
As performed by The Beatles. Composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arran...(+)
As performed by The
Beatles.
Composed by John Lennon
and
Paul McCartney. Arranged
by
Nico Dezaire. De Haske
Pops
for String Quartet. Pop
and
Rock. Set (Score and
Parts).
Composed 2020. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1206259-
070. Published by De
Haske
Publications
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Boosey and Hawkes
(Study Score). By Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Edited by Peter Bartok. For String Qu...(+)
(Study Score). By Bela
Bartok (1881-1945).
Edited by Peter Bartok.
For String Quartet (Study
Score). Boosey and Hawkes
Scores/Books. Softcover.
96 pages. Universal
Edition #UE34311.
Published by Universal
Edition
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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