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
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
String Quartet SKU: PR.16400222S Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (stu...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
PR.16400222S
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Full
score (study). With
Standard notation.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00222S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400222S).
UPC:
680160037841.
This
work follows my Quartet
No. 1 by five years. In
terms of style and
aesthetic aim, however,
it seems light years
away. Where the first
work, a 28-minute,
four-movement piece, took
aim at cosmic conflicts
and heroic resolutions,
the present work is
intended as a kind of
divertissment. Harbor
Music lasts a mere eleven
minutes, is cast in a
single movement with six
sections, and should
leave both performers and
listeners with a feeling
of good humor and
affection. The
title comes from my
experience as a guest in
the magnificent city of
Sydney, Australia. One of
its most attractive
features is its unique
system of ferry boats:
the city is laid out
around a large,
multi-channeled harbor,
with destinations more
easily approached by
water than by land.
Consequently, inhabitants
of Sydney get around on
small, people-friendly
boats that come and go
from the central docks at
Circular Quay. During a
week's visit in 1991, I
must have boarded these
boats at least a dozen
times, always bound for a
new location - the resort
town of Manley, or the
Zoo at Taronga Park, or
the shopping district at
Darling Harbour.
In casting about for a
form for my second string
quartet, a kind of loose
rondo came to mind. Each
new destination would be
approached from the same
starting-out point
(although there are
subtle variations in the
repeating theme; it's
always in a new key, and
the texture is never the
same). The result, I
hope, is a sense of
constant new information
presented with
introductory frames of a
more familiar nature.
The embarkation
theme, which begins the
piece, is a sort of
bi-tonal fanfare in which
the violins are in G
major and the viola and
cello are in B-flat
major. It is bold, eager,
and forward-looking. The
first voyage maintains
this bi-tonality,
beginning as a 9/8 due
for second violin and
viola in a kind of
rocking motion -much as a
boat produces when
reaching the deeper water
in the harbor. A sweet,
nostalgic theme emerges
over this rocking
accompaniment. This music
is developed somewhat,
then transforms quickly
into a much faster and
lighter episode, filled
with rising and falling
scales (again, in
differing keys). A
scherzando interlude in
short notes and changing
meters provides contrast,
and the episode ends with
a reprise of the scales.
The second
embarkation follows, this
time in A major/C major.
It leads quickly into a
very warm and slow theme,
in wide-leaping intervals
for the viola. This
section is interrupted
twice by solo cadenzas
for the cello, suggesting
distant boat-horns in
major thirds. The end of
the episode becomes a
transition, with
boat-horns leading into
the final appearance of
the embarkation music,
this time in trills and
tremolos instead of
sharply accented chords.
The nostalgic theme of
the first episode makes a
final appearance, serving
now as a coda. The
rocking motion continues,
in a lullaby fashion,
leaving us drowsy and
satisfied on our homeward
journey. Harbor
Music was written for the
Cavani Quartet, and is
dedicated to Richard J.
Bogomolny. Commissioned
by his employees at First
National Supermarkets as
a gift, it represents a
thank you from many of
the people (including
this composer) who have
benefitted from his
vision and generosity. An
ardent advocate of
chamber music (and a
cellist himself), Mr.
Bogomolny has for many
years been Chairman of
the Board of Chamber
Music America. -- Dan
Welcher.
Full Score SKU: HL.367873 Full Score. Composed by Donald Crockett....(+)
Full Score
SKU:
HL.367873
Full
Score. Composed by
Donald Crockett. LKM
Music. Softcover. Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
#X054076. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing (HL.367873).
ISBN 9781705140291.
UPC: 840126966657.
9.0x12.0x0.655
inches.
Commissione
d by Caramoor Music
Festival in New York and
premiered July 14, 2017
by the Argus Quartet,
this work is in no small
part a response to this
quartet's sense of
adventure and expressive
emotional range. Inspired
by two
end-of-civilization
novels the composer was
reading prior to
composing the work, the
quartet unfolds in a
single movement, loosely
based on plot lines in
both novels. One of the
novels includes a
Traveling Symphony, an
assortment of musicians
and actors who travel the
countryside for decades
playing symphonies, jazz
and orchestral
arrangements of popular
music alongside
performances of
Shakespeare plays,
reminiscent of medieval
troupes traveling the
countryside in
plague-ridden times. The
work is written so that
the quartet embodies the
Traveling Symphony, not
only playing music but
also singing and 'stage
whispering' fragments of
King Lear and other text
across the collection of
nine scenes.
Score and Parts SKU: HL.367874 Score and Parts. Composed by Donald...(+)
Score and Parts
SKU:
HL.367874
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Donald Crockett. LKM
Music. Softcover. Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
#X504092. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing (HL.367874).
ISBN 9781705140307.
UPC: 840126966664.
9.0x12.0x0.523
inches.
Commissione
d by Caramoor Music
Festival in New York and
premiered July 14, 2017
by the Argus Quartet,
this work is in no small
part a response to this
quartet's sense of
adventure and expressive
emotional range. Inspired
by two
end-of-civilization
novels the composer was
reading prior to
composing the work, the
quartet unfolds in a
single movement, loosely
based on plot lines in
both novels. One of the
novels includes a
Traveling Symphony, an
assortment of musicians
and actors who travel the
countryside for decades
playing symphonies, jazz
and orchestral
arrangements of popular
music alongside
performances of
Shakespeare plays,
reminiscent of medieval
troupes traveling the
countryside in
plague-ridden times. The
work is written so that
the quartet embodies the
Traveling Symphony, not
only playing music but
also singing and 'stage
whispering' fragments of
King Lear and other text
across the collection of
nine scenes.