String Quartet Violin

SKU: PE.EP71899

Composed by James Dillon. String Quartets. Peters Contemporary Library. Book. 36 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP71899. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP71899).

ISBN 9790577004402. English.

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String Quartet

SKU: HL.14008374

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 24 pages. Chester Music #CH68629. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008374).

ISBN 9781846096150. UPC: 884088435202. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches.

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004, with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than its predecessor, an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560, now in Vienna), which had been the inspiration for my sixth Strathclyde Concerto, for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination, but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of the work. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog, bind the devil with a cord, truss, wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks, guess whom I shall choose, courting, odds and evens. The single movement juxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture, taking liberties which would never be present in, for instance, Brunelleschi architectural drawings, so here, with a constant sequence of transformation processes, I have distorted the neat, precise implications of modal progression, expressed in the unison opening phrase (from F to B through A sharp/B flat), so that the ear is led, en route, into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that I was reading into, and behind the games, adult motives and implications, concerning aggression and war, with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B progression underlying the whole construction derives from a passage in the development of the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony, and the opening of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet. However, unlike in these models, here a real - if temporary - sense of resolution occurs at the close of the quartet: as when the curtain falls on the reconciled Count and Countess in 'Figaro' one wonders how long the F/B truce will hold, and games break out again. The quartet is dedicated to Giuseppe Rebecchini, Roman architect, and friend since the nineteen-fifties.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14022647

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 24 pages. Chester Music #CH69135. Published by Chester Music (HL.14022647).

ISBN 9781846098611. 5.5x7.5x0.101 inches.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the fifth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 20th October 2004 at the Wigmore Hall, London by the Maggini Quartet.

Quodlibet for String Quartet. By Peter Schickele. String quartet. For Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello. First performed by the Armadillo Quartet, as an encore at the end of a concert of Schickele's chamber music in Los Anggeles on March 17. 1997. Score and parts. Composed 1997. 4 pages. Duration 4:30. Published by Theodore Presser Company.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14020979

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2005. 32 pages. Chester Music #CH67045. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020979).

ISBN 9781846091193. UPC: 884088435172. 5.5x7.5x0.125 inches.

The third in the series of ten Quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2003 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of the score intended for study. Performance parts are available available: CH67045-01.

String Quartet (String Quartet)

SKU: HL.14020977

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 32 pages. Chester Music #CH65648. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020977).

ISBN 9781844498024. 5.5x7.5x0.127 inches.

The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of the score intended for study. Performance parts are available available: CH65648-01.

String Instruments, String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14008384

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 36 pages. Chester Music #CH69839. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008384).

ISBN 9781847723970. 8.25x11.75x0.149 inches.

The complete String Quartet score for Maxwell Davies' Quartet No.6. This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the sixth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 26th April 2005 at the Purcell Room, London by the Maggini Quartet.

(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

(String Quartet)

SKU: HL.14021029

Music Sales America. 37 pages. Chester Music #CH7104901. Published by Chester Music (HL.14021029).

UPC: 884088492342. 8.25x11.75x0.215 inches.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet, at St. Gregory's Centre, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, as part of the Sounds New Festival. Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-). Music Sales America. Softcover. Chester Music #CH72809. Published by Chester Music (HL.14037517).