Mere Droplets Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Schott
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.49047250 Very S...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49047250
Very Small Pieces for
String Quartet Score and
Parts. Composed by
Theodor Kirchner. Edited
by Wolfgang Birtel.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. 48
pages. Schott Music
#SE1059. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047250).
UPC:
196288175179.
The
composer Theodor Kirchner
(1823-1903), a friend of
Johannes Brahms, devoted
his work almost
exclusively to piano and
chamber music as well as
lieder. Among his
numerous works are also
collections pieces of
easy difficulty or with
easy educational demands.
They include the
“very small pieces
for string quartetâ€
(without opus number).
These pieces are seven
miniatures of varying
character, from cantabile
to lively. Since they
are, for the most part,
technically easy to
master, they offer the
opportunity to practise
chamber music ensemble
playing: listening to
each other, responding,
coming in together,
taking over and other
challenges of the string
quartet. Quartet sound
itself can also be
trained with the pieces -
the ideal preparation for
auditions and
competitions.
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SKU: HL.50603924 Score and Parts. Composed by Peter Dickinson. Str...(+)
SKU: HL.50603924
Score and Parts.
Composed by Peter
Dickinson. String.
Softcover. 64 pages.
Duration 600 seconds.
Novello & Co Ltd.
#NOV100474. Published by
Novello & Co Ltd.
(HL.50603924).
ISBN
9781705157718. UPC:
196288032458. 9.0x12.0
inches.
The
composer writes: These
three pieces are based on
movements from my Mass of
the Apocalypse,
commissioned for the
300th anniversary of St
James' Church, Piccadilly
and recorded by the St
James' Singers/Ivor
Bolton. They are
dedicated to Peter
Sheppard Sk''rved and the
Kreutzer Quartet in
gratitude for their
outstanding CD of my
chamber music released
early in 2020. They gave
the first performance of
the Three Pieces, which
was filmed and streamed
in November 2020, but the
live premiere was given
by the Gildas Quartet in
the William Alwyn
Festival at Southwold
Church on 8 October
2021..
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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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Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. Spiral-bound.
Set of parts. Greenblatt
& Seay #BSG4PROMAR-P.
Published by Greenblatt &
Seay (GS.BSG4PROMAR-P).
8.5 x 11
inches.
30
energetic pieces to get
your audience motivated,
and their toes tapping.
All four parts share the
interesting melodic bits,
and the relentless
rhythms that provide the
energy to forge ahead.
You will enjoy sharing
some old favorites, like
Mendelssohn's Wedding
March, Wagner's Bridal
March, and for you Alfred
Hitchcock fans, Gounod's
Funeral March of a
Marionette. This
collection also includes
works by Sousa, Frederick
II, Joplin, Mozart,
Schubert, etc.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9260 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Cha...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9260
Composed
by Manuela Kerer. Chamber
music; Folder. Edition
Breitkopf.
World
premiere: Stockholm
(Festival O/MODERNT),
June 19, 2017
Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Set of
parts. Composed 2016/17.
32 pages. Duration 15' -
18'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9260.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9260).
ISBN 9790004185605. 9
x 12 inches.
When
Hugo Ticciati asked me to
write a new piece for his
quartet, I was
immediately enthusiastic
about this project. I
love how Hugo and his
O/MODERNT String Quartet
unite old and new music
in a completely natural
way. So, I was absolutely
excited about Hugo`s idea
of having my piece based
on two of my idols, Bach
and Beethoven,
deconstructing the one
and constructing the
other. With all my
respect for these great
composers I gave to the
piece a very personal
inner part consisting of
my own music that
influenced and inspired
the other parts. For the
whole piece I felt very
close to Beethoven, who
said: To make a fugue is
not art, which [is
something] I have made
dozens of times in my
study. But the
imagination will assert
its rights and must come
today, in light of the
old traditional form, to
another truly poetic
element. De/Con is a
travel into different
centuries with different
sound-languages. For me,
it was like having a
wonderful constructive
discussion with Johann
Sebastian Bach and Ludwig
van Beethoven, each of us
trying to speak our own
language, approaching the
others step by step. The
piece could be defined as
a Love Letter to two of
the greatest composers
ever. De/Con could be
preceded by (parts of)
Johann Sebastian Bach's
Die Kunst der Fuge (The
Art of the Fugue) and
succeeded by Ludwig van
Beethoven's Grosse Fuge
(Great Fugue). Ideally,
then, all parts should be
played attacca. It could,
but it hasn't to be
played with these two
pieces. (Manuela
Kerer)
World
premiere: Stockholm
(Festival O/MODERNT),
June 19, 2017.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9259 Composed by Manuela Kerer. Cha...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9259
Composed
by Manuela Kerer. Chamber
music; stapled. Edition
Breitkopf.
World
premiere: Stockholm
(Festival O/MODERNT),
June 19, 2017
Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Full score.
Composed 2016/17. 32
pages. Duration 15' -
18'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9259.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9259).
ISBN 9790004185599. 9
x 12 inches.
When
Hugo Ticciati asked me to
write a new piece for his
quartet, I was
immediately enthusiastic
about this project. I
love how Hugo and his
O/MODERNT String Quartet
unite old and new music
in a completely natural
way. So, I was absolutely
excited about Hugo`s idea
of having my piece based
on two of my idols, Bach
and Beethoven,
deconstructing the one
and constructing the
other. With all my
respect for these great
composers I gave to the
piece a very personal
inner part consisting of
my own music that
influenced and inspired
the other parts. For the
whole piece I felt very
close to Beethoven, who
said: To make a fugue is
not art, which [is
something] I have made
dozens of times in my
study. But the
imagination will assert
its rights and must come
today, in light of the
old traditional form, to
another truly poetic
element. De/Con is a
travel into different
centuries with different
sound-languages. For me,
it was like having a
wonderful constructive
discussion with Johann
Sebastian Bach and Ludwig
van Beethoven, each of us
trying to speak our own
language, approaching the
others step by step. The
piece could be defined as
a Love Letter to two of
the greatest composers
ever. De/Con could be
preceded by (parts of)
Johann Sebastian Bach's
Die Kunst der Fuge (The
Art of the Fugue) and
succeeded by Ludwig van
Beethoven's Grosse Fuge
(Great Fugue). Ideally,
then, all parts should be
played attacca. It could,
but it hasn't to be
played with these two
pieces. (Manuela
Kerer)
World
premiere: Stockholm
(Festival O/MODERNT),
June 19, 2017.
String Quartet
Score. Composed by
Shin-Ichiro Ikebe. String
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 28 pages.
Duration 600 seconds.
Zen-On #ZN590228.
Published by Zen-On
(HL.49045762).
ISBN
9784115902282.
8.25x11.75x0.1
inches.
This is the
eleventh work in my
chamber music series,
STRATA, and my fourth
string quartet following
STRATA I, V, and IX. This
series started in 1988
based on the idea of
regarding registers as
strata (the plural form
of stratum), from which
the title in derived.
While I continue to write
pieces, however, the
initial concept changed
in various aspects. This
time, I returned to the
original idea To put it
simply, I restarted from
STRATA I. I used the same
instruments and stared at
strara created by the
four string parts. That
became the act of
composing STRATA XI. The
work doesn't have
'development' in the
general sense but
represents a panorama of
strata. It consists of
four movements
(fast-slow-fast-slow). In
fact, before writing the
STRATA series, I wrote a
long string quartet when
I was a student, but I
didn't include it in my
list of works. Anyway,
the thought of writing
string quartet has never
disappeared from me. It
alays weighs heavily on
my mind. Shin-Ichiro
Ikebe.
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String quartet (String Quartet) - difficult SKU: HL.49018716 Three Sma...(+)
String quartet (String
Quartet) - difficult
SKU: HL.49018716
Three Small Pieces for
String Quartet.
Composed by Richard
Ayres. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String Ensemble.
Score and parts. Composed
2003. 92 pages. Duration
12'. Schott Music
#ED13252. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49018716).
ISBN
9790220132339.
9.25x12.0x0.3
inches.
Richard
Ayres' Three Small Pieces
for String Quartet each
have distinct characters
that illustrate the
composer's vivid
imagination and skill for
combining energetic,
touching and sometimes
wild music. The first
piece is a short tribute
to the Romanian singer
Maria Tanase, a long
forgotten performer who
was once a star in her
country. The second is a
rough, fast and folk-like
section in 11/16 time and
the third, subtitled
'Countess Eva von Spendu
(on a horse) gallops
through the forest
(pausing four times to
contemplate natural
splendour)', contains (in
the words of the
composer) 'hunting
gallops, a Feldmanesque
19 bar blues, some
devilish fiddling,
moments of repose and
contemplation, and a
lyrical finale.'.
Quartet Sant Petersburg Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
String quartet SKU: BO.B.3664 Composed by Jordi Cervello. Published by Ed...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
BO.B.3664
Composed by
Jordi Cervello. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3664).
Cuarteto San
Petersburgo (The Saint
Petersburg Quartet) was
written between January
and March 2011. It owes
its name to the fact that
Saint Petersburg has been
a very significant city
for me. I was invited
there in 1988 to take
part in a big
contemporary music
festival, but my
uninterrupted bond with
the city started on 2002,
thanks to the
negotiations of my friend
and pupil Albert Barbeta.
Since then, I have
constantly travelled
there in order to record
a considerable part of my
repertoire: seventeen
pieces. In addition to
the concerts we went to,
I took the opportunity
during my trips to visit
the well-known
conservatoire where so
many great personalities
from the world of music
composition once taught,
and the place that
launched the most
important violin school
in the whole of Russia:
the school of Leopoldo
Auer. Spending a long
time in Auer's classroom
writing my concert for
violin and orchestra was
an unforgettable
experience for me. His
large portrait motivated
me even
further.
Cuartet
o San Petersburgo evokes
many of the most
cherished and moving
moments that I have had
in this city. It is
structured in four
movements. The first one,
Allegretto-Allegro, opens
with an introduction that
sets forth the two main
themes, amid a soft and
elastic atmosphere. The
Allegro starts vigorously
and in it we find changes
in the tempo and moments
of mystery, as well as
certain seclusion,
returning then to the
emphatic theme where the
counterpoint finds its
place. The movement ends
placidly.
The
Scherzo-marcato that
follows is marked by a
persistent rhythm of
triplets that carries on
from beginning to end.
The tempo does not
change, but brief and
decided themes are
introduced, as well as
passages of counterpoint.
Brief and dissonant
chords are heard
throughout the movement,
which ends
vigorously.
The
third movement, Ut, is a
very special one. For a
while already I had been
playing with the idea of
writing a movement that
was to have the tonality
C as a leitmotiv. This
one is made up by two
slow and static parts. In
the first one, the first
violin plays
pizzicatti-glissandi. In
the second, the first
violin and particularly
the violoncello settle on
C while the other two
instruments produce
descending chromatic
harmonies.
Final
ly, the
Introduccion-Presto (the
Introduction-Presto). It
starts with some bucolic
passages which remind us
of the introduction to
the first movement. A
fast and energetic Presto
suddenly erupts. A kind
of moto perpetuo which
alternates with two
expressive passages and,
towards the end, a viola
and violoncello tremolo,
all of great mystery and
expectation, make way for
a resounding finale
marcato.