String Quartet No.4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire/avancé Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: BT.WH31498 Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Sco...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: BT.WH31498
Composed by Hans
Abrahamsen. Score Only.
Composed 2013. 42 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH31498. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(BT.WH31498).
ISBN
9788759824603.
English.
String
Quartet No.4 was composed
by Hans Abrahamsen in
2012. Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
Arditti Quartet.
Programme note: The basic
idea for my Fourth String
Quartet was very clear to
me: It should be quiet
and soft music or to put
it in a german term: hoch
im Himmel gesungen ...
(â€High singing in
heaven…â€).
Each of the four
movements has a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins
like my work
â€Schneeâ€
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
â€movement and
joyâ€-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longerin
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
â€Dark, heavy and
earthy†is the
third movement and its
pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like
â€babblingâ€
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckyly after
twenty years it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage für Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen.
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Wes...(+)
String Quartet No.4 was
composed by Hans
Abrahamsen in 2012.
Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
ArdittiQuartet. Programme
note: The basic idea for
my Fourth String Quartet
was very clear to me: It
should be quiet and soft
music or to put it in a
german term: hoch im
Himmel gesungen ... (High
singing in heaven). Each
of the four movements has
a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins -
like my work 'Schnee' -
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
movement and joy-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longer in
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
Dark, heavy and earthy is
the third movement and
its pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like babbling
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckiyly after
twenty years - it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage fur Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen
Celestial Harmonies Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Imagine Music
String Quartet SKU: IG.IMF1824 Composed by Daniel Baldwin. Score and Part...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
IG.IMF1824
Composed
by Daniel Baldwin. Score
and Parts. Imagine Music
Publishing #IMF1824.
Published by Imagine
Music Publishing
(IG.IMF1824).
9 x 12
inches.
Written for
my first doctoral
recital, Celestial
Harmonies was a fun
exercise in
experimentation. I
approached another
graduate student, Allen
Morris, about taking high
quality photographs of
each of the
constellations, which he
did between Thanksgiving
and New Year's Eve in
2013. Upon receiving
these photographs, I had
staff paper printed on
transparency paper and
placed the constellation
photos beneath the
transparency paper and
traced out the
constellations on the
staff paper. These became
the introductory sketches
for this new string
quartet. Like a solitary
photographer gazing up at
the night sky, the music
is quiet and intimate,
but reflects the drama
and wonderment of this
wonderous phenomenon.
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.284555 String Quartet. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.284555
String Quartet.
Composed by John Luther
Adams. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2018.
74 pages. Chester Music
#CH87868. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.284555).
UPC:
888680912901. 9x12
inches.
Composers
note:
I never
imagined I would write a
string quartet. Then I
heard the JACK Quartet,
and I understood how I
might be able to make the
medium my own. The result
was The Wind in High
Places - a twenty-minute
work composed entirely on
natural harmonics and
open strings.
Over
the next few years, two
more quartets followed.
The second quartet,
untouched, is a further
exploration of the
aeolian sound world of
the first. Then, in
Canticles of the Sky, the
musicians finally touch
the fingerboards of their
instruments.
And
now comes Everything That
Rises.
This fourth
quartet is more
expansive, both in time
and in space. It grows
out of Sila: The Breath
of the World - a
performance-length
choral/orchestral work
composed on a rising
series of sixteen
harmonic
clouds.
Everything
That Rises traverses this
same territory, but in a
much more melodic
way.
Each musician
is a soloist, playing
throughout. They surround
the audience. Time
floats.
Over the
course of an hour, the
lines spin out - always
rising - in acoustically
perfect intervals that
grow progressively
smaller as they spiral
upward... until the music
dissolves into the soft
noise of the bows,
sighing.