La Caleta: String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire Schott
Set String Quartet (Score & Parts) - intermediate to advanced SKU: HL.4901820...(+)
Set String Quartet (Score
& Parts) - intermediate
to advanced
SKU:
HL.49018208
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Barbara Heller. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Score and
parts. Composed 2008. 24
pages. Duration 13'.
Schott Music #ED20774.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018208).
ISBN
9790001170673. UPC:
884088576493.
9.0x12.0x0.077
inches.
'A coming
and going...' - this is
how Barbara Heller
describes the essence of
her second string quartet
La Caleta ('small bay').
Barbara Heller got the
inspiration to write this
work from the calm,
gentle and constant
movements of the waves at
the beach of a small bay
on the isle of La Gomera.
The quiet, hot day is
reflected in the music:
The slow, calm, almost
quiet music with its open
form should be played and
heard inwardly. The music
comes from nowhere and
disappears into
nothingness like a big
wave. The tonal material,
consisting of wholetone
and semitone steps in
short descending and
ascending movements
produces cluster-like,
floating sounds. An
intense musical
experience, requiring
concentration and peace
of mind.
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-639-9 Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Sco...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-639-9
Composed by Einojuhani
Rautavaara. Score +
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-639-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-639-9).
ISBN
9790550116399.
New
Urtext edition (2020) of
Einojuhani Rautavaara's
String Quartet No. 1 is
based on the composer's
manuscript, incorporating
corrections and comments
by composer's hand in
various sources.
Einojuhani Rautavaara
(1928-2016) was one of
Finland's internationally
most successful
composers. He made his
major breakthrough with
the Seventh Symphony,
Angel of Light, in the
1990s, but his output
includes numerous classic
operas, concertos,
chamber music works and
choral works. Over his
extensive career, he
progressed from
Neo-Classicism to strict
dodecaphony to free-tonal
Neo-Romanticism. His
catalogue of influences
over the decades includes
Orthodox liturgical music
and Finnish fiddlers.
Rautavaara's first string
quartet (1953) is from
his Neo-Classical early
period when he composed
only little chamber
music. Stravinsky and the
Finnish folk music are
present in the rhythmical
first movement; later
enters a characteristic
scale alternating half
and whole steps. After
the Slavic romanticism of
the slow movement Andante
the fiddler is back in
the cheerful Gigue.
String quartet SKU: HH.HH389-FSP Composed by Litha Efthymiou. Two Violins...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH389-FSP
Composed
by Litha Efthymiou. Two
Violins, Viola,
Violoncello. Full score
and parts. Duration 10
minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH389-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH389-FSP).
ISBN
9790708146032.
The
inspiration for Tread
Softly came from two
contrasting sources: the
religious music of early
medieval Spain, and
Debbie Locke’s
work of art
‘Retracing Your
Steps - Bristol
I’. Although over
a thousand years apart,
these two sources share a
common feature - a
powerful sense of
movement enclosed within
a static form. In early
Spanish music this
manifests in the use of
extended melisma, and in
Locke’s work it is
depicted through the
seemingly moving,
web-like form of the
central image. Tread
Softly explores the idea
of movement within stasis
through the use of a main
melodic gesture that
transforms very slowly,
but constantly,
throughout.
String Quartet No. 1
Score. Composed by
Lin Yang. Score.
Classical. Softcover. 34
pages. Sikorski #SIK8785.
Published by Sikorski
(HL.50601299).
8.25x11.75x0.126
inches.
“In
diesem Augenblickâ€
(In This Moment) is the
first work for string
quartet by the Chinese
composer Yang Lin, born
in Beijing in 1982. The
work was given its world
premiere in November 2010
by the Amaryllis Quartet
at the Laeizshalle in
Hamburg. “In diesem
Augenblick†is
concerned with the brief
moment between two
events, comparable with
the interval between two
steps whilst walking:
“This brief moment,
this motion in detail
that one does not usually
notice, has been given a
great deal of attention.
But it does not mean that
this moment stops. There
remains a contradictory
moment that remembers the
tensions and vibrations
of the past an, at the
same time, awaits the
peace of the
future.†(Yang
Lin).
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SKU: CA.5008900 Composed by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. This edition: Pape...(+)
SKU: CA.5008900
Composed by Josef Gabriel
Rheinberger. This
edition: Paperbound. Free
organ music. German
title: Streichquartett
Nr.1 In C. Full score. 40
pages. Carus Verlag #CV
50.089/00. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5008900).
ISBN
9790007092351.
Rhei
nberger's string quartets
combine rich sonority and
the art of variation,
following in the
footsteps of Schumann and
Mendelssohn, with
Rheinberger's feeling for
form, melodic beauty and
contrapuntal mastery; his
attitude to the musical
movements of his time is
suggested in his first
String Quartet, now
published in a scholarly
edition, through such
things as the quotation,
probably to be understood
ironically, from the
Prelude to Wagner's
Tristan in the last
movement.
String quartet (double
bass ad libitum) -
intermediate
SKU:
HL.49018965
Double
Bass Part. Composed
by Ludwig van Beethoven
and Wolfgang Birtel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover. 8
pages. Duration 13'.
Schott Music #ED20713-15.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018965).
ISBN
9790001175791.
What
do Beethoven and the
children's song Fuchs Du
hast die Gans gestohlen
have in common? Nothing,
strictly speaking.
Although the song was
written as early as 1824
(and theoretically,
Beethoven could have
known it), it has not
left deep marks on his
oeuvre. But what if he
had known it? Wolfgang
Birtel pursued this
question and, in reply to
it, conceived a symphony
for string quartet:
behind each movement is
an original symphony by
Beethoven (spiced with
quotes from other works).
The children's song
appears as the main theme
in the final movement of
Symphony No. 1, in the
famous funeral march of
Eroica, fate knocks at
the door (of the goose
house) in remembrance of
Symphony No. 5, and the
work ends with Ode to the
Roast Goose (Symphony No.
9). A funny and cleverly
arranged collage, a
performing and listening
pleasure in the footsteps
of Beethoven.