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.
(String Quartet). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For String Quartet (Parts). M...(+)
(String Quartet). By
Benjamin Britten
(1913-1976). For String
Quartet (Parts). Music
Sales America. Softcover.
48 pages. Chester Music
#CH80509. Published by
Chester Music
String quartet SKU: HL.49045639 Chaconne. Composed by Fred Lerdahl...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HL.49045639
Chaconne. Composed
by Fred Lerdahl. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2016.
108 pages. Duration 990
seconds. Schott Music #ED
30174. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045639).
ISBN
9781540004796. UPC:
888680710774.
9.5x12.0x0.37
inches.
Chaconne
(2016), for string
quartet, was commissioned
by the Daedalus Quartet
to celebrate its 15th
anniversary. The
commission was supported
by New Music USA, made
possible by annual
program support and/or
endowment gifts from
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, Helen F.
Whitaker Fund, and Aaron
Copland Fund for Music.My
music has a substantial
history with Daedalus. I
composed the Third String
Quartet (2008) for them,
and subsequently they
performed my three string
quartets on several
occasions and recorded
them brilliantly on
Bridge Records (Bridge
9352: Music of Fred
Lerdahl, vol. 3).
Chaconne is in one
movement lasting 19
minutes. It is
effectively my fourth
string quartet. Quartets
1-3 form a unified cycle
lasting 70 minutes. When
I finished the cycle, I
thought I would never
write again for the
medium; yet I could not
resist the opportunity of
working again with
Daedalus. The issue was
how to compose another
string quartet unrelated
to the earlier cycle. The
solution came from my
solo cello piece There
and Back Again (2010),
which was based on a
four-bar variation
pattern from a
17th-century chaconne.
Unlike the asymmetrical
phrases and expanding
variations of much of my
music, the chaconne form
requires symmetrical
phrases and strictly
periodic variations. I
wished to work again with
these symmetries but on a
larger scale. Chaconne
also differs in character
and expression from the
three-quartet cycle. The
cycle is inward and
intense, a kind of
psychological excavation.
Chaconne is, for the most
part, transparent and
playful. Many of its
textures emerge from
little canons, not
completely unlike the
rounds that children
sing. Any composer who
writes in chaconne form
(one thinks above all of
the last movement of
Bach's D minor violin
partita and the finale of
Brahms's Fourth Symphony)
is confronted with the
challenge of how to
create a larger form out
of a constantly repeating
pattern.My Chaconne grows
from paired
antecedent-consequent
phrases, each variation
lasting eight bars. The
50 variations group into
three large rotations,
forming three arcs of
tension and relaxation,
with subtle parallel
connections across the
rotations.
Notwithstanding my
attraction to chaconne
form, I purposefully
disguised its symmetries
and periodicities in
order to build an overall
dramatic shape. Fred
Lerdahl.
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.
String Quartet or String Orchestra - easy SKU: BT.DHP-1135315-070 Arrange...(+)
String Quartet or String
Orchestra - easy
SKU:
BT.DHP-1135315-070
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske String Orchestra
Series. Set (Score and
Parts). De Haske
Publications #DHP
1135315-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1135315-070).
ISBN 9789043146814.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.