Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. S...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114405050
Composed
by John Downey. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 53
pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40505.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114405050).
UPC:
680160008377. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique efffect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water ,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorlines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluch
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against the
sheets of sound conjured
up by the two violins
playing a flood of
swirling figures, evokes
a kind of static motion
in spae. Here, the
virtually imperceptible
manner in which this
hushed whisper continues
incessantly, can suggest
the potential fluidity
with which movement may
inch forward... Later
into the fourth movement
, two fairly extended
solos by the second and
then the first violins,
lead to a kind of
spontaneous dialogue
among the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of 'psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440505S
Composed
by John Downey. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 53 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40505S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440505S).
UPC:
680160008391. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique effect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorelines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluck
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against sheets
of sound conjured up by
the two violins playing a
flood of swirling
figures, evokes a kind of
static motion in space.
Here , the virtually
imperceptible manner in
which this hushed whisper
continues incessantly,
can suggest the potential
fluidity with which
movement may inch
forward... Later into the
fourth movement, two
fairly extended solos by
the second and then the
first violins, lead to a
kind of spontaneous
dialogue amont the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
seem of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14041525 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14041525
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America.
Contemporary Music. Set
of Parts. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01585A.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14041525).
ISBN
9788759871829. UPC:
196288071020.
9.5x14.25x0.167 inches.
Danish-English.
Pro
gramme Note During the
composition of my tenth
string quartet a
flower-name, host-tidlos,
came to my mind - and it
would not me leave again.
[hosttidlos is actually
autumn crocus in English,
but the composer prefers
harvest-timeless, to
maintain some of the
associations of the
Danish flower-name, red.]
The paradoxical union of
a seasonal time (harvest)
and no-time-at-all was a
good fit to the sections
of the work that I had
composed at that time,
and I decided to
tentatively stick to that
title for the
work-in-progress, and
now, having finished the
piece, I can say that is
is still a fitting title
- and it stands. Enough
about the title, I will
go on to describe
themusic, a somewhat more
precarious project. My
tenth string quartet is
probably the most basic
string quartet that I
have composed:
melodically - and in
sound - it employs the
naturally based overtones
and undertones (perceived
at major and minor,
respectively), and
rhythmically it is based
on growth, on the
principles of the Golden
Section, and the
structure itself
contrasts abundance and
exuberance with sections
of immobility and
contemplation. However,
Melos, melody, is
definitely the dominating
aspect of my STRING
QUARTET NO. 10: behind
even the most
rhythmically complex or
pure sonoric sections
lies a firm - if hidden -
basis of melodic or
polyphonic ideas. The
work was composed in
2004-2005 for the Kroger
Quartet.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14041524 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14041524
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America.
Contemporary Music.
Score. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01585.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14041524).
ISBN
9788759871812.
Danish-English.
Pro
gramme Note During the
composition of my tenth
string quartet a
flower-name, host-tidlos,
came to my mind - and it
would not me leave again.
[hosttidlos is actually
autumn crocus in English,
but the composer prefers
harvest-timeless, to
maintain some of the
associations of the
Danish flower-name, red.]
The paradoxical union of
a seasonal time (harvest)
and no-time-at-all was a
good fit to the sections
of the work that I had
composed at that time,
and I decided to
tentatively stick to that
title for the
work-in-progress, and
now, having finished the
piece, I can say that is
is still a fitting title
- and it stands. Enough
about the title, I will
go on to describe
themusic, a somewhat more
precarious project. My
tenth string quartet is
probably the most basic
string quartet that I
have composed:
melodically - and in
sound - it employs the
naturally based overtones
and undertones (perceived
at major and minor,
respectively), and
rhythmically it is based
on growth, on the
principles of the Golden
Section, and the
structure itself
contrasts abundance and
exuberance with sections
of immobility and
contemplation. However,
Melos, melody, is
definitely the dominating
aspect of my STRING
QUARTET NO. 10: behind
even the most
rhythmically complex or
pure sonoric sections
lies a firm - if hidden -
basis of melodic or
polyphonic ideas. The
work was composed in
2004-2005 for the Kroger
Quartet.
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.14041957 Parts. Composed by Sir Pet...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.14041957
Parts. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Music Sales America.
Classical, Contemporary.
Softcover. Composed 2006.
Chester Music #CH68519.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14041957).
This work was
inspired by a keyboard
piece of the same name, A
Sad Paven for these
Distracted Tymes by
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656). Tomkins had
a long association with
Worcester Cathedral,
where he was organist -
appointed magister
choristarum in 1596 - and
lived within the
precincts until shortly
before his death. At the
same time, he was
organist of the Chapel
Royal. When the city of
Worcester surrendered to
Cromwell's parliamentary
forces in 1646, Tomkins
had to watch the hasty
dismantling of his
cathedral organ and the
abolition of all choral
services. These were the
'distracted tymes' of the
'sad paven' which he
wrote in enforced
retirement at Worcester.
Parts. Score also
available (14037561).
Score and Parts String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.290388 String ...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (String Quartet)
SKU: HL.290388
String Quartet Score
and Parts. Composed
by John Luther Adams.
Music Sales America.
Softcover. Composed 2015.
40 pages. Chester Music
#CH85888/01. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.290388).
UPC:
888680922399.
This
the string quartet
version, now available
with score and parts, was
commissioned by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Association with Gustavo
Dudamel as Music
Director.
String Quartet SKU: BR.DV-4261 Complete Works. Composed by Felix B...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BR.DV-4261
Complete Works.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Chamber music; Linen.
Deutscher Verlag.
Editorial Board:
Christian Martin Schmidt
(chairman), Peter Ward
Jones, Friedhelm
Krummacher, R. Larry
Todd, Ralf Wehner;
research associates: Ralf
Wehner, Clemens Harasim,
Birgit Muller
Romantic period. Complete
Works. 336 pages.
Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik #DV 4261. Published
by Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik (BR.DV-4261).
ISBN 9790200440119. 9
x 12 inches.
The
Leipziger Ausgabe der
Werke von Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy
pursues the goal of
making accessible to the
public in an adequately
scholarly form all of
Mendelssohn's accessible
compositions, letters and
writings, along with all
other documents of his
artistic oeuvre. A
considerable number of
Mendelssohn's works are
still waiting to be
published; many others
have been published in an
unsatisfactory
manner.Though the new
Mendelssohn Complete
Edition follows the ten
volumes of the Leipziger
Mendelssohn Ausgabe (LMA)
published by the
Deutscher Verlag fur
Musik (DVfM) in Leipzig
since 1961, it sees
itself as a fundamentally
new conception which
reflects the present-day
standard of scholarly
editions.The first
volumes of the new
Complete Edition were
presented in Leipzig on 3
November 1997 at
Mendelssohn Festtage in
Leipzig.SON 411 - 413
have been awarded the
German Music Edition
Prize
2006.
Editorial
Board: Christian Martin
Schmidt (chairman), Peter
Ward Jones, Friedhelm
Krummacher, R. Larry
Todd, Ralf Wehner;
research associates: Ralf
Wehner, Clemens Harasim,
Birgit Muller Price
reduction for a
subscription.
String Quartet SKU: HL.50600643 Score and Parts. Composed by Natha...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.50600643
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Nathaniel Stookey.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover,
Score and Parts. 72
pages. Associated Music
Publishers, Inc #AMP8308.
Published by Associated
Music Publishers, Inc
(HL.50600643).
ISBN
9781495071034. UPC:
888680633202. 9x12
inches.
String
Quartet No. 1 was
inspired by The Lindsays,
who gave its first
British performances and
helped in the preparation
of this edition. The work
was commissioned by
WUNC-FM, with funds from
the North Carolina State
Department of Cultural
Resources, for the
inaugural concert and
broadcast of the WUNC
Composers-in-Context
Series. The premiere was
given by The Ciompi
Quartet at Hill Hall on
the campus of the
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
on November 21, 1998. The
work is dedicated, with
gratitude and affection,
to Ronnie and Susanne
Birks, in celebration of
their 20th anniversary of
marriage.
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Nathaniel Stookey.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. 72
pages. Published by
Associated Music
Publishers, Inc
(HL.50600644).
ISBN
9781495071041. UPC:
888680633219. 9x12
inches.
String
Quartet No. 2,
(Musée
Mécanique), was
commissioned by the
Ciompi Quartet for their
series at Duke
University, with funds
from Meet the Composer.
The first performances
were given on April 25
and 26, 2002. The Ciompi
also helped in the
preparation of this
edition and have recorded
both String Quartet No. 1
and String Quartet No. 2
for Albany Records (Troy
717). The second string
quartet is dedicated,
with enormous admiration
and gratitude, to my
friends Eric Pritchard,
Hsiao-Mei Ku, Jonathan
Bagg, and Fred Raimi of
the Ciompi Quartet.