The Turn. Composed by Mikis Theodorakis (1925-). This edition: Saddle stitching....(+)
The Turn. Composed by
Mikis Theodorakis
(1925-). This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String. Score And
Parts. Composed 1946.
20551. 56 pages. Duration
8'. Schott Music
#ED20551. Published by
Schott Music
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114422680 Spring Outing. Comp...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114422680
Spring Outing.
Composed by Chen Yi. Set
of Score and Parts.
8+2+2+2+1 pages. Duration
5 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-42268. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114422680).
ISBN
9781491136041. UPC:
680160688197.
TACHU
N (SPRING OUTING) was
composed in 2021 for
“The Joy
Project,†to
commission uplifting
works for performance at
free outdoor concerts in
the San Francisco Bay
region. The work’s
title comes from the
annual Chinese festival
when people go outdoors
and travel, to welcome
the arrival of the new
Spring season. This
cheerful 5-minute work
features energetic
melodic lines in unison,
contrasting with vivid
rhythmic patterns, which
the composer indicates as
expressing our excitement
upon breathing the fresh
Spring air. Tachun
(Spring Outing) was
commissioned by and
dedicated to the Del Sol
String Quartet as a part
of The Joy Project in
2021. Tachun is also the
name of a Chinese
traditional festival when
people go outdoors and
travel, to welcome the
arrival of the new spring
season each year. Here is
a statement from the Del
Sol String Quartet about
this project:“Del
Sol has commissioned a
body of short musical
works written to give
joy. As our gift to our
community during these
times, we are performing
these pieces in numerous
free concerts at public
settings around the Bay
Area — parks,
schoolyards, open spaces
— where people can
soak up some musical
“joy†while
safely practicing social
distancing in the open
air.â€My string
quartet has active
melodic lines in unison,
contrasting with vivid
rhythmic patterns, to
express our excitement
when we breathe the fresh
air.
(The Edelman String Quartet). Composed by Jonathan Leshnoff. For string quartet ...(+)
(The Edelman String
Quartet). Composed by
Jonathan Leshnoff. For
string quartet (2 violin,
viola, cello).
Contemporary. Standard
Notation. Duration 15
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #494-03001.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440385S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440385S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40385S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440385S).
UPC:
680160029907.
A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell. Both
of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.
The piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption -
slow/fast/slow/fast -
with the first and third
sections alternating
declamatory and calmer
gestures, and the second
and fourth being, in
effect, almost variants
of each other. Quartet
No. 4 is approximately 20
minutes in duration and
each movement, as noted,
was written in memory of
dear friends who passed
away during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work was
completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New York.
--Sydney Hodkinson. A
shorter and less
stringent work than my
two previous quartets
(1992 and 1994), the
Fourth Quartet is
comprised, almost
obsessively, of the
interplay between two
thematic kernels: (1) a
5-note motto, announced
at the outset, derived
from pitches in my own
name; and (2) a brief
legato line of expressive
sevenths (minor/major),
which is itself born out
of the first cell.Â
Both of these fragments
constantly pervade the
entire work, albeit in
ever-changing raiment.The
piece is extremely
classical in design: four
movements played without
interruption –
slow/fast/slow/fast
– with the first
and third sections
alternating declamatory
and calmer gestures, and
the second and fourth
being, in effect, almost
variants of each
other.Quartet No. 4 is
approximately 20 minutes
in duration and each
movement, as noted, was
written in memory of dear
friends who passed away
during late 1995 and
early 1996. The work
was completed in April of
1996 in Ormond, Florida
and Fairport, New
York.—Sydney
Hodkinson.
Composed
by Richard Wernick.
Premiered by the
Juilliard String Quartet,
Perelman Theater,
Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society;
Philadelphia, PA.
Contemporary. Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed February 19
2015. 27 pages. Duration
19 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41733S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441733S).
UPC:
680160631865.
Strin
g Quartet No. 9 is the
fourth that Wernick has
written for the Juilliard
Quartet. A commission by
the Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society, Wernick's
ninth string quartet was
premiered by the
Juilliard in November,
2015 and subsequently
taken on tour. The first
movement's affect (marked
'Assertive, Aggressive')
[compares] to Rockport's
forbidding coastline in
the eyes of the first.
settlers. This was an apt
analogy since the work's
musical language is, in
today's vernacular,
'gnarly.' [The second
movement]...a
'never-ending throb of
repeated notes'...the
effect of steadily
diminishing life-force,
though with a 'final
burst of hope from the
solo cello.' Again, the
composer made intriguing
use of many of the
different ways stringed
instruments can produce
sound. Geoffrey Wieting,
The Boston Musical
Intelligencer.
Composed
by Richard Wernick.
Premiered by the
Juilliard String Quartet,
Perelman Theater,
Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society;
Philadelphia, PA.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed February 19
2015. 27+8+8+8+8 pages.
Duration 19 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41733. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417330).
UPC:
680160631841.
Strin
g Quartet No. 9 is the
fourth that Wernick has
written for the Juilliard
Quartet. A commission by
the Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society, Wernick's
ninth string quartet was
premiered by the
Juilliard in November,
2015 and subsequently
taken on tour. The first
movement's affect (marked
'Assertive, Aggressive')
[compares] to Rockport's
forbidding coastline in
the eyes of the first.
settlers. This was an apt
analogy since the work's
musical language is, in
today's vernacular,
'gnarly.' [The second
movement]...a
'never-ending throb of
repeated notes'...the
effect of steadily
diminishing life-force,
though with a 'final
burst of hope from the
solo cello.' Again, the
composer made intriguing
use of many of the
different ways stringed
instruments can produce
sound. Geoffrey Wieting,
The Boston Musical
Intelligencer.
Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Theodore Presser Co.
(String Quartet No. 3). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For string quartet (2 ...(+)
(String Quartet No. 3).
Composed by Shulamit Ran
(1949-). For string
quartet (2 violins, 2
violas, violoncello).
Contemporary. Score and
Parts. Standard Notation.
Composed March 9 2013. 92
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41690.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440571S Composed by Ralph Shapey. ...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440571S
Composed
by Ralph Shapey. Score.
With Standard notation.
25 pages. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-40571S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440571S).
Chamber Music Viola,
Violin 1, Violin 2,
baritone voice,
Violoncello
SKU:
PR.11140113S
With
Baritone. Composed by
George Rochberg. Spiral.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 1979. 80 pages.
Theodore Presser Company
#111-40113S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11140113S).
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440327S Composed by Frederick Jaco...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440327S
Composed
by Frederick Jacobi. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 52 pages.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40327S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440327S).
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Theodore Presser Co.
(String Quartet No. 2). Composed by Dan Welcher. String quartet. For Violin I, V...(+)
(String Quartet No. 2).
Composed by Dan Welcher.
String quartet. For
Violin I, Violin II,
Viola, Cello.
Contemporary. Score and
parts. Standard notation.
27 pages. Duration 11
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00222.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440602S Composed by Richard Wernic...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440602S
Composed
by Richard Wernick.
Score. With Standard
notation. 40 pages.
Duration 35 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40602S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440602S).
