String
Quartet - Score.
Composed by Julia
Hodkinson. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Score.
Composed 2014. 20 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH32129. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14043251).
ISBN
9788759831380.
English.
Juliana
Hodkinson 's Is There
Something You Can Tell Us
for String Quartet. This
ten minute piece was
written for the Anima
Quartet and was
comissioned by SWR
(South-West German Radio)
for first performance at
Theaterhaus Stuttgart on
7th June 2014 during the
festival 'Lost & Found -
Stimme. Text. Szene.'.The
quartet's title and the
titles of the individual
movements are taken from
Cynthia Troup's libretto
'Turbulence'. I Degrees
of freedom II Hidden by
an almost perfect balance
III We are taught that it
is out of reach IV For
the real earth we do not
know yet.
Voyage for String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440572S Composed by Ellen Taaffe Z...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440572S
Composed
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Sws. Premiere: South
Mountain Concerts,
Pittsfield, MA; Saint
Lawrence String Quartet.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2012. 16 pages.
Duration 12 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40572S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440572S).
ISBN
9781598066029. UPC:
680160617685. 9x12
inches.
When the
family heirs to the
legendary Galimir String
Quartet (three sisters
and a brother) gathered
to commemorate the
centenary birth years of
these famed performers,
they chose Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich to commission for
this honor. The composer,
who has also worked
professionally as a
violinist, responded with
a one-movement odyssey
entitled Voyage,
cross-breeding her own
characteristic style with
glimpses of Viennese
waltzes and other Galimir
flavor. There is a sweet,
sad lyricism to this
work, a hectic
discord..., some wailing
and moaning, these moods
alternating with dancing
klezmer rhythms of Jewish
wedding music that take
over and make things
right in the end.
(Stanley Fefferman,
BachTrack.com).
Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered ...(+)
Parts for String Quartet
No.3 'Angel's Music' by
Bent Sorensen (1988)
Premiered by the Arditti
String Quartet at the
Danish Radio Concert Hall
16 November 1988. Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angels Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on Angels
Music was started in
Rome, where I spent the
autumn of 1987 staying at
The Danish Academy.
Whether this stay has
influenced the quartet or
not is impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part ofthe
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of Angels
Music is divided into
three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030980 Parts. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030980
Parts. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00249.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030980).
ISBN
9788759871973.
12.0x16.0x0.285
inches.
Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angel's Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on
Angel's Music was started
in Rome, where I spent
the autumn of 1987
staying at The Danish
Academy. Whether this
stay has influenced the
quartet or not is
impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part of the
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of
Angel's Music is divided
into three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the general
pattern almost
fractionally into the
smallest cells of the
music, or more correctly;
crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'.
Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
String Quartet SKU: HL.49047454 Score and Parts. Composed by Julia...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.49047454
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Julian Anderson.
String Ensemble. Chamber,
Classical. Softcover. 148
pages. Duration 1380
seconds. Schott Music
#ED13989. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047454).
UPC:
842819101086.
9.0x12.0x0.358
inches.
My 3rd
String Quartet is in six
contrasted movements.
Certain musical figures
recur across the work,
but there are few themes
as such. The main
emphasis is on contrast
of mood, texture,
harmony, pacing and
timing. Unlike many of my
works this quartet had no
extra-musical
inspiration, and in
principle should have no
subtitle. Certain
features already present
in my music became more
prominent in this new
work: modes (limited
collections of pitches)
have always helped me to
focus musical character,
but here a sense of key
note for each mode became
much more pronounced, as
did the difference
between modes for each
section of the work. A
sort of hybrid key-system
emerged (even with
equivalents of major and
minor) which is not
normal tonality, nor does
it aim to imitate it.
Unlike tonality this
key-system includes
noises, extended
performance techniques
and intervals outside
Western tuning as
available resources. What
I hope it does is to
focus the listening
experience onto different
musical areas, to
encourage a sense of both
modulation from one area
to another and to give
the music a sense of
goal. No conscious
knowledge of this is
needed when listening:
the music should
communicate directly on
its own. Here, then, is
this collection of six
musical colours, related
and unrelated, different
yet belonging together,
variable yet in a set
order. Hence the
subtitle, chosen both for
both its sound and its
sense: 'hana no hanataba'
meaning, in Japanese,
'bouquet of flowers'. A
brief description: 1)
Moderately fast. Short
droplets of sounds gather
increasing momentum. 2)
Very fast. Canons and
bells at different
speeds. 3) Very slow -
fast - very slow - very
fast - very slow. The
main slow movement and
its main scherzo. An
emphasis on non-tempered
tunings and on inhaling
and exhaling waves of
sound. The slow sections
feature florid melodic
writing. In the exuberant
scherzo competing duos
and trios create
imaginary folk music. 4)
Extremely fast/extremely
slow. Open strings and
harmonics fuse into a
single string instrument
- like a sort of large
resonating Medieval
tromba marina. 5) Very
fast. A variation on
movement 2). Variation,
Schoenberg told Cage, is
just a sort of repetition
'with some things changed
and others not.' 6) Slow
- Very Fast - Fast -
Slow. The opening calm
harmonies and florid
melodies evoke movement
3) in different music.
The fast part features
one overt theme: a
fanfare-like call to
attention which is
subject to extensive
development. There is
much use of non-Western
tuning. At its climax the
music freezes into a
frieze - a wall of sound
standing in front of the
audience with increasing
obstinacy and certainty
as the work grinds
towards its cadence.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9243 Full Score. Composed by...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9243
Full
Score. Composed by
Christian Mason. Chamber
music; stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. World premiere
of the original version:
London, May 10, 2016World
premiere of the string
orchestra version:
Clermont-Ferrand, October
8, 2020. New music
(post-2000). Full score.
Composed 2016/2020. 40
pages. Duration 19'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9243. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9243).
ISBN
9790004185438. 9 x 12
inches.
It was the
practice of Khoomii
(throat singing) -
following several
workshops with Michael
Ormiston - that first
attracted me to Tuvan
music. Composing this
Songbook, the first in a
series commissioned by
the Ligeti Quartet, I
took the chance to
reflect on compositional
questions around
transcription and
arrangement of existing
music, and frequently
found myself asking:
where is the boundary
between the source
material and the new
substance? Of course the
relationship varies from
piece to piece, and
moment to moment:
sometimes we seem to
glimpse the pure source,
but most of the time
there are differing
degrees of distance,
working towards or away
from it. This new version
for string orchestra
corresponds closely to
the original quartet
version, with an
additional part for
double basses.The
traditional Tuvan songs
that I have transcribed
and recomposed are all
known to me from the Ay
Kherel CD The Music of
Tuva: Throat Singing and
Instruments from Central
Asia (2004, Arc Music).
According to the notes
from that CD, this is
what the songs are
about:1. Dyngylday: If
you have come on a horse
in blue, it doesn't mean
that you are the best. My
heart tells me something
else: my sweetheart
doesn't have such a
beautiful horse, but he
is my darling.An
alternative
interpretation from Alash
Ensemble
(alashensemble.com): The
word dyngylday is a
nonsense term with no
translation. The song
makes good-humored fun of
somebody for being a
good-for-nothing.2. Eki
Attar (The Best Steeds):
The horse is the basis of
our life. It is a magic
creature. Even its step
is full of music and
rhythm. You may not be a
horse rider, but when you
hear this song you will
always remember horses.3.
Kuda Yry: This wedding
song glorifies the
strength of the groom and
the beauty of his
Horse.4. Ezir-Kara
('Black Eagle'): This was
the name of a horse, who
became a legend through
his remarkable strength
and speed.It is not just
overtones that abound
here: there are galloping
rhythms aplenty, and
though I am no horse
rider I tried to keep the
horses galloping in my
imagination while
composing these
pieces.Christian Mason
(with quotes from Ay
Kherel and Alash
Ensemble)
World
premiere of the original
version: London/UK, May
10, 2016, World premiere
of the string orchestra
version:
Clermont-Ferrand/France,
October 8, 2020.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9244 Set of Parts. Composed ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-9244
Set of
Parts. Composed by
Christian Mason. Chamber
music; stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. World premiere
of the original version:
London, May 10, 2016World
premiere of the string
orchestra version:
Clermont-Ferrand, October
8, 2020. New music
(post-2000). Set of
parts. Composed
2016/2020. 92 pages.
Duration 19'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9244.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9244).
ISBN 9790004185445. 9
x 12 inches.
It was
the practice of Khoomii
(throat singing) -
following several
workshops with Michael
Ormiston - that first
attracted me to Tuvan
music. Composing this
Songbook, the first in a
series commissioned by
the Ligeti Quartet, I
took the chance to
reflect on compositional
questions around
transcription and
arrangement of existing
music, and frequently
found myself asking:
where is the boundary
between the source
material and the new
substance? Of course the
relationship varies from
piece to piece, and
moment to moment:
sometimes we seem to
glimpse the pure source,
but most of the time
there are differing
degrees of distance,
working towards or away
from it. This new version
for string orchestra
corresponds closely to
the original quartet
version, with an
additional part for
double basses.The
traditional Tuvan songs
that I have transcribed
and recomposed are all
known to me from the Ay
Kherel CD The Music of
Tuva: Throat Singing and
Instruments from Central
Asia (2004, Arc Music).
According to the notes
from that CD, this is
what the songs are
about:1. Dyngylday: If
you have come on a horse
in blue, it doesn't mean
that you are the best. My
heart tells me something
else: my sweetheart
doesn't have such a
beautiful horse, but he
is my darling.An
alternative
interpretation from Alash
Ensemble
(alashensemble.com): The
word dyngylday is a
nonsense term with no
translation. The song
makes good-humored fun of
somebody for being a
good-for-nothing.2. Eki
Attar (The Best Steeds):
The horse is the basis of
our life. It is a magic
creature. Even its step
is full of music and
rhythm. You may not be a
horse rider, but when you
hear this song you will
always remember horses.3.
Kuda Yry: This wedding
song glorifies the
strength of the groom and
the beauty of his
Horse.4. Ezir-Kara
('Black Eagle'): This was
the name of a horse, who
became a legend through
his remarkable strength
and speed.It is not just
overtones that abound
here: there are galloping
rhythms aplenty, and
though I am no horse
rider I tried to keep the
horses galloping in my
imagination while
composing these
pieces.Christian Mason
(with quotes from Ay
Kherel and Alash
Ensemble)
World
premiere of the original
version: London/UK, May
10, 2016, World premiere
of the string orchestra
version:
Clermont-Ferrand/France,
October 8, 2020.
String quartet SKU: FG.042-09103-6 Composed by Eero Sipila. Score. Publis...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.042-09103-6
Composed by Eero Sipila.
Score. Published by
Fennica Gehrman
(FG.042-09103-6).
ISBN
979-0-042-09103-6.
Eero Sipila was an
organist by training. His
liking for Gregorian
chant left its mark on
his compositions in the
form of stylistic
borrowings or at least
reflections. In one of
his letters Sipila
mentioned as his main
work the quartet that was
to be the last thing he
wrote. The name Lux
aeterna is a reference to
the section in the
Gregorian mass, melodic
motifs from which
dominate the entire
quartet. There is no
trace of the modernistic
tendencies of the works
composed in the 1960s,
but the pungent seconds
harmonies characteristic
of Sipila are all
there.
String Quartet No.9 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Music Sales
String Quartet SKU: HL.14031827 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales Amer...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14031827
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. 48 pages. Music
Sales #KP01084. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14031827).
ISBN
9788759871089.
Danish-English.
Pre
face The three movements
of the quartet may be
perceived as three
different expressions of
an unstable core: an
inherent unrest leads to
frequent changes of
direction. The first
movement is full of
dramatic contrasts: it is
followed by a second
movement, whose basic
mood of meditative rest
is challenged by
occasional centrifugal
utbursts, while the third
movement takes the
inherent conflicts to a
higher level, contrasting
material of introspective
lyricism with excessively
pathetic moods. The final
way out is a retrograde
one, (back) into the
source: through a
constant
accelerando-diminuendo
the piece disappears into
a vanishing point. The
into the source of the
titlemay be visualized as
a reversed
fountain-action: the
broad fan-like spread of
the first movement, a
more coherent-solid
second movement, and
finally - in the third
movement - a return-run,
ever more vehemently,
like a suction into the
spring itself ... The
musical motifs are
varied: there are
traffic-situations (which
I heard!) with stomping
and machine-like rhythms
in different, but
simultaneous tempi, and
there are more abstract
upwards and downwards
half-tone-scales, with
changing accents,
creating glimpses of
melodies. INTO THE
SOURCE, String Quartet
No. 9, was composed on a
double-commission from
the Orion Quartet and the
Vertavo Quartet. The
premiere performances
took places in Santa Fe
in 2002 and in Oslo in
2003. Per Norgard.
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743.
Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
music resources there and
then..