You Are My Sunshine Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
String Quartet - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1196191-070 Composed by J...(+)
String Quartet - early
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1196191-070
Composed by Jimmie Davis,
Charles Mitchell.
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2019. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1196191-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1196191-070).
ISBN 9789043157988.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
With its
simple, memorable melody
and folk-song style,
You Are My
Sunshine is
undoubtedly one of
America’s most
successful old-time music
love songs. Its success
in the 1940s massively
boosted the popularity of
the song’s singer
and guitarist, Jimmie
Davis and Charles
Mitchell, so much so that
it helped to springboard
Davis’ political
career, culminating in
his successful election
as Governor of Louisiana
in 1944. Dezaire’s
skilful arrangement
retains the
quintessential country
sound of the original
with this new string
quartet
orchestration.
You Are My Sunshine
is een liefdesliedje in
de Amerikaanse
old-time-muziektraditie
met een eenvoudige,
volksliedachtige en
bijzonder aanstekelijke
melodie. Zanger Jimmie
Davis en gitarist Charles
Mitchell werden er in de
jaren 1940 enorm populair
mee. Het succes gaf Davis
zelfs een beslissende
boost in zijn politieke
carrière, die hij
bekroonde met zijn
verkiezing tot gouverneur
van de Amerikaanse staat
Louisiana. Nico Dezaire
heeft met dit arrangement
de kenmerkende
countrysound van het
origineel op vakkundige
wijze bewerkt voor
strijkkwartet.
You Are My Sunshine
ist ein Lovesong in der
Tradition der
US-amerikanischen
Old-Time Music, dessen
einfache, volksliedartige
Melodie sich sofort
einprägt. Sänger
Jimmie Davis und
Gitarrist Charles
Mitchell erlangten mit
diesem Titel in den
1940er-Jahren eine enorme
Popularität. Bei Davis
beflügelte dieser
Erfolg sogar
maßgeblich seine
politische Karriere, die
er mit seiner Wahl zum
Gouverneur des
US-Bundesstaats Louisiana
krönen konnte. Nico
Dezaire setzt in seiner
Bearbeitung den typischen
Country-Sound des
Originals gekonnt auf
eine
Streichquartett-Besetzung
um.
Critical Edition
Hardcover. Composed
by Karol Szymanowski.
PWM. Classical.
Hardcover. 60 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #9267030.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.370494).
ISBN
9781705147009. UPC:
840126994025.
The
First String Quartet in C
major, Op. 37, was
written in the autumn of
1917 and earned
Szymanowski the first
prize in a competition
organized by the Ministry
of Religious and in a
competition organized by
the Ministry of Religious
and Educational Affairs
in January 1922. The
First String Quartet is
notable for its clar and
simple construction. The
first movement is in the
formof a sonata allegro;
the Andantino semplice
(in modo iuna canzone) in
the middle is a cross
between ternary and
variation form. The final
Scherzando alla burlesca
also keeps to the form of
a sonata allegro. The
combinations and
proportions of formal
factors and the treatment
of thematic material
betray a fairly
conventional adoption of
classical models.
Similarly, the expressive
and structural use of
melodic material shows a
respect for traditional
norms. Szymanowski
created, in other works
from the same period, his
own individual type of
melodic line, which was
strongly expressive and
achieved its effect
chiefly by its tonal
qualieties; nevertheless
in this Quartet he
returns to a fluid,
cantilena-like,
symmetrically shaped
melodic line, which runs
along in broad phrases of
a concentrated,
reflective character.
Melody becomes the chief
factor in the development
of the form, both in
thematic usage and in the
application of a more
polyphonic texture.
Harmonic and tonal means
are considerably
simplified in the Quartet
[]. Most of the writing
is linear, or horizontal,
with individual treatment
of each part, the
parallel continuation of
the four sound planes,
almost a matter of
principle. The functions
of the particular
instruments in realizing
these planes are
constantly changing,which
accounts for the even
greater variedy of
tone-colour. The decision
to forego experiment with
forms and sonorities is
reflectedin the overall
approach to musical
expression. The
predominant atmosphere of
restrained emotion, quiet
lyricism and serenity is
strongly suggestive of
classical aestetic
models. (Based on Zofia
Helman Commentary on
Szymanowski Complete
Edition, Vol. B6) (II)
The ''Second String
Quartet'' represents an
interesting attempt to
revert to classical form
coupled with the new
harmonic and tonal
vocabulary worked out
previously in the
''Slopiewnie'', ''Stabat
Mater'' and ''Mazurkas''.
It was also the first
time the composer had
used folk elements in the
framework of a major
classical form. The
''Second String Quartet''
is in a special category
among Szymanowski's
works. Though it dates
from the composer was
still occupied with folk
music, it nevertheless
shows him returning to
classical models, but at
the same time using an
aesthetic of subjective
expression, which gives
the work its own
individual stamp. The
''Second String Quartet''
synthesis of the various
directions in which
Szymanowski was
attempting to develop.
The sonority and texture
used in the first.