Music for Celebrations Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1196088-070 Collection of fe...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1196088-070
Collection of festive
and solemn classical
pieces. Arranged by
Anthony Gröger. De
Haske String Series.
Classical. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2020. 32
pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1196088-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1196088-070).
ISBN 9789043158572.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
No matter the
occasion, string quartets
are always in demand.
Music for
Celebrations features
eight works by composers
ranging from Marc-Antoine
Charpentier to Charles
Gounod which rank among
the most popular wedding
classics, with many of
the pieces also well
suited for other
occasions. The arranger
Anthony Gröger has
succeeded in transforming
the works, some of which
originally had extensive
instrumentation, into
compelling string quartet
arrangements that are
also easy to play while
preserving much of the
familiar character of the
originals. The third
violin part, which can
replace the viola part if
no violist is available,
is an added
bonus.
Er is
altijd vraag naar
strijkkwartetten voor
diverse feestelijke
gelegenheden. Music
for Celebrations
bevat acht werken van
verschillende bekende
componisten, van
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
tot Charles Gounod, die
behoren tot de meest
geliefde klassiekers voor
bruiloften, maar veelal
eveneens geschikt zijn
voor andere gelegenheden.
Arrangeur Anthony
Gröger is erin
geslaagd de stukken
waarvan sommige
oorspronkelijk voor een
omvangrijke
instrumentatie zijn
geschreven te
transformeren tot
overtuigende, goed
speelbare muziek voor
strijkkwartetbezetting,
waarin het vertrouwde
klankbeeld grotendeels
behouden is gebleven. Een
handig extraatje is de
toegevoegde
derdevioolpartij, die de
altvioolpartij kan
vervangen als er geen
altviolist beschikbaar
is.
Bei
festlichen Anlässen
diverser Art sind
Streichquartette immer
wieder gefragt. In
Music for
Celebrations sind
acht Kompositionen von
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
bis Charles Gounod
versammelt, die besonders
auf Hochzeitsfeiern zu
den beliebtesten
Klassikern zählen,
wobei viele der Stücke
sich auch für andere
Gelegenheiten bestens
eignen. Dem Arrangeur
Anthony Gröger ist es
gelungen, die teilweise
umfangreich besetzten
Originalwerke in
überzeugende, gut
spielbare
Streichquartettsätze
zu verwandeln und dabei
viel vom vertrauten
Klangbild zu bewahren.
Ein Bonbon ist die
zusätzlich beiliegende
dritte Violinstimme, die
anstelle der
Bratschenstimme genutzt
werdenkann, falls kein
Bratschist zur
Verfügung steht.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114410380 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114410380
Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Saddle, Tape Junction.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
Composed 1998. Opus 60.
48 + 92 pages. Duration
30 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41038. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114410380).
UPC:
680160015160. 9.5 x 13
inches.
My second
String Quartet was
written twenty years
after the first, Opus 4
from 1978. The First
Quartet is an obsessively
contrapuntal work in one
movement, which was no
doubt influenced by my
studies with David
Diamond. I had always
intended to return to the
medium once I left the
astringency of my earlier
style, but it was only
when the National
Federation of Music Clubs
commissioned a major
chamber work, with
unspecified
instrumentation, to
celebrate their 100th
Anniversary that I was
enabled to do so. The
Second Quartet is in four
movements: Moderato,
Allegro isterico, an
Andante theme with 11
variations, and the
closing Allegro, which
then returns to the tempo
of the first movement. An
audience member at the
premiere told me that she
heard echoes of recent
tragic events such as the
Oklahoma bombing in this
work. While I had no such
programmatic intent while
writing the quartet, it
was not an entirely
incorrect assessment of
the work's intended
emotional impact. The
quartet is pervaded by a
sense of seriousness,
even mournfulness. The
second movement's scherzo
is an aggressively
animated piece of musical
machinery. The third
movement's Variations
unfold into a greater
variety of moods than the
others - but the moments
of lyricism are countered
by aggressive or ironic
outbursts. The final
movement's attempt at
triumph quickly subsides
into a return of the
first movement, before
being transformed onto a
sense of resignation and
acceptance as the
chromaticism of the
opening theme is
transformed into a pure
and diatonic C-Major. The
work received its world
premiere by the Shanghai
Quartet at the 100th
Anniversary Congress of
the National Federation
of Music Clubs at the
Congress Hotel in Chicago
on August 19th
1998. My second String
Quartet was written
twenty years after the
first, Opus 4 from
1978. The First
Quartet is an obsessively
contrapuntal work in one
movement, which was no
doubt influenced by my
studies with David
Diamond. I had always
intended to return to the
medium once I left the
astringency of my earlier
style, but it was only
when the National
Federation of Music Clubs
commissioned a major
chamber work, with
unspecified
instrumentation, to
celebrate their 100th
Anniversary that I was
enabled to do so.The
Second Quartet is in four
movements:Â Moderato,
Allegro isterico, an
Andante theme with 11
variations, and the
closing Allegro, which
then returns to the tempo
of the first movement.An
audience member at the
premiere told me that she
heard echoes of recent
tragic events such as the
Oklahoma bombing in this
work. While I had no
such programmatic intent
while writing the
quartet, it was not an
entirely incorrect
assessment of the
work’s intended
emotional impact. The
quartet is pervaded by a
sense of seriousness,
even mournfulness.Â
The second
movement’s scherzo
is an aggressively
animated piece of musical
machinery. The third
movement’s
Variations unfold into a
greater variety of moods
than the others –
but the moments of
lyricism are countered by
aggressive or ironic
outbursts. The final
movement’s attempt
at triumph quickly
subsides into a return of
the first movement,
before being transformed
onto a sense of
resignation and
acceptance as the
chromaticism of the
opening theme is
transformed into a pure
and diatonic C-Major.The
work received its world
premiere by the Shanghai
Quartet at the 100th
Anniversary Congress of
the National Federation
of Music Clubs at the
Congress Hotel in Chicago
on August 19th 1998.
Composed
by Chatori Shimizu.
Ensembles - Chamber
Music. Periferia
Publishing #CM3207PM.
Published by Periferia
Publishing (AY.CM3207PM).
ISBN
9790803752763.
Jean
Ignace Isidore Gerard, a
19th Century French
caricaturist, is not
well-known in Japan. The
composer was inspired to
compose Fiddle after
seeing Grandville's work,
Apocalypse du ballet,
which expresses
continuous patterns of
transformative objects in
a sense of disorienting
beauty. Although all four
instruments are
responsible for four
individual melodies, they
are not subjected to
fixed pitches and
textures (extended
techniques such as sul
ponticello and sul tasto
are used), and are
intended to create a
merged acoustic fabric
that is in constant
transformation.
In the summer of 1893 Antonin Dvorak sat down and composed String Quartet In ...(+)
In the summer of 1893
Antonin Dvorak sat down
and composed String
Quartet In F, Op.96.
This beloved quartet was
written whilst Dvorak was
on vacation in rural
Iowa. It is a slow
movement for quartet and
the finale sweeps along
on a energetic,
syncopated rhythm in the
second violin and viola
that shortly transforms
itself into a wonderful
patchwork of shifting
accents. The first violin
sings, first randomly and
then voluptuously, atop
this motoric
accompaniment. The
quartet is written for 2
violins, viola and cello
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14008374
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 24
pages. Chester Music
#CH68629. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14008374).
ISBN
9781846096150. UPC:
884088435202.
8.25x11.75x0.105
inches.
The Full
Score for Peter Maxwell
Davies' fourth in a
series of ten string
quartets commissioned by
the Naxos Recording
company, first performed
by the Maggini Quartet on
20th August 2004 at the
Chapel of the Royal
Palace, Oslo, Norway, as
part of the Olso Chamber
Music Festival. Composer
Note: The fourth Naxos
quartet was written in
January and February of
2004, with the intention
of producing something
lighter and much less
fierce than its
predecessor, an
unpremeditated and
spontaneous reaction to
the illegal invasion of
Iraq. I returned to the
well-known Brueghel
picture of children's
games (1560, now in
Vienna), which had been
the inspiration for my
sixth Strathclyde
Concerto, for flute and
orchestra. These
illustrations liberated
my musical imagination,
but I feel it would limit
the listener's perception
to be too specific about
which game relates to
exactly which section of
the work. Suffice it to
say that there is
vigorous play -
leap-frog, bind the devil
with a cord, truss,
wrestling - alongside
quieter pastimes - masks,
guess whom I shall
choose, courting, odds
and evens. The single
movement juxtaposes these
activities as abruptly
and intimately as they
occur in Brueghel. Rather
as the eye is taken into
different perspectives
and proportions of scale
within the picture,
taking liberties which
would never be present
in, for instance,
Brunelleschi
architectural drawings,
so here, with a constant
sequence of
transformation processes,
I have distorted the
neat, precise
implications of modal
progression, expressed in
the unison opening phrase
(from F to B through A
sharp/B flat), so that
the ear is led, en route,
into the sound
equivalents of strange
passageways and closed
rooms: sicut exposition
ludus. As work on the
quartet progressed I
became aware that I was
reading into, and behind
the games, adult motives
and implications,
concerning aggression and
war, with their
consequences. It was
impossible to escape into
innocent childhood
fantasy. The nature of
the F to B progression
underlying the whole
construction derives from
a passage in the
development of the first
movement of Mahler's
Third Symphony, and the
opening of Schoenberg's
Second String Quartet.
However, unlike in these
models, here a real - if
temporary - sense of
resolution occurs at the
close of the quartet: as
when the curtain falls on
the reconciled Count and
Countess in 'Figaro' one
wonders how long the F/B
truce will hold, and
games break out again.
The quartet is dedicated
to Giuseppe Rebecchini,
Roman architect, and
friend since the
nineteen-fifties.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440902S Composed by Behzad Ranjbar...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440902S
Composed
by Behzad Ranjbaran. Full
score. With Standard
notation. Composed 1990.
44 pages. Duration 22
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40902S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11440902S).
UPC:
680160013708.
The
quartet begins with a
5-note motif, played in
unison that permeates
melodically and
harmonically throughout
the movement. The
energetic and hard-driven
character of the second
musical idea propels the
music forward with fast
moving notes and greater
urgency. It often
alternates with the more
lyrical rendition of the
5-note motif, yielding
contrasting sections.
After a brief coda, the
5-note motif concludes
the movement much the
same way it had begun but
with greater intensity.
The second movement
explores the world of
fantasy. To some extent
the beginning and the
ending of the movement
function as the opening
and closing doors that
separate the reality from
the dream and
subconscious. It is one
continuous movement in an
arch form that gradually
accelerates to an
expansive emotional
climax and returning
steadily to the surface
led by an ethereal solo
cello. The transcendent
ending is similar to the
beginning, though half
step higher. The third
movement begins boldly
with the 5-note motif
transformed into a dance
character in a compound
meter. The asymmetrical
meter of the Persian folk
music influences much of
the rhythmic character of
the movement. The return
of many materials from
earlier movements
interwoven into the
fabric of this movement
reinforces the cyclical
and organic character of
the quarter.
Particularly, a
mysterious passage,
reminiscence of the
second movement leading
to a brief full-blown
ballad is a favorite
moment of Ranjbaran's in
the quartet. A blazingly
virtuosic viola leads the
quartet to an uplifting
conclusion.
Transformations Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Bill Holab Music
String quartet SKU: B9.791 Composed by Laura Kaminsky. This edition: sadd...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
B9.791
Composed by
Laura Kaminsky. This
edition: saddle stitch.
Score and set of parts.
Duration ca. 22 minutes.
Bill Holab Music #791.
Published by Bill Holab
Music (B9.791).
String Quartet - Grade 5 SKU: HL.14042989 Composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-ho...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 5
SKU: HL.14042989
Composed by Pelle
Gudmundsen-holmgreen.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 2014. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH31937.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14042989).
ISBN
9788759829240.
English.
All In One for
3 String Quartets was
composed by Pelle
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
in 2013 (String Quartet
No.12,13 and 14 played
simultaneously).
Gudmundsen
-Holmgreen has written a
collection of three new
string quartets: String
Quartet no. 12,
‘Each in
Each’; String
Quartet no. 13,
‘Mutual
Ordering’, and
String Quartet no. 14,
‘Well-Tuned
Sounds’. Each
quartet can be played on
its own; they can also
played simultaneously in
any combination. When all
three quartets are played
together, as they are
tonight, the combined
work is titled All in
One. About this
collection,
Gudmundsen-Holmgreenwrite
s:
'Some
years ago Kronos and the
vocal group Theatre of
Voices performed three
new pieces, which I had
written for the two
groups: one for Theatre
of Voices (Green), and
two for Kronos (New
Ground and No Ground).
They were played and sung
by each group
independently – but
also both groups together
concurrently, on top of
each other, as a final
gesture. The combined
pieces were called New
Ground Green and No
Ground
Green.
'David liked the idea
(and the result) of pairs
of quartets that could be
played both independently
and simultaneously, and
asked me if the vocal
quartet could be
transformed into a string
quartet. It could not. He
then asked me to repeat
the whole set-up with a
new pair of quartets,
adding also some
percussion instruments,
as was the case with
Green for Theatre of
Voices. Of course this
was tempting. Furthermore
David asked me to make
one of the two new
quartets a little easier
to play. 'I began to
work. The Kronos part of
the pair of quartets
turned out to be tough to
play, as David puts it.
Unfortunately the
‘easier’ one
was tough to play also!
So I had to write one
more, which was then a
little easier still (but
still not easy).
'The three new works can
be played separately and
on top of each other in
many different
combinations, resulting
in different kinds
of.
Transformations II Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Bill Holab Music
String quartet SKU: B9.793 Music for a Changing World. Composed by...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
B9.793
Music for a
Changing World.
Composed by Laura
Kaminsky. This edition:
saddle stitch. Score and
set of parts. Duration
ca. 20 minutes. Bill
Holab Music #793.
Published by Bill Holab
Music (B9.793).
Da Lontano Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Subito Music
String Quartet SKU: SU.28030020 For String Quartet. Composed by Jo...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
SU.28030020
For
String Quartet.
Composed by Jorge
Villavicencio Grossmann.
Chamber Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#28030020. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.28030020).
Da Lontano is
based on a triple
variation in which three
contrasting groups of
musical material
transforms in numerous
ways gradually gaining
intensity.string quartet
Duration: 18' Composed:
2016 Published by:
Distributed Composer.
String
quartet based on Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Score and. Composed
by Ludger Vollmer.
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 196 pages.
Duration 1920 seconds.
Schott Music #ED22466.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046476).
ISBN
9781705102718. UPC:
840126931679.
My
love is as a fever was
inspired by William
Shakespeare's sonnets.
The work was created for
the Faust Quartet with
the aim of creating a
counterpart to Alban
Berg's Lyrical Suite
using new compositional
techniques, both in terms
of emotional expression
and technical
requirements. It is a
melodic-rhythmic
composition, whose
techniques consist of the
transformation of
non-European music and
the music that was
practiced in Europe a
thousand years ago.
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String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960-). Boosey a...(+)
String Quartet Study
Score.
Composed by Mark-Anthony
Turnage (1960-). Boosey
and
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 24
pages. Boosey and Hawkes
#M060136085. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.48024787 String Quartet Study Sco...(+)
String Quartet (Study
Score)
SKU:
HL.48024787
String
Quartet Study Score.
Composed by Mark-Anthony
Turnage. Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Duration 1200 seconds.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M06013085. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024787).
UPC:
888680967529.
Contu
sion is a concise,
poignantly balanced one
movement cry of pain. Its
structure echoes
classical sonata form,
with its tight, numb and
often repeated opening
figure flowering into a
much more anguished
central section before
the terse figure returns
transformed yet
unassuaged in a bleakly
whispered ending in which
the cello briefly takes
wing.
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
String Quartet SKU: PR.16400222S Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (stu...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
PR.16400222S
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Full
score (study). With
Standard notation.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00222S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400222S).
UPC:
680160037841.
This
work follows my Quartet
No. 1 by five years. In
terms of style and
aesthetic aim, however,
it seems light years
away. Where the first
work, a 28-minute,
four-movement piece, took
aim at cosmic conflicts
and heroic resolutions,
the present work is
intended as a kind of
divertissment. Harbor
Music lasts a mere eleven
minutes, is cast in a
single movement with six
sections, and should
leave both performers and
listeners with a feeling
of good humor and
affection. The
title comes from my
experience as a guest in
the magnificent city of
Sydney, Australia. One of
its most attractive
features is its unique
system of ferry boats:
the city is laid out
around a large,
multi-channeled harbor,
with destinations more
easily approached by
water than by land.
Consequently, inhabitants
of Sydney get around on
small, people-friendly
boats that come and go
from the central docks at
Circular Quay. During a
week's visit in 1991, I
must have boarded these
boats at least a dozen
times, always bound for a
new location - the resort
town of Manley, or the
Zoo at Taronga Park, or
the shopping district at
Darling Harbour.
In casting about for a
form for my second string
quartet, a kind of loose
rondo came to mind. Each
new destination would be
approached from the same
starting-out point
(although there are
subtle variations in the
repeating theme; it's
always in a new key, and
the texture is never the
same). The result, I
hope, is a sense of
constant new information
presented with
introductory frames of a
more familiar nature.
The embarkation
theme, which begins the
piece, is a sort of
bi-tonal fanfare in which
the violins are in G
major and the viola and
cello are in B-flat
major. It is bold, eager,
and forward-looking. The
first voyage maintains
this bi-tonality,
beginning as a 9/8 due
for second violin and
viola in a kind of
rocking motion -much as a
boat produces when
reaching the deeper water
in the harbor. A sweet,
nostalgic theme emerges
over this rocking
accompaniment. This music
is developed somewhat,
then transforms quickly
into a much faster and
lighter episode, filled
with rising and falling
scales (again, in
differing keys). A
scherzando interlude in
short notes and changing
meters provides contrast,
and the episode ends with
a reprise of the scales.
The second
embarkation follows, this
time in A major/C major.
It leads quickly into a
very warm and slow theme,
in wide-leaping intervals
for the viola. This
section is interrupted
twice by solo cadenzas
for the cello, suggesting
distant boat-horns in
major thirds. The end of
the episode becomes a
transition, with
boat-horns leading into
the final appearance of
the embarkation music,
this time in trills and
tremolos instead of
sharply accented chords.
The nostalgic theme of
the first episode makes a
final appearance, serving
now as a coda. The
rocking motion continues,
in a lullaby fashion,
leaving us drowsy and
satisfied on our homeward
journey. Harbor
Music was written for the
Cavani Quartet, and is
dedicated to Richard J.
Bogomolny. Commissioned
by his employees at First
National Supermarkets as
a gift, it represents a
thank you from many of
the people (including
this composer) who have
benefitted from his
vision and generosity. An
ardent advocate of
chamber music (and a
cellist himself), Mr.
Bogomolny has for many
years been Chairman of
the Board of Chamber
Music America. -- Dan
Welcher.
String quartet SKU: HH.HH389-FSP Composed by Litha Efthymiou. Two Violins...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH389-FSP
Composed
by Litha Efthymiou. Two
Violins, Viola,
Violoncello. Full score
and parts. Duration 10
minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH389-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH389-FSP).
ISBN
9790708146032.
The
inspiration for Tread
Softly came from two
contrasting sources: the
religious music of early
medieval Spain, and
Debbie Locke’s
work of art
‘Retracing Your
Steps - Bristol
I’. Although over
a thousand years apart,
these two sources share a
common feature - a
powerful sense of
movement enclosed within
a static form. In early
Spanish music this
manifests in the use of
extended melisma, and in
Locke’s work it is
depicted through the
seemingly moving,
web-like form of the
central image. Tread
Softly explores the idea
of movement within stasis
through the use of a main
melodic gesture that
transforms very slowly,
but constantly,
throughout.
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.49047293 String...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49047293
String Quartet Score
and Parts. Composed
by Wolfgang Birtel.
String Ensemble. Chamber,
Classical. Softcover.
Schott Music #ED21282.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49047293).
ISBN
9798350118797.
Who
doesn't know the famous
Mainz carnival song
“Heile, heale
Gänsjeâ€. It
became a comforting song
that is sung on all sorts
of occasions. Wolfgang
Birtel takes the melody
on a humorous journey
through music history,
transforming it - more or
less hidden - into the
guise of famous
composers. So
“Heile, heile
Gänsje†appears
in the little sentences
sometimes with a powdered
Bach wig or at the court
ball with Johann Strauss,
with Haydn at Fürst
Esterházy or at the
Schubertiade, etc. Humor
is the trump card in
these parodies, which
involve enjoyable
music-making in a string
quartet - ad libitum with
double bass –
guaranteed.
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