String quartet SKU: HL.49045639 Chaconne. Composed by Fred Lerdahl...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HL.49045639
Chaconne. Composed
by Fred Lerdahl. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2016.
108 pages. Duration 990
seconds. Schott Music #ED
30174. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045639).
ISBN
9781540004796. UPC:
888680710774.
9.5x12.0x0.37
inches.
Chaconne
(2016), for string
quartet, was commissioned
by the Daedalus Quartet
to celebrate its 15th
anniversary. The
commission was supported
by New Music USA, made
possible by annual
program support and/or
endowment gifts from
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, Helen F.
Whitaker Fund, and Aaron
Copland Fund for Music.My
music has a substantial
history with Daedalus. I
composed the Third String
Quartet (2008) for them,
and subsequently they
performed my three string
quartets on several
occasions and recorded
them brilliantly on
Bridge Records (Bridge
9352: Music of Fred
Lerdahl, vol. 3).
Chaconne is in one
movement lasting 19
minutes. It is
effectively my fourth
string quartet. Quartets
1-3 form a unified cycle
lasting 70 minutes. When
I finished the cycle, I
thought I would never
write again for the
medium; yet I could not
resist the opportunity of
working again with
Daedalus. The issue was
how to compose another
string quartet unrelated
to the earlier cycle. The
solution came from my
solo cello piece There
and Back Again (2010),
which was based on a
four-bar variation
pattern from a
17th-century chaconne.
Unlike the asymmetrical
phrases and expanding
variations of much of my
music, the chaconne form
requires symmetrical
phrases and strictly
periodic variations. I
wished to work again with
these symmetries but on a
larger scale. Chaconne
also differs in character
and expression from the
three-quartet cycle. The
cycle is inward and
intense, a kind of
psychological excavation.
Chaconne is, for the most
part, transparent and
playful. Many of its
textures emerge from
little canons, not
completely unlike the
rounds that children
sing. Any composer who
writes in chaconne form
(one thinks above all of
the last movement of
Bach's D minor violin
partita and the finale of
Brahms's Fourth Symphony)
is confronted with the
challenge of how to
create a larger form out
of a constantly repeating
pattern.My Chaconne grows
from paired
antecedent-consequent
phrases, each variation
lasting eight bars. The
50 variations group into
three large rotations,
forming three arcs of
tension and relaxation,
with subtle parallel
connections across the
rotations.
Notwithstanding my
attraction to chaconne
form, I purposefully
disguised its symmetries
and periodicities in
order to build an overall
dramatic shape. Fred
Lerdahl.
Quartet Club 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Boosey and Hawkes
For 2 Violins, Viola (or Violin 3) and Cello. By Various. Arranged by Sheila Nel...(+)
For 2 Violins, Viola (or
Violin 3) and Cello. By
Various. Arranged by
Sheila Nelson. (Set).
Boosey and Hawkes Chamber
Music. Size 8.25x11.5
inches. 60 pages.
Published by Boosey and
Hawkes.
String Quartet No.3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Promethean Editions
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PO.PME07 Composed by David Farquhar. Sw...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PO.PME07
Composed by
David Farquhar. Sws.
Score and parts. Composed
2005. Promethean Editions
#PME07. Published by
Promethean Editions
(PO.PME07).
ISBN
9780958242882.
Comp
osed after finishing the
vocal score of an opera
based on Shakespeare's
The Tempest, Farquhar's
String Quartet No.3
(1998) is pervaded by
material from the opera.
A twisting, rising violin
phrase provides most of
the material for the
first movement, in which
moods shift and compound
rhythms alternate and
combine. Speed and
capriciousness are
reflected in the
scherzando second
movement, while the third
movement is a series of
variations culminating in
the twisting lines of the
work's opening.
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..
Join a String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Débutant Or-Tav Music Publications
By Asia Rodstein, for violin solo with playback. This ingenious album by Asia Ro...(+)
By Asia Rodstein, for
violin solo with
playback. This ingenious
album by Asia Rodstein
provides beginners with
the opportunity to play
in an ensemble and to
develop an ear for
playing together. For
each song, there is a
preparatory exercise, and
a first violin part.
Book/CD. Grade 1