String Quartet (fem vce - str quar - electronics (tape) and projection of lyrics...(+)
String Quartet (fem vce -
str quar - electronics
(tape) and projection of
lyrics ad lib.)
SKU:
BR.KM-2483-07
Holderlin lesen
IV. Composed by Hans
Zender. Chamber music;
stapled.
Kammermusik-Bibliothek
(Chamber Music Library).
Music post-1945; New
music (post-2000). Study
Score. Composed 2000. 56
pages. Duration 40'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #KM
2483-07. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.KM-2483-07).
ISBN
9790004502587. 9 x 12
inches.
Friedrich
HolderlinMnemosyne Ein
Zeichen sind wir,
deutungslos,Schmerzlos
sind wir und haben
fastDie Sprache in der
Fremde verloren.Wenn
namlich uber MenschenEin
Streit ist an dem Himmel
und gewaltigDie Monde
gehn, so redetDas Meer
auch und Strome mussenDen
Pfad sich suchen.
ZweifellosIst aber Einer,
derKann taglich es
andern. Kaum bedarf
erGesetz. Und es tonet
das Blatt und Eichbaume
wehn dann nebenDen
Firnen. Denn nicht
vermogenDie Himmlischen
alles. Namlich es
reichenDie Sterblichen eh
an den Abgrund. Also
wendet es sich, das
Echo,Mit diesen. Lang
istDie Zeit, es ereignet
sich aberDas Wahre. Wie
aber Liebes?
SonnenscheinAm Boden
sehen wir und trockenen
StaubUnd heimatlich die
Schatten der Walder und
es bluhetAn Dachern der
Rauch, bei alter KroneDer
Turme, friedsam; gut sind
namlich,Hat gegenredend
die SeeleEin Himmlisches
verwundet, die
Tageszeichen.Denn Schnee,
wie MaienblumenDas
Edelmutige, woEs seie,
bedeutend, glanzet aufDer
grunen WieseDer Alpen,
halftig, da, vom Kreuze
redend, dasGesetzt ist
unterwegs
einmalGestorbenen, auf
hoher StrassEin
Wandersmann geht
zornigFern ahnend mitDem
andern, aber was ist
dies?Am Feigenbaum ist
meinAchilles mir
gestorben,Und Ajax
liegtAn den Grotten der
See,An Bachen, benachbart
dem Skamandros.An
Schlafen Sausen einst,
nachDer unbewegten
Salamis steterGewohnheit,
in der Fremd, ist
grossAjax
gestorben,Patroklos aber
in des Koniges Harnisch.
Und es starbenNoch andere
viel. Am Kitharon aber
lagEleuthera, der
Mnemosyne Stadt. Der
auch, alsAblegte den
Mantel Gott, das
Abendliche nachher
losteDie Locken.
Himmlische namlich
sindUnwillig, wenn einer
nicht die Seele schonend
sichZusammengenommen,
aber er muss doch;
demGleich fehlet die
TrauerIn meinen Holderlin
lesen-Stucken ging es mir
darum, Wege zu finden,
die gewaltigen
Sprachstrukturen
Holderlins so in die
zeitliche Form der Musik
zu integrieren, dass sie
Funktionen der
musikalischen Form
ubernehmen, ohne in ihrer
Eigenkraft (sowohl
akustisch wie auch im
Sinne expressiver
,,Deutung) im geringsten
geschmalert zu werden.
Das hiess zunachst:
Sprechen, nicht singen! -
Aber das wurde nur
bedeuten, dass es nicht
um die Musikalisierung
von Text geht; ebenso
wichtig ist es, dass es
auch nicht um
melodramatisch
,,erzahlende Musik geht.
Sondern: Zwei autonome
Kunste durchdringen sich
auf diaphane Weise, ohne
sich zu uberformen oder
auszuloschen; es handelt
sich um einen Dialog,
nicht um eine
Vereinnahmung durch
Hierarchisierung.Sind wir
uns selbst zu einem
,,Zeichen...deutungslos
geworden, wie es
Holderlins Anfangszeilen
sagen, so erscheinen auch
die Zeichen, die wir
selber setzen, sich immer
mehr einer Deutbarkeit zu
entziehen. Mein Stuck,
das den vollstandigen
Text von Holderlins
Mnemosyne integriert,
stellt auf seine Weise
die Frage nach dem
,,Zeichen. ,,Was ist
dies? Klang? Wort?
Schrift? Wie sind die
Grenzen, die Ubergange,
die gegenseitigen
Beeinflussungen der
einzelnen
Zeichenregionen? Was
liegt ihnen zugrunde?
Worte und musikalische
Zeichen bewegen sich im
Medium der Zeit;
Schriftzeichen erscheinen
zunachst als
Verraumlichung, aber man
muss daran erinnern, dass
der Vorgang des
Schreibens - wie er in
der ostasiatischen
Kalligraphie zu hochster
Kunst entwickelt wurde -
auch zeitlichen Charakter
hat. Mnemosyne - die
Kraft des Sich-Erinnerns
- schafft die Zeichen,
indem sie Gestalten durch
Wiederholung fixiert und
so aus dem endlosen Fluss
der wahrgenommenen
Vorgange herauslost. Die
so entstehende
artikulierte Zeit schafft
wiederum durch das
Wechselspiel von
fixierten und sich
bewegenden Gestalten das
Bewusstsein fur
differenzierte
Formablaufe. Der
Formverlauf meines
Stuckes zeichnet solche
genetischen Prozesse
nach. Der Horer wird
schnell merken, dass die
Wortzeichen oft einer
zuerst erscheinenden
musikalischen Klangwelt
entspringen (ich stimme
Walter Benjamin zu, wenn
er sagt, dass die Sprache
in ihrer grundlegenden
Schicht expressiven - und
nicht darstellenden -
Charakter hat). Die
Schrift auf der Leinwand
folgt zunachst den
sprachlichen Aktionen der
Stimme, erhalt dann aber
auch eigene Teile der
Form zugeteilt, in der
sie sich als autonomes
Zeichen darstellt. In der
durch die drei Strophen
Holderlins
notwendigerweise
dreiteiligen Gesamtform
gibt es immer wieder
Abschnitte, in denen
entweder das musikalische
Geschehen oder die
Sprachzeichen des
Gedichtes oder das
Sich-Schreiben der
Schrift im Vordergrund
stehen; der Komponist
versteht sich also hier
auch als ,,Zusammensetzer
der in unserer
Wahrnehmung so
verschieden besetzten
Zeiten des Schreibens,
Sprechens und
Musikhorens. Es bilden
sich im Verlauf des
40-minutigen Stuckes auch
Grenzfalle, wie ,,stumme
Musik oder total
musikalisierte - ihrer
Verstehbarkeit beraubte -
Textrezitation. Auch das
Singen von Text - in
meinen bisherigen
Holderlinstucken strikt
vermieden - wird als
ausserste Moglichkeit
gegen Ende des formalen
Prozesses zugelassen. An
einigen Stellen zeigt die
Musik sozusagen direkt
auf sich selbst. Es sind
Formzustande, die ich in
meinem ,,Shir Hashirim
als ,,Koan bezeichnet
habe: ,,endlose
Wiederholungen einer
zeichenhaften
Konstellation, bei jeder
Wiederholung minimal
verandert - so wie ein
Kalligraph sein
Schriftzeichen bei jedem
Malvorgang unwillkurlich
verandert und neu
schafft. Steht im ersten
Teil der Grossform der
Aspekt des Abstrakten,
des Unsinnlichen im
Vordergrund, so wird im
zweiten Teil
Bildhaftigkeit als
Eigenschaft nicht nur der
Sprache, sondern auch der
Musik betont: die
Landschaft, halb schnee -
halb blutenbedeckt, die
der Wanderer ,,zornig
durchstreift. Am Ende
dieses Teils wird das
Schriftbild selber zur
Landschaft, die der
Leser/Horer durchwandert.
Er wird im dritten Teil
durch einen
Verwandlungsprozess zu
den ekstatischen
Ursprungen des
holderlinschen Dichtens
gefuhrt, und damit zur
explizit musikalischen
Ebene: Die Totenklage um
Hektor und Ajax wird zum
,,dithyrambischen Tanz,
wie es Holderlins
Schlusszeile entwirft:
,,... darum fehlet die
Trauer. Es bleibt noch
nachzutragen, dass ich
den in der Stuttgarter
Ausgabe der Werke
Holderlins in drei
Versionen abgedruckten
Text in einer
Mischversion verwendet
habe: die erste Strophe
aus der 2. Fassung, die
zweite mit Abweichungen
und Widerspruchen aus
allen drei Fassungen, und
die dritte Strophe aus
der 3. Fassung. (Hans
Zender) CD:Salome Kammer
(voice), Klangforum Wien,
cond. Hans ZenderKairos
0012522KAIBibliography:Al
lwardt, Ingrid:
Nach-Lese. Holderlins
Gesang im Resonanzraum
der Musik Hans Zenders,
in: Hans Zender.
Vielstimmig in sich,
hrsg. von Werner
Grunzweig, Jorn Peter
Hiekel und Anouk Jeschke
(= Archive zur Musik des
20. und 21. Jahrhunderts,
Band 12), Hofheim: Wolke
2008, pp. 43-60.Fuhrmann,
Wolfgang: Zender lesen.
Die Frage nach dem
Zeichen in ,,Mnemosyne,
in: ,,Ein Zeichen sind
wir, deutungslos.
Holderlin lesen, Ikkyu
Sojun horen, Musik
denken, hrsg. von
Violetta L. Waibel,
Gottingen: Wallstein
2020, S. 194-211Pragungen
im Pluralismus. Hans
Zender im Gesprach mit
Jorn Peter Hiekel, in:
Orientierungen. Wege im
Pluralismus der
Gegenwartsmusik, hrsg.
von Jorn Peter Hiekel (=
Veroffentlichungen des
Instituts fur Neue Musik
und Musikerziehung
Darmstadt, Band 47),
Mainz u. a.: Schott 2007,
pp. 130-137.Mosch,
Ulrich: Ultrachromatik
und Mikrotonalitat. Hans
Zenders Grundlegung einer
neuen Harmonik, in: Hans
Zender. Vielstimmig in
sich, hrsg. von Werner
Grunzweig, Jorn Peter
Hiekel und Anouk Jeschke
(= Archive zur Musik des
20. und 21. Jahrhunderts,
Band 12), Hofheim: Wolke
2008, pp. 61-76.Schmidt,
Dorte: Erfahrung und
Erinnerung.
Kompositorisches Material
zwischen Klang und
Bedeutung in der
Kammermusik des spaten
20. Jahrhunderts, in:
Mnemosyne. Zeit und
Gedachtnis in der
europaischen Musik des
ausgehenden 20.
Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von
Dorothea Redepenning und
Joachim Steinheuer,
Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006,
pp. 41-58.Zenck, Martin:
Holderlin lesen seiner
Stimme zuhoren.
Holderlin-Lekturen von
Klaus Michael Gruber,
Hans Zender und Bruno
Ganz, in: Neue
Zeitschrift fur Musik 172
(2011), Heft 6, pp.
25-29.Zender, Hans: Zu
meinem Zyklus Holderlin
lesen, in: Mnemosyne.
Zeit und Gedachtnis in
der europaischen Musik
des ausgehenden 20.
Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von
Dorothea Redepenning und
Joachim Steinheuer,
Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006,
pp. 26-40.
World
premiere: Witten
(Wittener Tage fur neue
Kammermusik), May 4,
2001.
Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle 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.
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
The Longest Time Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Facile De Haske Publications
As performed by Billy Joel. Composed by Billy Joel. Arranged by Nico Dezaire. ...(+)
As performed by Billy
Joel.
Composed by Billy Joel.
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Pop and Rock.
Set
(Score and Parts).
Composed
2020. De Haske
Publications
#DHP 1206256-070.
Published
by De Haske Publications
Beat It Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1175824-070 As performed by ...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1175824-070
As performed by
Michael Jackson.
Composed by Michael
Jackson. Arranged by
Anthony Gröger. De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Pop & Rock. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2020. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1175824-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1175824-070).
ISBN 9789043152884.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Beat It
is one of Michael
Jackson’s most
popular songs. Seen by
many as a rock song,
Beat It was ranked
by Rolling Stone
magazine as one of the
“100 Greatest
Guitar Songs of All
Timeâ€, due to the
notable inclusion of
guitarist Eddie van
Halen, and was also
awarded two Grammys for
Record of the Year and
Best Male Rock Vocal
Performance at the 1984
ceremony. Since its
release, the song has
been covered by various
artists such as Fall Out
Boy, Fergie and most
recently Anthony
Gröger, who has made
this energetic
arrangement for string
quartet.
Beat
It komt van Michael
Jacksons succesvolste
album Thriller.
Het nummer werd ook als
single uitgebracht.
Bovendien werd de hit
onderscheiden met twee
Grammy Awards en twee
American Music Awards.
Het voor Jackson toch wel
ongewoon rockachtige werk
is vaak gecoverd en
opnieuw uitgevoerd. Ook
Anthony Gröger waagde
zich eraan en schreef een
spetterende bewerking
voor
strijkkwartet.
Beat It, eine
Single-Auskopplung aus
Michael Jacksons
erfolgreichstem Album
Thriller, wurde
mit zwei Grammys und zwei
American Music Awards
ausgezeichnet. Der fu r
Jackson ungewöhnlich
rockige Titel wurde
seither mehrfach gecovert
und neu interpretiert wie
hier von Anthony
Gröger, der sich zu
einer fetzigen
Bearbeitung fu r
Streichquartett
inspirieren
ließ.
Wander Bitter-Sweet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Seesaw Music Corp
French Horn & String Quartet SKU: SU.50020950 For French Horn & String...(+)
French Horn & String
Quartet
SKU:
SU.50020950
For
French Horn & String
Quartet. Composed by
Pamela Marshall. Chamber
Music, Mixed Ensemble,
Brass, Horn, Chamber
Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Seesaw
Music Corp #50020950.
Published by Seesaw Music
Corp (SU.50020950).
String Duo & Ensemble, Quartet SKU: AP.36-M199201 1. Composed by W...(+)
String Duo & Ensemble,
Quartet
SKU:
AP.36-M199201
1. Composed by
William Ryden. This
edition: Master String
Series. Duet or Duo;
Method/Instruction;
Quartet. LudwigMasters -
Master String Series.
Book. LudwigMasters
Publications #36-M199201.
Published by
LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-M199201).
ISBN
9781638873228. UPC:
735816135492.
English.
A
wonderful and practical
collection of wedding
music arranged for string
quartet. Contains the
standard wedding
favorites such as
Wagner's "Bridal
Chorus" and
Purcell's "Trumpet
Tune." Titles
included: 1. Bridal
Chorus (Wagner) 2.
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
3. Allelujah
(Mozart) 4.
Where'er You Walk
(Handel) 5. Adagio
(Mendelssohn) 6.
Meditation (Massenet)
7. The Ring on my
Finger (Schumann)
8. Ave Maria
(Bach/Gounod).
These products
are currently being
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publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.
Composed
by Bose. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Score and Parts. Composed
1989/1990. 164 pages.
Duration 28'. Schott
Music #AVV 153. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49020925).
ISBN
9790200101270.
The
first movement is
characterized by the
interplay between a
delicate, almost fragile
theme and its extremely
harsh development. The
second is melodic and the
third tonally repetitive.
The finale almost seems
to seek the introductory
theme, but quickly
fades.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11440505S
Composed
by John Downey. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 53 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40505S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440505S).
UPC:
680160008391. 11 x 14
inches.
Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique effect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorelines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluck
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against sheets
of sound conjured up by
the two violins playing a
flood of swirling
figures, evokes a kind of
static motion in space.
Here , the virtually
imperceptible manner in
which this hushed whisper
continues incessantly,
can suggest the potential
fluidity with which
movement may inch
forward... Later into the
fourth movement, two
fairly extended solos by
the second and then the
first violins, lead to a
kind of spontaneous
dialogue amont the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
seem of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions.