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.
String Quartet (rec,vl,vc,pno) SKU: BR.EB-6705 Pieces in Two to Four P...(+)
String Quartet
(rec,vl,vc,pno)
SKU:
BR.EB-6705
Pieces
in Two to Four Parts.
Composed by Fritz
Scharlach. Chamber music;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. Music
pedagogy. Full score. 56
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 6705.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-6705).
ISBN 9790004169063. 9
x 12 inches.
German.
Though a
piano can always be
included, it is not an
essential requirement for
the performance of these
settings: in some of the
carols, two violins or
two flutes are quite
sufficient, especially if
voices are used as well.
The following
combinations are
particularly suitable for
domestic music-making,
whether or not voices are
included as well:one
violin and piano,two
violins and piano,two or
three violins,violins and
recorders,two concert (C)
flutes (and an alto
flute) and - as the ideal
combination for
shepherds' songs -
flutes, violins, cello
and piano.Performing
groups and music schools
have the advantage of a
wider choice of forces
and the possibility of
varying the
instrumentation within
the individual carols and
verses. Thus large and
small combinations can
alternate, strings and
flutes can play in turn,
and finally the piano can
be used by itself or to
reinforce other
instrumental
combinations, in which
case the cello can be
added, too.The pieces are
graded in increasing
order of difficulty; the
first carols are chosen
so that they can be
mastered by violinists
after as little as 4 to 6
months of learning their
instrument. The choise
and sequence of the
carols in this book, and
also their keys, were
determined, amongst other
factors, by their
suitability for the start
of violin tuition, both
in first and in third
position, so that these
carols make an especially
good supplement of
Christmas music to the
violin method of Fritz
and Gottfried Scharlach
(with its principle of
starting with the third
position). The
progressively increasing
difficulty of the carols
has resulted, for
example, in the three
Advent carols (nos.
23-25) being placed later
in the collection.The
editor hopes that these
carols will be much
played and sung, and thus
help to fill the
Christmas season with joy
and splendour.Fritz
Scharlach, Salzburg,
December 1972
Our
beautiful Christmas
carols, old and new, are
presented here in
settings, ranging from
the easy to the more
difficult, for various
combinations of voices
and instruments that may
be available in domestic
music-making or for a
Christmas concert.
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14023669 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14023669
Composed by Michael
Nyman. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Score. Composed 1993. 48
pages. Chester Music
#CH60850. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14023669).
ISBN
9780711977570.
9.0x12.0x0.155
inches.
There are
two primary ideas behind
this composition, the
first being to create and
almost orchestral chamber
music, the idea for this
coming from a performance
of the Grosse Fuge
performed by the Arditti
Quartet. The second idea
was to excercise the
impressive and oppresive
history of the string
quartet by making the
work a compendium of
quotations from quartet
repertoire. Influence
from Schoenberg can be
heard in chromatic,
harmonic sequences and
modal/diatonic
varioations are also
actively displayed within
the piece. The quartet is
written with
amplification in mind and
it is the composer's
preference that it is
performed in this way.
String Quartet No.1 is
dedicated to the memory
of Thurston Dart. It was
commissioned by the
Arditti Quartet and first
performed by them on 23
September 1985, Warsaw.
Duration 26 minutes.
Instrumental parts are
available on sale.
Composed by
Rhian Samuel. Chamber
music. Score and Parts.
Score and parts. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y279.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y279).
ISBN
9790220223068.
Such
is the character of the
accordion that any work
featuring its distinctive
voice within an ensemble
is likely to be a
piece
d'occasion. Written
for the prizewinning
young soloist Milos
Milivojevic and performed
with the Juritz String
Quartet at the 2011
Machynlleth Festival in
Wales, Rhian Samuel's
Mist on the
Hills is no
exception. The composer
has used the rare
opportunity of writing
for the instrument in
combination with solo
strings to exploit its
illustrative powers and
create a fourteen-minute
score inspired by the
changing weather over the
hills around her Welsh
home on the Dyfi
Estuary.
In
particular, its three
movements are suggestive
of the appearance of mist
in the landscape,
'settling', 'lingering'
and 'swirling'. In the
first movement, which is
a gentle prelude, brief
accordion motifs break
through the timbre of
strings like glints of
sunshine through mist.
The second movement, more
song-like, presents three
verses of a lament; in
the first half of each
verse the accordion sings
as if from afar, while in
the second half (led by
the viola) the music
intensifies greatly. In
the dance-like and
virtuosic last movement a
short, constantly
changing refrain
alternates with two types
of material: 'swirling'
music and lighter, more
rhythmical ideas.
Finally, scale passages
invade the texture,
ceasing only as the
accordion ascends to the
top of its range in the
closing bars.
Sequence Four Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Chester
Score and Parts String Quartet; Synthesizer (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.280397(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet; Synthesizer
(Score & Parts)
SKU:
HL.280397
String
Quartet and Synthesizer
Score and Parts.
Composed by Peter
Gregson. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Duration 240 seconds.
Chester Music #CH87714.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.280397).
9.0x12.0
inches.
Peter
Gregson's Sequence Four
for String Quartet and
Juno Synthesiser.
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String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.268903 Score. Composed by Kevin Vol...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.268903
Score. Composed by
Kevin Volans. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Duration 2160
seconds. Chester Music
#CH85338. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.268903).
9.25x12.0x0.587
inches.
String
Quartet No.12 is a work
by Kevin Volans,
commissioned by the
Signum Quartet, who gave
the world premiere in
Birmingham on 11th
November 2016. The piece
lasts around 36 minutes,
and this is the Full
Score.
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String Quartet (Score &
Parts) - intermediate to
advanced
SKU:
HL.49018933
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Bernd Alois
Zimmermann. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 1942-1945. 52
pages. Duration 14'.
Schott Music #ED9985.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018933).
ISBN
9790001144117.
With
this edition, Schott
publishes the early
two-movement string
quartet by Bernd Alois
Zimmermann for the first
time. In a letter the
composer wrote: 'I am
still messing around with
my quartet. This probably
is the most concentrated
work of composition - and
the most abstract.'The
string quartet belongs
within the context of his
early works which
focussed on chamber
music, unlike those of
later years. Until 1945,
he created a number of
piano pieces and songs, a
Suite for Violin and
Piano as well as a String
Trio (ED 7563).
String Quartet
Parts. Composed by
Hans Abrahamsen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 8 pages.
Duration 150 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH33031A. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.263105).
Set of parts
for Hans Abrahamsen's Ud
og hjem for String
Quartet (1989).
Dyrecollage over danske
bornesange / An 'animal
collage' based on Danish
children songs.
Manuscript copy.
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String Quartet
Score. Composed by
Hans Abrahamsen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 5 pages.
Duration 150 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH33031. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.263113).
Hans
Abrahamsen's Ud og hjem
for String Quartet
(1989). Dyrecollage over
danske bornesange / An
'animal collage' based on
Danish children songs.
Manuscript copy. Parts
available: WH33031A.
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