String quartet (double bass ad libitum) - intermediate

SKU: HL.49018965

Double Bass Part. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Birtel. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Softcover. 8 pages. Duration 13'. Schott Music #ED20713-15. Published by Schott Music (HL.49018965).

ISBN 9790001175791.

What do Beethoven and the children's song Fuchs Du hast die Gans gestohlen have in common? Nothing, strictly speaking. Although the song was written as early as 1824 (and theoretically, Beethoven could have known it), it has not left deep marks on his oeuvre. But what if he had known it? Wolfgang Birtel pursued this question and, in reply to it, conceived a symphony for string quartet: behind each movement is an original symphony by Beethoven (spiced with quotes from other works). The children's song appears as the main theme in the final movement of Symphony No. 1, in the famous funeral march of Eroica, fate knocks at the door (of the goose house) in remembrance of Symphony No. 5, and the work ends with Ode to the Roast Goose (Symphony No. 9). A funny and cleverly arranged collage, a performing and listening pleasure in the footsteps of Beethoven.

Voice & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y296

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber music. For High Voice, String Quartet and Piano. Score (2 copies supplied) and parts. Score and parts. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y296. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y296).

ISBN 9790220223525.

Natu re and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?

Arranged by Carlo Matelli. Part(s); Quartet; Score; String Quartet. Faber Edition. Intermediate. Published by Faber Music

(Urtext der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe). By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Edited by Ludwig Finscher. For string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello). Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. Serie VIII, Werkgruppe 20/1,3. Klassik (Classical). Collection; Score; Urtext Edition; Complete Edition (cloth bound)

(Parts). By Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Masterworks; Part(s); Quartet; String Quartet. Faber Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork. Published by Faber Music

String Quartet (Study Score)

SKU: HL.49015903

Appony-Quartet No. 2. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Study Score. Op. 71/2. 22 pages. Eulenburg Edition #ETP145. Published by Eulenburg Edition (HL.49015903).

ISBN 9783795763466. UPC: 073999317336. 5.25x7.5x0.098 inches.

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Accordian & String Quartet

SKU: ST.Y279

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.

By Antonio Vivaldi. String Quartet. Five movements from Spring and Autumn. Violin I limited to 3rd position. Includes 3rd violin part. Published by Latham Music Enterprises.