Second String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441783S Composed by Carter Pann. P...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.11441783S
Composed
by Carter Pann. Premiered
at the ACE Gallery in
Beverly Hills, CA.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2014. 46 pages.
Duration 30 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41783S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441783S).
UPC:
680160636884.
With
support from Elizabeth
and Justus Schlichting,
Pann's Second String
Quartet was written for
the Takacs Quartet to
honor the contributions
of NancyBell Coe as
president of the Music
Academy of the West. The
Takacs, hailed as one of
the world's greatest
ensembles, performed the
work as part of a
weeklong series of
masterclasses at the
Academy's Summer Festival
2015. The Second String
Quartet is made up of six
descriptive movements: I.
L'Extase, II.
Precipitato, III.
Passacaglias, IV.
Commute, V. Adjusting the
Torque, VI. Escher's
Rounds. For advanced
performers.
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-876-8 Composed by Timo Alakot...(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-876-8
Composed by Timo
Alakotila. Classical,
contemporary, folk. Score
& parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-876-8. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-876-8).
Timo
Alakotila's String
quartet no. 4 (2022) was
premiered by Tempera
Quartet. In its four
movements the work
combines the rich sound
of the classical string
quartet with rhythms and
idioms of Finnish folk
music. The titles of the
movements decribe the
journey (Quest - Joy -
Direction -
Resolution).
This
product includes a full
score and a set of
parts.
Composer,
musician Timo Alakotila
(b. 1959) is a
distinguished, active and
versatile talent in the
Finnish music scene whose
long career working with
different genres of music
- folk music in
particular - has been
ground-breaking.
Alakotila's works
showcase his versatility:
he has produced highly
acclaimed classical music
compositions and
arrangements for Pekka
and Jaakko Kuusisto, the
Meta4 quartet, the Kamus
and Tempera quartets,
Eeva Oksala, Dalia
Stasevska and Jorma
Hynninen, among
others.
Composed by Robert
Schumann. Arranged by
Eric Vireton. Classical,
Chamber Music. Score and
Set of Parts. FLEX
Editions #FX070838.
Published by FLEX
Editions (FL.FX070838).
Composed
by Gene Pritsker.
Ensembles - Chamber
Music. Score & Parts.
Duration 5'22. Periferia
Publishing #CM3224PM.
Published by Periferia
Publishing (AY.CM3224PM).
ISBN
9790543573703.
The
great American
philosopher William James
talks about a credit
system of truth in which
we take for granted the
knowledge of the world
around us. For instance
as a child you learn what
a car is, what it looks
like, what it does, what
its made of, etc. So,
every time you see a car
you do not need to re
examine all these
aspects,you use a credit
of truth to know about
all cars what you learned
about the first. I found
this fascinating and made
it a challenge for myself
to translate this
sentiment into music. In
my string quartet a
melody is repeated many
times but each time its
reality is a bit
different, you think you
know this melody at one
point but the music
around it and its
structure are always
mutated a bit to
challenge your credit
system of truth. Gene
Pritsker.
Parts. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Edited by Anselm Gerhard. Henle...(+)
Parts. Composed by
Giuseppe
Verdi (1813-1901). Edited
by
Anselm Gerhard. Henle
Music
Folios. Classical.
Softcover.
69 pages. G. Henle
#HN1588.
Published by G. Henle
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 No.4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: BT.WH31498 Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Sco...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: BT.WH31498
Composed by Hans
Abrahamsen. Score Only.
Composed 2013. 42 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH31498. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(BT.WH31498).
ISBN
9788759824603.
English.
String
Quartet No.4 was composed
by Hans Abrahamsen in
2012. Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
Arditti Quartet.
Programme note: The basic
idea for my Fourth String
Quartet was very clear to
me: It should be quiet
and soft music or to put
it in a german term: hoch
im Himmel gesungen ...
(â€High singing in
heaven…â€).
Each of the four
movements has a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins
like my work
â€Schneeâ€
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
â€movement and
joyâ€-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longerin
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
â€Dark, heavy and
earthy†is the
third movement and its
pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like
â€babblingâ€
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckyly after
twenty years it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage für Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.PB-5622-07 Urtext. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.PB-5622-07
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
bid a brilliant farewell
to Weimar.
Romantic
period. Study Score. 176
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5622-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622-07).
ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches.
With his
first String Quartet in D
minor, op. 77, composed
in 1855, the native Swiss
composer Joachim Raff bid
a brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality.
Squish! Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
String Quartet SKU: BT.MUSM570367399 King Kong's Love Song. Compos...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BT.MUSM570367399
King Kong's Love
Song. Composed by
Sadie Harrison. Score
Only. 15 pages.
University of York Music
Press #MUSM570367399.
Published by University
of York Music Press
(BT.MUSM570367399).
English.
Sadie
Harrison 's Squish! (King
Kong's Love Song) for
String Quartet. Composed
and published 2016.
Dedicated to Cuatro
Puntos and The American
School for the Deaf.
Squish! is a love story,
King Kong’s love
story. But not the
conventional one
immortalised in the 1933
Hollywood film - the
terrifying giant ape
astride the Empire State
Building who clasps the
fainting heroine, while
swiping hopelessly at the
planes which eventually
send him crashing dead to
the ground. This is the
American Sign Language
(ASL) version which has
something of a twist at
the end. Squish! was
written as
Composer-in-Residence
with Cuatro Puntos and
was commissioned with
funds from the
Connecticut Officeof the
Arts. The premiere took
place at the American
School for the Deaf (the
oldest permanent school
for the deaf in the
United States founded in
1817) in West Hartford,
Connecticut, on 7th
December 2016.
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14042077 Score. Composed by Pelle G...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14042077
Score. Composed by
Pelle
Gudmundsen-holmgreen.
Music Sales America.
Contemporary. Softcover.
Composed 2012. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH31465.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14042077).