Bella Ciao Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - late intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1206263-070 Arranged by An...(+)
String Quartet - late
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1206263-070
Arranged by Anthony
Gröger. De Haske Pops
for String Quartet. Folk
Music. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2020. 8
pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1206263-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1206263-070).
ISBN 9789043159111.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
‘Bella
Ciao’ originated
as an Italian folk song,
stemming all the way from
the late 19th century.
Many versions have since
appeared over the years,
but the song now has a
new lease of life owing
to a new dance adaption
as well as its feature as
the theme for the Netflix
series La Casa de
Papel, which has
inspired Anthony
Gröger to create this
dynamic arrangement for
string
quartet.
Bella Ciao
ist ursprünglich ein
italienisches Volkslied
aus dem späten 19.
Jahrhundert. Im Laufe der
Jahrzehnte sind
zahlreiche Versionen
erschienen; in
jüngster Zeit ist das
Lied durch eine neue
Tanzadaption und die
Verwendung als Thema
für die Netflix-Serie
La casa de papel
(Haus des Geldes“)
wieder aufgelebt. Das
wiederum hat Anthony
Gröger dazu
inspiriert, dieses neue
dynamische Arrangement
für Streichquartett zu
schreiben.
Set
(Score & Parts). 106
pages. Bote & Bock
#BB3474. Published by
Bote & Bock (BT.BB3474).
ISBN
9783793141716.
F
or Isang
Yun, String
Quartet No. 3 from 1959
marked the beginning of
his European creative
phase and of his official
canon of works. Now it is
possible to encounter
Yun's early works from
his Korean period inthe
form of his String
Quartet No. 1
(1955). Three important
10-minute movements
containing references not
only to Asia but also to
Ravel, Bartók and
Eastern European folk
music and having an
idiosyncraticstructure:
Yun lines up forms and
figures, makes them
emerge from each other in
a contrasting manner and
assembles them into a
mosaic-like whole,
seeking for integration,
laying down his material
in layer upon layer and
endingthemovements with a
rhythmic unison.
[…] Even then, he
probably regarded a work
of art as an energetic
stream of sounds and as a
reflection of a world
whose diverging parts
weave into a harmonic
whole.
(Walter-WolfgangSparrer)<
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We Are The Champions Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Facile De Haske Publications
String Quartet - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1185965-070 As Perform...(+)
String Quartet - early
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1185965-070
As Performed by
Queen. Composed by
Freddie Mercury. Arranged
by Anthony Gröger. De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet. Pop and Rock.
Set (Score and Parts).
Composed 2018. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1185965-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1185965-070).
ISBN 9789043154505.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Queen are known
not only for their
stylistic diversity, but
also for their
over-the-top theatrics
during concerts and in
videos. This helped give
them the staying power to
have hit songs for over
twenty years! One of
their biggest, instantly
recognised hits is the
rock-anthem We Are the
Champions, written by
Freddie Mercury. This
monster hit is now
available in an energetic
string quartet
arrangement by Anthony
Gröger.
Queen
is niet alleen gekend om
hun muziek in diverse
stijlen, maar ook om hun
theatrale uitvoeringen
tijdens concerten en in
videoclips. Een van hun
grootste hits is het
rocknummer We Are the
Champions, geschreven
door Freddie Mercury.
Deze monsterhit is nu
beschikbaar in een
meesleepend arrangement
voor strijkkwartet
bewerkt door Anthony
Gröger.
Neben
der stilistischen
Vielseitigkeit ist das
Theatralische und
Pompöse eines der
Erkennungsmerkmale der
Musik von Queen und zwar
offensichtlich durchaus
im positiven Sinne, wie
der zeitlose Erfolg ihrer
Hits beweist! Ein
Paradebeispiel dafu r ist
die Rockhymne We Are
the Champions aus der
Feder von Freddie
Mercury, die nun in einer
mitreiÃ?enden
Streichquartettbearbeitun
g von Anthony Gröger
vorliegt.
Composer's notes: This piece came about in a rather unusual way. I had a dream i...(+)
Composer's notes: This
piece came about in a
rather unusual way. I had
a dream in which a string
quartet were playing some
very beautiful music. I
was exhorting them to
'play it like late
Beethoven' When I woke
up, I could not remember
any themes or details of
what they had been
playing, but had an
intense memory of the
'feeling' of the music,
which was soft, sensual
and muted, and I
immediately sat down to
write a string quartet.
What began to emerge was
nothing like Beethoven at
all, and very early into
the writing I had a
strong vision of some
people dancing a formal
and intense series of
dances in a village in a
very dry and hot
landscape - the
Australian outback or
Africa maybe. The dances
were very moving, with an
inward, ritualistic
quality and they
obviously had great
meaning for the people
performing them. Geoffrey
Burgon
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
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.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14031816 Composed by Jean Joubert. Music Sales Ame...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14031816
Composed
by Jean Joubert. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV12053901.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14031816).
8.5x11.75x0.3
inches.
Though
conceived as four
separate movements, my
second string quartet has
a single motif which is
common to them all. This
is the three-note Muss es
sein? from Beethoven's
last quartet, Op. 135.
But whereas Beethoven's
theme is notated G E A
flat, thus giving it an F
minor connotation, I have
sued an alternative
spelling - G E G sharp -
which suggests an
ambiguous E minor-major.
This ambiguity, in fact,
becomes the tonal basis
of the whole work, only
to be resolved at the end
of the final movement.
Each movement begins with
a variant of the basic
motif on the cello. The
first has the original
form of the theme, while
the second has a
majorised version which
is also expressed as a
chord. The third
movement, with its
scherzoid middle section,
reverts to the
major-minor ambiguity of
the first, and the finale
begins with the majorised
version as an ostinato
accompaniment on
pizzicato cello. The slow
movement is sub-titled In
memoriam DSCH and
concludes with a
quotation of
Shostakovich's motto - D
E flat C B - which is
basically the same as
Beethoven's with the
addition of one note.
This is not to imply that
the work contains no
other thematic material.
One important theme, a
rising fifth and a
second, is also common to
three of the movements,
and is ultimately derived
from my first quartet,
Op. 1 of 27 years
earlier, to which this
second contribution to
the form is in many ways
like a sequel. Like the
earlier work, too, this
quartet is dedicated to
my wife.
Horovitz composed this work during February and March 1969 as a tribute to E. H....(+)
Horovitz composed this
work during February and
March 1969 as a tribute
to E. H. Gombrich on his
60th birthday. In this
one-movement quartet the
opening thematic material
is deliberately based on
the decadent chromatic
gestures prevalent in
early twentieth century
Viennese music. Healthier
diatonic discords tear
into these themes during
a long development
section, and, in a way,
finally cleanse them. The
melodies of the first
section are entirely
based on the intervals of
the third and sixth, but
with garish appendages of
extra chromaticism
(produced by means of
bi-tonality between the
upper and lower
instruments). After the
conflict these intervals
emerge in their true and
elemental role as
essential pillars of a
major key