Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.14440516S

Composed by Robert Martin. Full score. With Standard notation. 44 pages. Duration 9 minutes, 15 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #144-40516S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440516S).

UPC: 680160667864. 9 x 12 inches.

In 1979, Martin produced a set of three quintets, in consideration of Gorky's piece Nighttime Enigma Nostalgia. Each is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. As the title suggests, the music is in a state of perpetual questioning using a variety of approaches. For example, Enigma opens using ostinati (plural of ostinato) that do not match in length, like a staircase with each step a different height. Additionally, the music has sudden starts and stops, again unexplained. There are dramatic and powerful explosive passages that are interrupted. The technique, used to create this feeling of a perplexed music world where things seem often not to make sense and to be left unresolved, is called in poetry and literature, anticlimax. In Enigma, the music suggests one direction; then refuses to continue, striking out in another direction. Artists use approaches such as this to force themselves into creative circumstances that they otherwise might not have discovered. (From the performance notes.).

Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.14440517S

Composed by Robert Martin. Full score. With Standard notation. 20 pages. Theodore Presser Company #144-40517S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440517S).

UPC: 680160667888. 9 x 12 inches.

In 1979, Martin produced a set of three quintets, in consideration of Gorky's piece Nighttime Enigma Nostalgia. Each is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. There are passages in Nostalgia that build using two layers, a louder foreground and a quieter background. Both of these layers are independent of specific instruments, in other words, the various instruments jump in to play a role in either layer, then jump to the other layer. It is as if the ensemble has doubled. The technical musical term for multiple instruments interweaving to produce a single thread or idea is called Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-color-melody). Because there are two layers (louder and softer), both using this technique, Nostalgia is a unique example of 'double Klangfarbenmelodie.' The piece ends with a series of intense rhythmic pulsations and several apocalyptic fanfares. (From the performance notes.).

Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.14440515S

Composed by Robert Martin. Full score. With Standard notation. 48 pages. Theodore Presser Company #144-40515S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440515S).

UPC: 680160667819. 9 x 12 inches.

In 1979, Martin produced a set of three quintets, in consideration of Gorky's piece Nighttime Enigma Nostalgia. Each is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. One role of music is to evoke. Therefore, Nighttime is a nocturne, a night piece suggestive of flickering shadows, perhaps created by firelight. It is a recurrent setting in human existence. The music opens with the scene of twilight calm, gently disturbed with the slight uncertainty about what is around us, what we cannot see. Later, the clarinet takes on a solo role, and the notes bleed like careless paint into the other instruments that quietly sustain them. Next, the flute takes over the role of solo. The piece ends with a repeated cadence of morning light. (From the performance notes.).

Edited by Gail Acosta. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For Violin and Piano. Solos. Recital. Level: Intermediate. Piano Score and Solo Part. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing.

(Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) Composed by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Set of performance parts for violin and piano. With bowings and fingerings. 14 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.