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

By Josef Suk (1874-1935). Edited by Zdenek Nouza. For string quartet. This edition: Urtext edition. Set of parts. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Op. 9, No. 2; Op. 17, No. 5; Op. 50, No. 6; Op. 54, Nos. 1, 2, 3; Op. 64, Nos. 2, 3, 4; Op. 74, Nos. 1, 2, 3; Op. 77, Nos. 1, 2. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Masterworks; Quartet; Solo Small Ensembles; String Quartet. Kalmus Edition. Classical; Masterwork. Book. 292 pages. Kalmus Classic Edition #00-K03543. Published by Kalmus Classic Edition

By Frideric Chopin. Arranged by Art Dedrick. For soprano saxophone (optional alto saxophone), alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, and baritone saxophone. Saxophone Quartet. Level: Grade 2. Published by Kendor Music Inc.

By Dvorak Antonin. Czech title: Smy covy kvartet . 11 C dur op. 61. Published by Praha (Czech import).

Erdody-Quartet No. 2, Op. 76/2, Hob. III: 76. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Arranged by Wilhelm Altmann. Schott. Size 5.25x7.5 inches. 28 pages. Published by Eulenburg.

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.

By Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959). Miniature score for string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello). 67 pages. Published by Praha (Czech import).

Ave Maria by Charles François Gounod. Arranged by David Marlatt. For Saxophone Quartet (AATB). Masterworks; Part(s); Quartet; Score; Woodwind - Saxophone Quartet. Eighth Note Publications. Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. Score and set of parts. Duration 2:15. Published by Eighth Note Publications

Score. By Kurt Weill. (Score). Study Score. 50 pages. Published by Universal Edition.