By Stan Getz and Beaux Arts String Ensemble. By Eddie Sauter. Edited by Rob Dubo...(+)
By Stan Getz and Beaux
Arts String Ensemble. By
Eddie Sauter. Edited by
Rob Duboff, Jeffrey
Sultanof, Alex Chilowicz,
and Andrew Homzy.
Arranged by Eddie Sauter.
For string ensemble
(score and parts)
(Soloist (parts in
concert, B-flat, and
E-flat), Violin I (8
parts), Violin II (8
parts), Viola (5 Parts),
Cello (5 Parts) , Double
Bass (3 Parts), Harp,
Piano/Celeste, Percussion
(Snare Drum, Marimba,
Tambourine)). Advanced.
Score and parts.
Published by Jazz Lines
Publications
Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orch...(+)
Arranged by Bob Phillips.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles;
String Orchestra. Sound
Innovations for String
Orchestra. Folk; Light
Concert. Part(s); Score.
80 pages. Duration 1:55.
Alfred Music #00-41245.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.41245).
(Score and Parts). Composed by Antonio Capuzzi. For String Quintet (Score and Pa...(+)
(Score and Parts).
Composed by Antonio
Capuzzi. For String
Quintet (Score and
Parts). G Schirmer String
Ensemble. Softcover.
Schott Music #ED21232.
Published by Schott Music
Composed by Bud Woodruff.
SWS. Full score. With
Standard notation. 16
pages. Duration 2
minutes, 55 seconds. Carl
Fischer Music #CAS98F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CAS98F).
ISBN 9781491146934.
UPC: 680160904433. 9 x 12
inches.
About Carl
Fischer Concert String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of pieces (Grade
3 and higher) is designed
for advancing ensembles.
The pieces in this series
are characterized
by:
Expanded use
of rhythms, ranges and
keys but technical
demands are still
carefully
considered
More
comprehensive bowing
techniques
Viola
T.C.
included
Careful
selection of keys and
degree of difficulty for
advancing
musicians
Let Our Gladness Have No End Chorale SATB SATB, Cordes [Octavo] - Intermédiaire/avancé MorningStar Music Publishers
By Mark Sedio. For SATB divisi, Violin, and Harp or Keyboard. Advent/Christmas. ...(+)
By Mark Sedio. For SATB
divisi, Violin, and Harp
or Keyboard.
Advent/Christmas. Level:
Moderately Difficult.
Choral Score. Published
by MorningStar Music
Publishers.
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,”
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,
“Vistas”, 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’
“proper”
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:Ă‚Â 1)
Concentric:Ă‚Â from the
inside outĂ‚Â 2)Ă‚Â
StasisĂ‚Â 3) FlashesĂ‚Â
4) Vista.Ă‚Â 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.Ă‚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.Ă‚Â 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
light”, but also a
“brief
time”. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile”?Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlook”, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.” 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.Ă‚Â But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Ă‚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.Ă‚Â 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.
(Full Score and Parts). By Alan Lee Silva. String orchestra. For String Orchestr...(+)
(Full Score and Parts).
By Alan Lee Silva. String
orchestra. For String
Orchestra. Carl Fischer
Concert String Orchestra
Series. Classical. Medium
Easy/Medium. Score and
Parts. Standard notation.
16 pages. Published by
Carl Fischer . Score and
Parts. classical.
Und Doch... Quatuor Ă cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Bote and Bock
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.48025044 String...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.48025044
String Quartet Score
and Parts. Composed
by Iris ter Schiphorst.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 80 pages.
Duration 520 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535967.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025044).
UPC:
196288021735.
For
its farewell season after
35 years, the Nomos
Quartet from Hanover
created a concert series
in 2019 around the works
by Ludwig van Beethoven,
who had set standards in
the field of string
quartets. For this event,
the ensemble commissioned
a new work from Irister
Schiphorst, in which the
composer at first studied
Beethoven's first
contribution to the
genre. However, her
distance from the
reference piece became
greater than initially
planned, and the question
that moved centre-stage
was: 'How does
Beethoven's music
resonate in me at all? Is
it musical gestures,
themes or moods?' The
tonal result of this
composing
self-exploration is -
rich in contrast, often
noise-like and pushing
the dynamic range to its
limits - the personal
reformulation of
Beethovian 'pathos
formulas',i. e. signs of
passionate experience
embodied in the universal
cultural heritage.
Composed by Thom Sharp.
Performance Music
Ensemble; String
Orchestra. Ludwig
Masters. Multicultural.
Score and Part(s). Latham
Music Enterprises
#36-52250936. Published
by Latham Music
Enterprises
(AP.36-52250936).
ISBN
9781628766424. UPC:
746241252067.
English.
Here's a
lighter number that's
ideal for pops concerts,
multicultural events, or
any time you want to
program a little Latin
music into your concerts!
Calling for
optional percussion part
of guiro, this music
features a syncopated
melody that uses lots of
"off-the-string"
; bowing. It's sure
to make your strings
produce a clean, crisp
sound.
These products
are currently being
prepared by a new
publisher. While many
items are ready and will
ship on time, some others
may see delays of several
months.
Harp, Flute, Clarinet, String Quartet SKU: HL.14023298 Composed by Per No...(+)
Harp, Flute, Clarinet,
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14023298
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Score.
Music Sales #KP01431.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14023298).
ISBN
9788759871591.
English.
Per
Norgard 's Gennem Torne /
Through Thorns (2003)
Harp Concerto No. 2 -
Passage for Harp Solo
with Flute, Clarinet and
String Quartet. Premiered
by Tine Rehling (Harp)
and the Esbjerg Ensemble,
conducted by Kaisa Roose
at the Concert Hall of
the Western Jutland
Academy of Music,
Esbjerg, 28th January
2004. Programme Note
THROUGH THORNS has a
duration of about 20
minutes, in one
continuous movement, thus
the subtitle passage. The
work is scored for harp
solo, flute, clarinet and
string quartet. The title
is borrowed from the
lines from an old Virgin
Mary Hymn: Mary wanders
through thorns, a hymn
which ends with the
following line: then
roses grew forth amongst
thethorns. I only came
across the poem after
finishing the
composition, the passage
of which is a journey of
sometimes dramatic
events, concluding with a
rose-blooming, as does
the hymn. For
THROUGH THORNS to borrow
its title from a Virgin
Mary Hymn has to do with
the musical material and
current of the piece,
which brings motives from
an earlier choral piece
of mine, FLOS UT ROSA
(Latin for a flower like
a rose), and the rose in
question is of course the
one which grew forth when
the Virgin Mary gave
birth to the Infant Jesus
in a hitherto unheard-of
fashion, a NOVA GENITURA
(new birth), which is the
title of another work of
mine that also derives
its material from my
original rose-melody from
1975. THROUGH
THORNS is dedicated to
Tine Rehling, and
together with her I have
tried to expand the
sonorities of the harp,
by exploring existing
techniques and their more
remote regions, in order
to gain access to new
territory and new
soundscaoes, as realised
by the constantly
experimentally-minded and
virtuoso player.
Per Norgard, 2004.
 .
Compatible with any and all instruments in this series for trios. Compose...(+)
Compatible with any
and all instruments in
this series for
trios. Composed by
Mykola D. Leontovich /
Peter J. Wilhousky.
Arranged by Larry Clark.
Performance score. With
Standard notation. 4
pages. Carl Fischer
#MXE0090. Published by
Carl Fischer (CF.MXE90).
Composed by Muzio
Clementi. Arranged by
Douglas Townsend. Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra Series.
Classical. Full score.
With Standard notation.
12 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #YAS13F. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.YAS13F).
ISBN
9780825848339. UPC:
798408048334. 8.5 X 11
inches. Key: G
major.
IApart from
some of his Sonatinas,
Opus 36, Clementi's life
and music are hardly
known to the piano
teachers and students of
today. For example, in
addition to the above
mentioned Sonatinas,
Clementi wrote sixty
sonatas for the piano,
many of them unjustly
neglected, although his
friend Beethoven regarded
some of them very highly.
Clementi also wrote
symphonies (some of which
he arranged as piano
sonatas), a substantial
number of waltzes and
other dances for the
piano as well as sonatas
and sonatinas for piano
four-hands.In addition to
composing, Clementi was a
much sought after piano
teacher, and included
among his students John
Field (Father of the
'Nocturne'), and
Meyerbeer.In his later
years, Clementi became a
very successful music
publisher, publishing
among other works the
first English edition of
Beethoven's Violin
Concerto, in the great
composer's own
arrangement for the
piano, as well as some of
his string quartets.
Clementi was also one of
the first English piano
manufacturers to make
pianos with a metal frame
and string them with
wire.The Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 was one of
six such works Clementi
wrote in 1797. He must
have been partial to
these little pieces (for
which he also provided
the fingerings), since
they were reissued
(without the fingering)
by the composer shortly
after 1801. About 1820,
he issued ''the sixth
edition, with
considerable improvements
by the author;· with
fingerings added and
several minor changes,
among which were that
many of them were written
an octave higher.IIIt has
often been said,
generally by those
unhampered by the facts,
that composers of the
past (and, dare we add,
the present?), usually
handled their financial
affairs with their public
and publishers with a
poor sense of business
acumen or common sense.
As a result they
frequently found
themselves in financial
straits.Contrary to
popular opinion, this was
the exception rather than
the rule. With the
exception of Mozart and
perhaps a few other
composers, the majority
of composers then, as
now, were quite
successful in their
dealings with the public
and their publishers, as
the following examples
will show.It was not
unusual for 18th- and
19th-century composers to
arrange some of their
more popular compositions
for different
combinations of
instruments in order to
increase their
availability to a larger
music-playing public.
Telemann, in the
introduction to his
seventy-two cantatas for
solo voice and one melody
instrument (flute, oboe
or violin, with the usual
continua) Der Harmonische
Gottesdienst, tor
example, suggests that if
a singer is not available
to perform a cantata the
voice part could be
played by another
instrument. And in the
introduction to his Six
Concertos and Six Suites
for flute, violin and
continua, he named four
different instrumental
combinations that could
perform these pieces, and
actually wrote out the
notes for the different
possibilities. Bach
arranged his violin
concertos for keyboard,
and Beethoven not only
arranged his Piano Sonata
in E Major, Opus 14, No.
1 for string quartet, he
also transposed it to the
key of F. Brahm's
well-known Quintet in F
Minor for piano and
strings was his own
arrangement of his
earlier sonata for two
pianos, also in F
Minor.IIIWe come now to
Clementi. It is well
known that some of his
sixty piano sonatas were
his own arrangements of
some of his lost
symphonies, and that some
of his rondos for piano
four-hands were
originally the last
movements of his solo
sonatas or piano trios.In
order to make the first
movement of his
delightful Sonatina in C,
Opus 36, No. 1 accessible
to young string players,
I have followed the
example established by
the composer himself by
arranging and transposing
one of his piano
compositions from one
medium (the piano) to
another. (string
instruments). In order to
simplify the work for
young string players, in
the process of adapting
it to the new medium it
was necessary to
transpose it from the
original key of C to G,
thereby doing away with
some of the difficulties
they would have
encountered in the
original key. The first
violin and cello parts
are similar to the right-
and left-hand parts of
the original piano
version. The few changes
I have made in these
parts have been for the
convenience of the string
players, but in no way do
they change the nature of
the music.Since the
original implied a
harmonic framework in
many places, I have added
a second violin and viola
part in such a way that
they not only have
interesting music to
play, but also fill in
some of the implied
harmony without in any
way detracting from the
composition's musical
value. Occasionally, it
has been necessary to
raise or lower a few
passages an octave or to
modify others slightly to
make them more accessible
for young players.It is
hoped that the musical
value of the composition
has not been too
compromised, and that
students and teachers
will come to enjoy this
little piece in its new
setting as much as
pianists have in the
original one. This
arrangement may also be
performed by a solo
string quartet. When
performed by a string
orchestra, the double
bass part may be
omitted.- Douglas
TownsendString editing by
Amy Rosen.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
over beginning levels
Orchestra String Orchestra - Grade 2-2.5 SKU: CF.YAS1 Composed by Sean O'...(+)
Orchestra String
Orchestra - Grade 2-2.5
SKU: CF.YAS1
Composed by Sean
O'Loughlin. Carl Fischer
Young String Orchestra
Series. Classical. Score
and Parts. With Standard
notation. 8+8+5+2+5+5+2+8
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#YAS1. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.YAS1).
ISBN 9780825840630.
UPC: 798408040635. 8.5 X
11 inches. Key: G
major.
Moonlight
Shadows is a passionate
and colorful piece for
strings that explores the
expressive power of the
string orchestra. Sean
O'Loughlin uses a lush
harmonic palette and
variety of texture
(including a short
pizzicato section), to
create an important and
soulful addition to the
repertoire for younger
string ensembles.
Duration:
2'30. Moonlight
Shadows is a work for
string orchestra that
reflects my great love
for the music of Samuel
Barber. His compositions
from the 1930s and 1940s
were characterized by
plush harmonies, flowing
melodies and engaging
suspensions. These
elements are what I
focused on in the
composition
of Moonlight
Shadows.The material
represents my mood and
feelings when I look at a
big, bright moon. The
shadows it casts create
an eerie feeling, while
at the same time
providing a deep, rich
tapestry for the earth at
night.The harmony
features many major
seventh-chords with
half-step suspensions.
These suspensions
function as common tones
to the next chord and
create the tension of the
piece. They also move, in
order to provide
resolution to the piece
which allows the listener
to rest. With this in
mind, these suspensions
should be brought out
during
performance.Moonlight
Shadows is an emotional
piece that allows the
young musician the
opportunity to play with
much expression.
About Carl
Fischer Young String
Orchestra
Series
Thi
s series of Grade 2/Grade
2.5 pieces is designed
for second and third year
ensembles. The pieces in
this series are
characterized
by: --Occasionally
extending to third
position --Keys
carefully considered for
appropriate
difficulty --Addition
of separate 2nd violin
and viola
parts --Viola T.C.
part
included --Increase
in independence of parts
over beginning levels
String Quartet (ob,bsn,vc,pno) SKU: BR.EB-9430 Composed by Rainer Sievers...(+)
String Quartet
(ob,bsn,vc,pno)
SKU:
BR.EB-9430
Composed
by Rainer Sievers.
Chamber music; Folder.
Edition Breitkopf. Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Performance
score. Composed 2021. 30
pages. Duration 4'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9430. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9430).
ISBN
9790004189078. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Miniatur:
Ein komplettes Ganzes in
kleiner Dimension (Zwerg,
Bonsai). Oder ein
reprasentativer Teil vom
Ganzen ( pars pro toto ).
Oder das Wesen des Ganzen
(Essenz). Oder die Idee
von etwas Grosserem, ein
Plan oder eine Intuition
- etwas, das entfaltet
beziehungsweise ausgelegt
werden will (Samen,
Aphorismus)?... Miniatur
ist kurzer als die Worte
uber sie. Rainer
Sievers
World
premiere: Freiburg,
September 17, 2021
(Ensemble Aventure).
Composed by Julie Lyonn
Lieberman. Solo or
Ensemble. Apex String
Orchestra. Score and
parts. Duration 3
minutes, 35 seconds.
Kendor Music Inc #9833.
Published by Kendor Music
Inc (KN.9833).
UPC:
822795098334.
This
multi-faceted musical
canvas presents a number
of signature themes and
moods that can portray
specific characters and
scenes invented by your
students during
rehearsals. It includes
popular components found
in the music that
accompanies visual story
mediums like TV, games,
and movies. A
downloadable lesson plan
with suggested
activities, as well as a
backup track for practice
and performance, is
available from the
composer's website.
Duration 3:55.
(Haydn Quartets) Study
Score. Composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Edited by Wolf-Dieter
Seiffert. Study Score.
Paperbound. Henle Music
Folios. Classical.
Softcover. 192 pages. G.
Henle #HN7122. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51487122).
ISBN
9790201871226. UPC:
888680950736.
6.5x9.25x0.524
inches.
Each of
these four-movement works
is a real jewel. Mozart
worked hard on these six
string quartets, and
dedicated them to none
other than the
“inventor” of
the genre himself: Joseph
Haydn. They were first
published in 1785, and
have since then been
reprinted innumerable
times. Wolf-Dieter
Seiffert, the editor of
this new Henle Urtext
edition, already penned
the Critical Report for
these Haydn Quartets in
the New Mozart Edition,
25 years ago. He is now
presenting this core
repertoire in an edition
of its own. This Urtext
edition clarifies
numerous inaccuracies in
other editions,
especially with regard to
dynamics and
articulation, and even
corrects a few wrong
notes that had gone
unnoticed up to now.
Special attention has
here been paid to making
the music as easy-to-read
as possible, with ideally
placed page turns.
String Quartet
Score. Composed by
Shin-Ichiro Ikebe. String
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 28 pages.
Duration 600 seconds.
Zen-On #ZN590228.
Published by Zen-On
(HL.49045762).
ISBN
9784115902282.
8.25x11.75x0.1
inches.
This is the
eleventh work in my
chamber music series,
STRATA, and my fourth
string quartet following
STRATA I, V, and IX. This
series started in 1988
based on the idea of
regarding registers as
strata (the plural form
of stratum), from which
the title in derived.
While I continue to write
pieces, however, the
initial concept changed
in various aspects. This
time, I returned to the
original idea To put it
simply, I restarted from
STRATA I. I used the same
instruments and stared at
strara created by the
four string parts. That
became the act of
composing STRATA XI. The
work doesn't have
'development' in the
general sense but
represents a panorama of
strata. It consists of
four movements
(fast-slow-fast-slow). In
fact, before writing the
STRATA series, I wrote a
long string quartet when
I was a student, but I
didn't include it in my
list of works. Anyway,
the thought of writing
string quartet has never
disappeared from me. It
alays weighs heavily on
my mind. Shin-Ichiro
Ikebe.
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Composed by Julie Lyonn
Lieberman. Solo or
Ensemble. Apex String
Orchestra. Kendor Music
Inc #09833S. Published by
Kendor Music Inc
(KN.09833S).
UPC:
822795098334.
This
multi-faceted musical
canvas presents a number
of signature themes and
moods that can portray
specific characters and
scenes invented by your
students during
rehearsals. It includes
popular components found
in the music that
accompanies visual story
mediums like TV, games,
and movies. A
downloadable lesson plan
with suggested
activities, as well as a
backup track for practice
and performance, is
available from the
composer's website.
Duration 3:55.