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Earth part 2 (Piano Quintet) - Score and Parts
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.895372 Composed by Chris Richardson. 20th Century,Contemporar...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.895372 Composed by Chris Richardson. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 35 pages. Christopher Richardson #6025991. Published by Christopher Richardson (A0.895372). For Piano, Violin 1 & 2, viola and cello. Piano Quintet or Piano & small String Orchestra. A classical/post-minimalist composition that builds with gradual crescendo over a repeating piano polyrhythmic pattern. The string parts weave in an out of each other exchanging motifs while gradually building in intensity. .
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Letters Of A Traveller
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Olafur Arnalds
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Letters Of A Traveller
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845453 Composed by Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Conte...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845453 Composed by Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Contemporary. Score and parts. 21 pages. Musikeo #6363077. Published by Musikeo (A0.845453). Born 3 November 1986, Olafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore / metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.This song is based on a Db Chopin Piano Prelude. The arrangement here follows in all detail the original song, with the piano as the main leading instrument in the firts part and the strings added later on. Then, violins viola and cellos appear and take an accompaniment role for the piano througought the song.Easy to play song with interesting moments for all instruments. Score and Individual Parts are provided. Enjoy!
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Reminiscence
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Olafur Arnalds
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Reminiscence
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845452 Composed by Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Conte...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845452 Composed by Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Contemporary. Score and parts. 25 pages. Musikeo #6363087. Published by Musikeo (A0.845452). Born 3 November 1986, Olafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore / metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.This song is based on a C# minor Chopin Piano Nocturne. The arrangement here follows in all detail the original song, with the piano as the main leading instrument in the firts part and the strings added later on. Then, violins viola and cellos appear and take an accompaniment role for the piano througought the song.Easy to play song with interesting moments for all instruments. Score and Individual Parts are provided. Enjoy!
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Tomorrow's Song
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Martin Jacoby
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Musikeo
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Tomorrow's Song
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Musikeo
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845447 By Martin Jacoby. By Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musik...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845447 By Martin Jacoby. By Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Contemporary. Score and parts. 11 pages. Musikeo #6362249. Published by Musikeo (A0.845447). Born 3 November 1986, Olafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore / metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.This song Tomorrow's Song is part of his 2011 collection: Living Room Songs. The arrangement here follows in all detail the original song, with the piano as the main leading instrument but with a string quartet added. So, violins viola and cello appear and take an accompaniment role with pizz and bow used througought the song. Easy to play song with interesting moments for all instruments. Score and Parts are provided. Enjoy!
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Frysta
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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EASY
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Contemporary
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Olafur Arnalds
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Musikeo
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Frysta
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Musikeo
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SheetMusicPlus
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845448 By Olafur Arnalds. By Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musi...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845448 By Olafur Arnalds. By Olafur Arnalds. Arranged by Musikeo. Contemporary. Score and parts. 13 pages. Musikeo #6362889. Published by Musikeo (A0.845448). Born 3 November 1986, Olafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore / metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.This song Fyrsta is part of his 2011 collection: Living Room Songs. The arrangement here follows in all detail the original song, with the piano as the main leading instrument in the firts part and the string quartet added later on. So, violins viola and cello appear and take a conversational role with the piano througought the song. Easy to play song with interesting moments for all instruments. Score and Parts are provided. Enjoy!
$12.99
Falada
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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EASY
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Contemporary
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Sarah Wallin Huff and Sarah Wa
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Falada
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Novel Soundtrax
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SheetMusicPlus
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.800373 Composed by Sarah Wallin Huff and Sarah Wallin Huff. 2...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.800373 Composed by Sarah Wallin Huff and Sarah Wallin Huff. 20th Century,New Age. Score and parts. 24 pages. Novel Soundtrax #3014323. Published by Novel Soundtrax (A0.800373). Falada is a compilation-piece from two of Wallin Huff's earliest works: The Dove (1998) and The Old Music Box (2001). Together, this work for piano and string trio (violin, viola, and cello) evokes the mood of a storyteller weaving ancient tales that remind the listener of humankind's shared history.
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Funny Like a Monkey for piano quartet
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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ADVANCED
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Robert M
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Funny Like a Monkey for piano
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Robert M. Greenberg
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SheetMusicPlus
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987845 Composed by Robert M. Greenberg. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 10...
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987845 Composed by Robert M. Greenberg. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 105 pages. Robert M. Greenberg #90267. Published by Robert M. Greenberg (A0.987845). Preferred Contact Information: RMonteverdi@comcast.net Performing Rights Organization: BMI Website: robertgreenbergmusic.com Facebook Band Page: facebook.com/RobertGreenbergMusic Video: movement 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abie7jcHVA0 movement 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b__yWnl7LcU movement 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8V3g4AC0eM Duration: ca. 17 minutes Year of composition: 2001 Program Note: I. Knock Yourself Out II. Flutterby III. Morph (with apologies to J. B.) Funny Like a Monkey is one of the many phrases coined by my then 16 year-old daughter in order to address the actions and well-intended attempts at humor by both her younger brother and her hopelessly antiquated father. What I love about these phrases – of which Funny Like a Monkey is but one of many – is their use of nonsequitur elevated to high verbal art. They are at once biting and humorous, and are filled with the sort of over-the-top verbal bravado that only a teenager, as the self-acknowledged epitome of hip, can get away with. Though Funny Like a Monkey is scored as a traditional piano quartet, it is in reality composed for string trio PLUS piano. Along with being part of the larger ensemble, the piano has a featured role in the piece: it is narrator, commentator, curmudgeon, critic, and emcee, as it introduces and comments upon the relative merits of the musical materials that comprise the work. The first movement is entitled Knock Yourself Out. The movement’s energy and exuberance, as well as its mercurial-shift-on-a-dime nature is a rather personal reference to the dedicatee. The second movement is entitled Flutterby. A spoonerism created (or at least favored) by my daughter, the reference is to a sort of macro- butterfly, a mega-mariposa, if you will, one of extraordinary beauty and delicacy that floats and drifts and shimmers in some imagined place. The third movement, Morph, With Apologies to J.B. refers to the rather obvious fact that the music keeps morphing in and out of the finale of Johannes Brahms’ (J.B.’s) Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25. I’m crazy about Brahms’ piano quartets, and I have surrendered to the urge to mess with his pitch collections and thematic motives. The movement, with its musical puns, metamorphoses, and attempts at humor, is a perfect example of what might be referred to as funny like a monkey. Funny . . . is dedicated, with love, to Rachel Amy Greenberg on the occasion of her 16th birthday.
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