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Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Waltz arr. for piano quartet (score and parts)
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816370 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Julia Samarska. Multicultural,Romantic Period,Standards,World. Score and parts. 32 pages. Julia Samarska #5723191. Published by Julia Samarska (A0.816370). Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Waltz from Act II arranged for piano quartet ensemble - piano, violin, viola, cello (score and parts).
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Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Waltz arr. for piano quartet
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Johann Strauss II - Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz arr. for piano quartet (score and parts)
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816373 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Julia Samarska. Concert,Romantic Period,Standards,World. Score and parts. 48 pages. Julia Samarska #5723203. Published by Julia Samarska (A0.816373). Johann Strauss II - Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz, Op. 325 arranged for piano quartet ensemble - piano, violin, viola, cello (score and parts).
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Johann Strauss II - Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz arr. for piano quartet
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Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz arr. for piano quartet
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816437 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Maksym Kravchenko. Concert,Romantic Period,Standards,World. Score and parts. 40 pages. Julia Samarska #6712281. Published by Julia Samarska (A0.816437). Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz arranged for piano quartet ensemble - piano, violin, viola, cello.
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Johann Strauss Jr
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Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz arr. for piano quartet
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Johann Strauss II - Roses from the South (Rosen aus dem Süden) Waltz for piano quartet
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816404 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Julia Samarska. Multicultural,Romantic Period,Standards,World. Score and parts. 16 pages. Julia Samarska #6493923. Published by Julia Samarska (A0.816404). Johann Strauss II - Roses from the South (Rosen aus dem Süden) Waltz for piano quartet - piano, violin, viola, cello (score and parts).
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Johann Strauss II - Roses from the South
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Julia Samarska
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Johann Strauss II - Thunder and Lightning Polka arr. for piano quartet (score and parts)
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816371 Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by Julia Samarska. Multicultural,Romantic Period,Standards,World. Score and parts. 22 pages. Julia Samarska #5723193. Published by Julia Samarska (A0.816371). Johann Strauss II - Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 324 arranged for piano quartet ensemble - piano, violin, viola, cello (score and parts).
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Johann Strauss II - Thunder and Lightning Polka arr. for piano quartet
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Julia Samarska
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Water Music Suite II HWV 349_ no.15 Alla Hornpipe
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Quartet (Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano) - Primer Level - Digital Download SKU: P5.CL-CLA-…
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Quartet (Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano) - Primer Level - Digital Download SKU: P5.CL-CLA-1035 Composed by George Frideric Handel. Baroque Period. Score and Parts. 21 pages. SheetmusicLAB #CL-CLA-1035. Published by SheetmusicLAB (P5.CL-CLA-1035). 814 x 297 mm inches.
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George Frideric Handel
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Water Music Suite II HWV 349_ no.15 Alla Hornpipe
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Symphony No.94 In G Major II Andante (Short Ver.)
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Quartet (Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano) - Primer Level - Digital Download SKU: P5.CL-CLA-…
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Quartet (Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano) - Primer Level - Digital Download SKU: P5.CL-CLA-14636 Composed by F.J. Haydn. Classical Period. Score and Parts. 12 pages. SheetmusicLAB #CL-CLA-14636. Published by SheetmusicLAB (P5.CL-CLA-14636). 458 x 297 mm inches.
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Symphony No.94 In G Major II Andante
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Johann Strauss II - Mein Herr Marquis (Adele's Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus) arr. for piano qua
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899). Arranged by Julia Samarska. Concert, Roman…
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Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899). Arranged by Julia Samarska. Concert, Romantic Period, Standards, Wedding. Score and parts. 13 pages. Julia Samarska #6734841. Published by Julia Samarska
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Johann Strauss Jr
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Johann Strauss II - Mein Herr Marquis
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Julia Samarska
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Johann Strauss II - "Wine, Women and Song" Waltz arr. for piano quartet
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899). Arranged by Julia Samarska. Romantic Perio…
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Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899). Arranged by Julia Samarska. Romantic Period, Repertoire, Wedding, Recital. Score, Set of Parts. 33 pages. Published by Julia Samarska
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Johann Strauss II - "Wine, Women and Song" Waltz arr. for piano quartet
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Julia Samarska
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Regina
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU…
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Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.555663 By Mary Rounsavall. By Mary Rounsavall. Arranged by Mary Rounsavall. Classical,Instructional. Score and parts. 9 pages. Mary Rounsavall #165233. Published by Mary Rounsavall (A0.555663). This lovely theme was inspired by Queen Elizabeth II and was composed for Piano Quartet. It is also arranged for various other ensembles or solos.
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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Mary Rounsavall
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Regina
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Mary Rounsavall
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Funny Like a Monkey for piano quartet
Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
Piano Quartet,String Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987845 Composed …
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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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Piano Quartet: piano, violin, viola, cello
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Funny Like a Monkey for piano quartet
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