| More Classical Highlights Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle De Haske Publications
String Quartet or String Orchestra - easy SKU: BT.DHP-1135315-070 Arrange...(+)
String Quartet or String
Orchestra - easy SKU:
BT.DHP-1135315-070
Arranged by Nico Dezaire.
De Haske String Orchestra
Series. Set (Score and
Parts). De Haske
Publications #DHP
1135315-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1135315-070).
ISBN 9789043146814.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch. More
Classical Highlights
is the follow-up to
Classical
Highlights, a
collection featuring
arrangements of classical
themes dating from the
17th century up to
the19th century. The
parts are quite easy and
attractively written, but
the arrangements stay as
faithful as possible to
the original works.
Baroque music is
represented with two
highlights: the
well-known Canon
by Pachelbel may well be
the most performed 17th
century composition. The
power of the piece lies
in a bass line of only
eight notes, above which
the melodic line of the
round itself develops.
Réjouissance
from Music for the
Royal Fireworks is a
very joyful composition
bythe Anglo-German
baroque composer Handel.
The 18th century
classical style gives us
the refined minuet
by Boccherini, the
Italian composer who
wrote a wealth of chamber
music. The 19th century
features in three famous
works: the lively
Marche Militaire No
1 by the Austrian
composer Schubert
originates from 3
Marches Militaires
for four-handed piano.
The Can Can from
Orphée aux
enfers (Orpheus in
the Underworld) is the
best-known separately
performed piece by the
operetta composer
Offenbach. Following this
exciting dance music
there is the beautiful,
lofty Largo theme
from the second movement
of Czech composer
Dvorákâ??s From
the New World
Symphony. In short: Six
varying arrangements -
challenging and very
suitable for
performances!
More Classical
Highlights is het
vervolg op Classical
Highlights, een
verzameling arrangementen
van klassieke thema´s
die dateren uit de
periode van de 17e eeuw
tot en met de 19e eeuw.
De partijen zijn
eenvoudig en
aantrekkelijk geschreven;
tegelijkertijd blijven de
arrangementen dicht bij
het origineel. De
barokmuziek is
vertegenwoordigd met twee
highlights. De bekende
Canon van
Pachelbel is wellicht de
meest gespeelde
17e-eeuwse compositie. De
kracht ervan ligt in een
baslijn van slechts acht
noten waarboven zich het
lijnenspel van de canon
ontspint.
Réjouissance
uit Music for the
Royal Fireworks is
een zeer opgewekte
compositie van
deDuits-Engelse
barokcomponist Händel.
De 18e-eeuwse klassieke
stijl horen we terug in
het verfijnde
menuet van
Boccherini, een
Italiaanse componist die
een schat aan kamermuziek
schreef. De 19e eeuw komt
naar voren in drie
beroemde stukken. De
uitbundige Marche
militaire nr. 1 van
de Oostenrijkse componist
Schubert komt uit 3
Marches militaires
voor vierhandig piano. De
Can Can uit
Orphée aux
enfers (Orpheus in de
onderwereld) is het
beroemdste afzonderlijk
uitgevoerde stuk van de
operettecomponist
Offenbach. Na deze
opzwepende dansmuziek
volgt het prachtige,
gedragen thema uit het
tweede deel van de
symfonie Uit de nieuwe
wereld met de titel
Largo, van de hand
van de Tsjechische
componist Dvorák.
Kortom: zes zeer
afwisselende
arrangementen, uitdagend
en uitermate geschikt
voor uitvoeringen!
More Classical
Highlights ist die
Fortsetzung von
Classical
Highlights, einer
Sammlung von Arrangements
klassischer Themen aus
der Zeit vom 17. bis zum
19. Jahrhundert. Die
Stimmen sind recht
einfach gehalten und
reizvoll ausgearbeitet;
zugleich sind die
Arrangements nah an den
Originalstu cken. Der
Barock ist mit zwei
musikalischen
Höhepunkten vertreten:
Der bekannte Canon
von Pachelbel ist
vielleicht die meist
gespielte Komposition aus
dem 17. Jahrhundert. Die
Kraft dieses Stu ckes
liegt in einer Basslinie
aus nur acht Noten, u ber
der sich das eigentliche
Gefu ge des Kanons
entwickelt.
Réjouissance
aus der
Feuerwerksmusik
ist einesehr fröhliche
Komposition des
deutsch-englischen
Barockkomponisten
Händel. Ein Kleinod
der Klassik aus dem 18.
Jahrhundert ist das
raffinierte
Menuett von
Boccherini, einem
italienischen
Komponisten, der einen
groÃ?en Schatz an
Kammermusik schrieb. Das
19. Jahrhundert ist mit
drei beru hmten Werken
vertreten: Der lebhafte
Marche militaire No.
1 des Ã?sterreichers
Schubert stammt aus 3
Marches militaires fu
r Klavier zu vier
Händen. Der
Can-Can aus
Orphée aux
enfers (Orpheus in
der Unterwelt) ist das
beru hmteste separat
aufgefu hrte Stu ck des
Operettenkomponisten
Offenbach. Nach dieser
mitreiÃ?enden Tanzmusik
folgt ein schönes,
erhabenes Thema aus dem
zweiten Satz der
Sinfonie Aus der Neuen
Welt mit dem Titel
Largo aus der
Feder des tschechischen
Komponisten Dvorák.
More Classical
Highlights, qui fait
suite au recueil
Classical
Highlights, rassemble
une collection
dâ??arrangements de
thèmes classiques
couvrant une période
de trois siècles, du
XVIIe au XIXe siècle.
Les diverses parties
instrumentales sont
faciles et agréables
jouer, mais les
arrangements restent
néanmoins fidèles
aux compositions
originales. La musique
baroque est
représentée par
deux oeuvres toujours
appréciées. Parmi
toutes les compositions
du XVIIe siècle, le
célèbre
Canon de Pachelbel
est peut-être celle
que lâ??on entend le
plus souvent. Sa
puissance réside dans
une simple ligne de basse
de huit notes par-dessus
laquelle se développe
le motif ducanon
lui-même.
Réjouissance,
tirée de Music for
the Royal Fireworks,
est une pièce très
enjouée du compositeur
baroque anglo-allemand
Haendel. Le style
classique du XVIIIe
siècle est inclus sous
la forme dâ??un
élégant
menuet de
Boccherini, un
compositeur italien qui a
écrit une quantité
de musique de chambre. Le
XIXe siècle est
évoqué par trois
oeuvres célèbres.
La dynamique Marche
militaire n° 1, du
compositeur autrichien
Schubert, extrait des
Trois marches
militaires pour piano
quatre mains. Le
Cancan
dâ??Orphée aux
enfers est la plus
connue des oeuvres
dâ??Offenbach,
célèbre pour ses
opérettes. Cette danse
endiablée est suivie
du Largo,
admirable thème du
deuxième mouvement de
la Symphonie du
Nouveau Monde, du
compositeur tchèque
Dvorák. En
résumé : six
arrangements variés,
stimulants et parfaits
pour être
interprétés en
concert ! $47.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets (83) Volume 4: 33 Quartets Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Peters
By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Moser, Dechert. For 2 violin, viola, violoncell...(+)
By Franz Joseph Haydn.
Edited by Moser, Dechert.
For 2 violin, viola,
violoncello.
Op.1,Nos.1-6(B|,E|,D,G,B|
,C);
Op.2,Nos.1-6(A,E,E|,F,D,B
|);
Op.3,Nos.1,2,4,6(E,C,B|,A
);
Op.20,(Sun)Nos.1-3(E|,C,g
); Op.33,(Quartets with
Scherzi)(Jungfern,Bird or
Russian)Nos.1,4,5,(b,B|;G
,How do you do?);
Op.51,(Seven Last
Words):Introduction(d); 7
Sonata. Published by C.F.
Peters.
$109.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720). UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $53.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
String quartet String Quartet SKU: PR.16400272S Cassatt. Composed ...(+)
String quartet String
Quartet SKU:
PR.16400272S
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S). UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $38.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440265S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.14440265S Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 25 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40265S.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.14440265S). UPC:
680160027910. The
Second and Third Quartets
were conceived at the
same time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed. Accordingly,
they share similar
material but, like the
intertwining blood of
cousins, their natures
differ: No. 2 being
somewhat acerbic and
declamatory, No. 3 more
lyric and gentler. An
annunicatory 'leaping
motive' (derived from a
motto generated by my
name) opens Quartet No. 2
and inhabits the course
of the piece as a
cyclical binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
'grammar' spoken tends to
recall the jazz world of
my youth. To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms. The
first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The second
movement is a set of
strophic variants and an
epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
'call-and-response.' It
is dedicated to the
memory of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto. All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For example,
the climax of movement
III's Rondo throws the
first movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda. The Second and
Third Quartets were
conceived at the same
time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed.Â
Accordingly, they share
similar material but,
like the intertwining
blood of cousins, their
natures differ: No. 2
being somewhat acerbic
and declamatory, No. 3
more lyric and gentler.An
annunicatory
‘leaping
motive’ (derived
from a motto generated by
my name) opens Quartet
No. 2 and inhabits the
course of the piece as a
cyclical
binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
‘grammar’
spoken tends to recall
the jazz world of my
youth.To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms.Â
The first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The
second movement is a set
of strophic variants and
an epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
‘call-and-response.
’ It is
dedicated to the memory
of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto.All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For
example, the climax of
movement III’s
Rondo throws the first
movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda. $85.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Set de Parties séparées] Barenreiter
Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata". By Leos Janacek. Edited by Leos Fal...(+)
Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's
"Kreutzer Sonata". By
Leos Janacek. Edited by
Leos Faltus; Milos
Stedron. For Viola,
Violin (2), Violoncello.
Published by
Baerenreiter-Ausgaben
(German import).
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| Franz Joseph Haydn:
The Seven Last Words of Christ Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Peters
By Franz Joseph Haydn. For 2 violin, viola, violoncello. Op.51, Nos.1-7 (String ...(+)
By Franz Joseph Haydn.
For 2 violin, viola,
violoncello. Op.51,
Nos.1-7 (String Quartet).
Published by C.F. Peters.
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| String Quartet No. 3 'Angel's Music' Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030980 Parts. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
HL.14030980
Parts. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00249.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030980). ISBN
9788759871973.
12.0x16.0x0.285
inches. Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angel's Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on
Angel's Music was started
in Rome, where I spent
the autumn of 1987
staying at The Danish
Academy. Whether this
stay has influenced the
quartet or not is
impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part of the
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of
Angel's Music is divided
into three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the general
pattern almost
fractionally into the
smallest cells of the
music, or more correctly;
crawl from the small
cells into the general
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