PARTITIONS GRATUITES : VIOLON, CORDES ET CONTINUO
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String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-510-1

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score and parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-510-1. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-510-1).

ISBN 9790550115101.

Matt hew Whittall's preface to Bright Ferment (2019): I have a complicated history with the string quartet. Actually, it's not that complicated. I spent months writing a huge one in my early twenties and hastily withdrew it after a long delayed premiere, vowing never to write another. In a typical case of karmic retribution, my fear of the form would eventually be overcome by the unrefusable offer to write the compulsory piece for the Banff International String Quartet Competition in my native Canada. The short duration requested, about nine minutes, also felt like a good way to wade gingerly back into the medium. The title was originally just a nice-sounding pair of words that surfaced in a brainstorming session with fellow composer Alex Freeman over an injudicious amount of fermented barley. When I looked it up later, I found that it was a phrase of older coinage, seemingly used more for poetic resonance than any fixed meaning. Ferment by itself denotes a state of confusion, change or lack of order. With bright, it takes on a more positive connotation with regard to society and creativity: a wild profusion of ideas barely checked by reason. (It may not actually mean that, but it describes this piece nicely, so let's go with it.) Fermentation in its trendy culinary usage is also hinted at via a recurrent percolating device of scattered pizzicati. As one may guess from the tone of this introduction, there is little attempt at gravity in Bright Ferment, the only means by which I felt I could sidestep the historical and expressive weight of the string quartet genre. Styles, gestures and moods are tossed around, cross-cut and abandoned in stream-of-consciousness fashion, connected by little except an intuitive sense of rightness in their juxtaposition. If the piece acquires depth in spite of me, it will only be because its disparate parts amplify and strengthen each other simply by being together - much like the ensemble itself. Bright Ferment was commissioned by the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with additional funding from the Americas Society (New York), for the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Duration: ca. 9 minutes.

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), edited by Ludwig Landshoff. BWV 1037, 1039, . Collection and set of performance parts for 2 violins, cello (viola da gamba) and cembalo (basso conitnuo). With basso continuo notation, bowings and fingerings. 69 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

String Quartet - intermediate

SKU: BT.DHP-1155643-070

Composed by Joey Tempest. Arranged by Anthony Gröger. De Haske Pops for String Quartet. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2015. De Haske Publications #DHP 1155643-070. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1155643-070).

ISBN 9789043145954. English-German-French-Dut ch.

Recorded by Swedish rock band Europe, Final Countdown has remained one of the classic rock tunes of all time. This international number 1 chart hit has been expertly arranged for String Quartet by Anthony Gröger. Let the Countdown begin!

By Georg Philipp Telemann. Edited by Ute Poetzsch. For Violin/Flute 1. Single Part. TWV 43:A4. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import). (BA5873 74)

Composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). For violin solo, violin I, violin II, viola and basso continuo. Urtext. Format: study score. With introductory text. Baroque. 95 pages. 6.5x9 inches. Duration 46m. Published by Baerenreiter-Taschenparti turen (German Import).

(for 3 Cellos - Score and Parts). Composed by Various. Edited by �rp�¡d Pejtsik. For Cello Trio (Score and Parts). EMB. Softcover. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14930. Published by Editio Musica Budapest

String Trio (V1, V2, Cello) and continuo

SKU: HH.HH586-FSP

Composed by Frederich Ernest Fisher. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH586-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH586-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213017.

Sain t Pancras refers to the original name of the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden, the Netherlands, where Emma is composer in residence.

String Trio (V1, V2, Cello) and continuo

SKU: HH.HH587-FSP

Composed by Frederich Ernest Fisher. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH587-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH587-FSP).

ISBN 9790708213024.

Fish er’s Op. 2 set is externally very similar to its Op. 1 predecessor in its combinations of movement types and musical language, but now has an added spaciousness and audacity born of greater maturity. Everything is wonderfully blended: the fugal movements are melodious; the ‘singing allegros’ are harmonically rich and contrapuntally charged; the dance-like movements, full of happy surprises, fizz and purr. Op. 2 appeared in print only in the year following Fisher’s death. Surprisingly in the circumstances, the level of accuracy in the engraved parts matched the high standard set by Op. 1. This would have gratified the composer, who was so evidently a perfectionist in all he undertook.