| This present moment used to be the unimaginable future... Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
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| 101 Jazz Songs for Cello Violoncelle Hal Leonard
Composed by Various. Instrumental Solo. Softcover. 104 pages. Published by...(+)
Composed by Various.
Instrumental Solo.
Softcover. 104 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
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| a2 (b) Violon, Violoncelle (duo) [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
Violin and Cello SKU: BT.MUSM570360130 Composed by Thomas Simaku. Score O...(+)
Violin and Cello SKU:
BT.MUSM570360130
Composed by Thomas
Simaku. Score Only. 9
pages. University of York
Music Press
#MUSM570360130. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570360130).
English. For
Violin and Cello.
Published 2008. Dedicated
to Peter Sheppard
Skaerved and Neil Heyde.
This music was composed
during my DAAD residency
in Berlin in October —
November 2007. If I were
to describe it in one
sentence, I would say
that it is based on the
idea of 'two things
seen/heard as one'. a2 (a
due) is a well-known term
to musicians; it is often
found in orchestral
scores indicating a given
passage that is to be
played by two instruments
of the same family.
Although violin and cello
could well be regarded as
'first cousins' of the
string family, the
literal implementation of
the term a2 as a
'compositional strategy'
would have been too much
(!) for a piece of
chamber music consisting
of no more than two
players. Not
surprisingly, this never
happens in this work; in
fact, the opposite is
true: regardless of how
it appears on paper (i.e.
on one or two staves),
the music for each
instrument is constantly
based on two layers. This
musical 'interpretation'
of the title gives an
indication as to how the
textural format of the
piece operates. However,
this was by no means the
only thought that
'preoccupied' my mind
whilst composing this
music. Berlin made a
profound impression on
me. The remnants of the
wall in Bernauer
Straße and the cobbled
two-stone line tracing
the wall across where it
once stood — a clear
reminder of what not so
long ago there were two
different worlds in one
city — provoked a
strikingly dramatic
effect. Border,
death-strip, killing, and
escape to freedom had a
particularly evocative
resonance, especially of
the time when I lived for
three years in a remote
town in Southern Albania
right at the border with
Greece. There, there was
a nameless road whose
destination the
authorities did not want
you to know, but the
locals called it the
'death-road'. In no way
programmatic, in this
context, the
extra-musical dimension
of the principal idea is
very much part of the
piece. Here, the musical
and extra-musical
interpretations cannot
easily be separated, for
they are two parts of the
same thing: a2. As if to
add another dimension to
this idea, there are two
versions of this piece:
for viola & cello and
violin & cello. The
first version was
premiéred by Garth Knox
and Rohan de Saram at the
2008 Intrasonus Festival
in Venice.. $18.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 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
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| Duetto for cello and double bass Violoncelle, Contrebasse (duo) Yorke Edition
Trombone, Cello SKU: BT.YE0001 Composed by Gioachino Rossini. Book Only. ...(+)
Trombone, Cello SKU:
BT.YE0001 Composed by
Gioachino Rossini. Book
Only. Yorke Edition
#YE0001. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0001). It
was a chance visit to a
second hand bookshop in
Nottingham that set me on
the trail of Rossini's
now well-known Duetto for
cello and double bass.
But the story begins
earlier than that. In the
1960s I was studying the
double bass at the Royal
College of Music with
Adrian Beers, who was at
that time principal of
the English Chamber
Orchestra, on the front
desk of the Philharmonia
Orchestra, and a member
of the Melos Ensemble of
London (then one of the
leading ensembles of the
world). I was working on
the 'Dragonetti
Concerto', as most young
players do, and I wanted
to find out a bit about
it. My teacher said he
thought the autograph
manuscript might be in
the British Library,which
was all the encouragement
I needed to secure a pass
to the Reading Room so I
could go and see for
myself.
There,
sure enough, I found a
large collection of
Dragonetti's autograph
manuscripts, together
with other bound volumes
relating to his life. The
papers had been lovingly
collated and annotated by
Vincent Novello, one of
Dragonetti's closest
friends, then deposited
in the library before his
departure to Italy in
1848, two years after
Dragonetti's death. One
of the volumes included a
lot of letters about
various engagements and
music festivals, copies
of orders for strings
Dragonetti wanted from
Italy, details about
paintings he wanted to
buy, and numerous
invitations to private
functions. The manuscript
of the 'Dragonetti
Concerto', of course,
wasn't among the papers
â?? we now know it to
have been written by
Edouard Nanny a century
or so later.
One name that
came up regularly in the
documents was that of Sir
George Smart. Smart had
been a violinist in
Salomon's orchestra and
had played for Haydn at
his London concerts in
the 1790s. As a child he
had learnt much about
music from his father,
who had in turn been
present at many of
Handel's rehearsals when
he was preparing some of
his major works for the
first time. Smart was
also a fine keyboard
player, becoming organist
of the Chapel Royal in
1822. As a conductor. $13.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Six Suites for Violoncello solo, BWV 1007-1012 Violoncelle Barenreiter
Violoncello SKU: BA.BA05278 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by ...(+)
Violoncello SKU:
BA.BA05278 Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Edited by Andrew Talle.
This edition: Facsimile,
Urtext edition.
Paperback. Barenreiter
Urtext. Urtext from the
New Bach Edition -
Revised (NBArev).
Performance score,
anthology, Facsimile. BWV
1007-1012. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA05278_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA05278).
ISBN 9790006569625.
32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
Preface: Talle,
Andrew. When we
think of the cello, we
automatically think of
Bach’s immortal
cello suites. They are
the very core of cello
literature, their
timeless beauty
accompanying cellists
from their student years
throughout the height of
their professional
careers.
Consideri
ng the works’
significance, the great
number of editions in
existence is not
surprising. However, the
composer’s
autograph has not been
preserved and is
considered lost. This
circumstance creates an
exceptional challenge
many editors faced over
the years. The four
autograph sources still
in existence and the
first print from 1824
show numerous small
deviations, especially in
terms of articulation
markings and
phrasing.
In this
two-volume edition of
Bach’s cello
suites, Andrew Talle now
presents an entirely new
view of the relationships
between existing sources.
The first volume contains
the edited musical text,
which comes as close to
the composer’s
original intention as the
surviving source material
allows: “This
edition does not
constitute a perfect
reconstruction of the
lost autograph; that is
something no editor could
claim to accomplish.
Instead, I have attempted
to supply musicians and
researchers with a
reliable version of the
surviving musical text of
the six cello suites, and
to convey a sense of the
many possibilities Bach
encouraged his musicians
to explore.â€The
second volume presents,
for the first time,
synoptically arranged
facsimiles of the
handwritten sources as
well as the first print
(with Suite No. V also
including Bach’s
own arrangement for
lute), allowing readers
to compare any specific
section in all sources at
one glance. This allows
for a straightforward and
immediate consideration
of all sources, making
editorial decisions
transparent and
self-evident.
Andr
ew Talle’s edition
is supplemented by a
comprehensive discussion
of the instrument for
which the suites were
created, as well as
information regarding
musical interpretation
during Bach’s
time.
About
Barenreiter
Urtext
What can I
expect from a Barenreiter
Urtext
edition?<
/p> MUSICOLOGICA
LLY SOUND - A
reliable musical text
based on all available
sources - A
description of the
sources -
Information on the
genesis and history of
the work - Valuable
notes on performance
practice - Includes
an introduction with
critical commentary
explaining source
discrepancies and
editorial decisions
... AND
PRACTICAL -
Page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them - A
well-presented layout and
a user-friendly
format - Excellent
print quality -
Superior paper and
binding
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| In Damascus (Full Score and Parts) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Peters
Tenor & String Quartet SKU: PE.EP72822 Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s...(+)
Tenor & String Quartet
SKU: PE.EP72822
Composed by Jonathan
Dove. Voice(s) & Various
Instruments. Edition
Peters. Living Composer.
Score and Part(s). 164
pages. Duration 00:30:00.
Edition Peters
#98-EP72822. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP72822). ISBN
9790577011769. 232 x
303mm inches.
English. I have
only visited Damascus
once, twenty years ago,
on the way to
Palmyra. I had a
purpose (I was writing
music for a play about
Palmyra’s Queen
Zenobia) but essentially
I was a tourist.
Like any visitor, I was
thrilled to step out of
the noisy modern city
into the magical ancient
world of the walled Old
City, its vibrant souk
leading to the
magnificent mosque, and a
labyrinth of winding,
narrow streets filled
with the smell of
unleavened
bread. In Palmyra,
I was met with
extraordinary kindness
everywhere. On one
occasion, a little
Bedouin boy noticed that
I was risking sunstroke
wandering bare-headed
among the spectacular
ruins: he showed me how
to tie a turban, then
took me to have tea with
his family in their
tent. Since then, I
have watched helplessly
as these places of wonder
have been devastated and
their inhabitants
scattered and
killed. When the
Sacconi Quartet suggested
that I might choose a
Syrian poet for our
collaboration, I welcomed
the idea. I
searched for a long time
to find a contemporary
poet whose work might
gain from any music I
could imagine. I
felt it was important to
find first-hand accounts
of the Syrian experience
– but, of course, I
was always reading them
in translation. In
an anthology
called Syria
Speaks, I was
astonished to read
something that looked
like prose, but was full
of poetry. It was
Anne-Marie
McManus’s fine
translation of Ali
Safar’s A
Black Cloud in a Leaden
White Sky
– an
eloquent, thoughtful,
contained yet vivid
account of life in a
war-torn country, all the
more moving for its
restraint. In
setting these words, I
have not attempted to
imitate Syrian
music. However,
there is what might be
called a linguistic
accommodation in my
choice of scale, or
mode. Several
movements are in a mode
that I first discovered
while writing a cantata
commemorating the First
World War: it has a
tuning that I associate
with war, its violence
and desolation.
This eight-note
mode is similar to scales
found in Syrian
music. I did not
choose it in the
abstract: it emerged from
the harmonies I was
exploring in the earlier
work, and emerged again
as I was looking for the
right musical colours to
set Ali Safar’s
words. In this
work, its Arabic aspect
is more prominent. -
Jonathan
Dove This
product is Printed on
Demand and may take
several weeks to fulfill.
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| 6 Suites for Violincello Solo, BWV 1007-1012 Violoncelle Barenreiter
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Edited by Andrew Talle. This edit...(+)
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750). Edited by
Andrew Talle. This
edition: urtext edition.
Cloth bund. Barenreiter
Urtext. Urtext of the New
Bach Edition - Revised
(NBArev). Performance
Score(s), anthology. BWV
1007-1012. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA05258.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA05258).
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