| John Joubert: String Quartet No.2 Op.91 (Parts) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Music Sales
String Quartet SKU: HL.14031816 Composed by Jean Joubert. Music Sales Ame...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
HL.14031816 Composed
by Jean Joubert. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV12053901.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14031816).
8.5x11.75x0.3
inches. Though
conceived as four
separate movements, my
second string quartet has
a single motif which is
common to them all. This
is the three-note Muss es
sein? from Beethoven's
last quartet, Op. 135.
But whereas Beethoven's
theme is notated G E A
flat, thus giving it an F
minor connotation, I have
sued an alternative
spelling - G E G sharp -
which suggests an
ambiguous E minor-major.
This ambiguity, in fact,
becomes the tonal basis
of the whole work, only
to be resolved at the end
of the final movement.
Each movement begins with
a variant of the basic
motif on the cello. The
first has the original
form of the theme, while
the second has a
majorised version which
is also expressed as a
chord. The third
movement, with its
scherzoid middle section,
reverts to the
major-minor ambiguity of
the first, and the finale
begins with the majorised
version as an ostinato
accompaniment on
pizzicato cello. The slow
movement is sub-titled In
memoriam DSCH and
concludes with a
quotation of
Shostakovich's motto - D
E flat C B - which is
basically the same as
Beethoven's with the
addition of one note.
This is not to imply that
the work contains no
other thematic material.
One important theme, a
rising fifth and a
second, is also common to
three of the movements,
and is ultimately derived
from my first quartet,
Op. 1 of 27 years
earlier, to which this
second contribution to
the form is in many ways
like a sequel. Like the
earlier work, too, this
quartet is dedicated to
my wife. $60.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Pieces de Concours Band 2 Alto, Piano - Intermédiaire/avancé Schott
From the Paris Conservatoire repertoire. Composed by Various. Edited by J...(+)
From the Paris
Conservatoire
repertoire. Composed
by Various. Edited by
Jutta
Puchhammer-Sedillot. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Classical. Score
and part, Softcover.
Composed 1896-1938.
22255. 92 pages. Schott
Music #ED22255. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045395).
$31.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Concerto for Flute in D major (Concerto per il Flauto traverso in D / Flotenkonzert in D) Carus Verlag
Solo flute, 2 horn, 2 violin, viola, cello/bass, basso continuo SKU: CA.38404...(+)
Solo flute, 2 horn, 2
violin, viola,
cello/bass, basso
continuo SKU:
CA.3840403
Flotenkonzert in
D. Composed by Johann
Christian Bach. Edited by
Ulrich Leisinger. This
edition: Paperbound.
Stuttgart Urtext Edition:
Bach vocal. With one
part. Piano reduction.
Composed 1768. Warb C 79.
Duration 20 minutes.
Carus Verlag #CV
38.404/03. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.3840403). ISBN
9790007096472. Key: D
major. Language: all
languages. Johann
Christian Bach was - as
his father before him -
only very seldom
satisfied with the
compositions that he put
down on paper. Thus did
this concerto too undergo
many
corrections/revisions by
the composer and today
consists of three
movements of similar
length. Although they
were initially handed
down separately at
different locations, the
motivic relationship as
well as the melodic and
figurative references
among themselves clearly
reveals the common
identity of the three
movements. Not only the
final rondo is
characterized by highly
virtuoso passages, but
both the slow, second
movement as well as the
introductory movement
testify to youngest Bach
son's compositional
greatness, whose works
later generations
unjustly let almost fall
into desuetude. Score
available separately -
see item CA.3840400. $31.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] 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 | | |
| Copland for Viola Alto seul Boosey and Hawkes
By Aaron Copland. Arranged by Quincy C. Hilliard. (Viola). Boosey and Hawkes Ch...(+)
By Aaron Copland.
Arranged by Quincy C.
Hilliard. (Viola).
Boosey and Hawkes Chamber
Music. Book only. Size
9x12 inches. 16 pages.
Published by Boosey &
Hawkes.
$12.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| What Child Is This? Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Advance Music
SKU: AP.1-ADV6402 For String Quartet. Arranged by Dennis C. Anders...(+)
SKU: AP.1-ADV6402
For String
Quartet. Arranged by
Dennis C. Anderson.
Quartet; Solo Small
Ensembles; String
Quartet. Advance Music:
Holiday Celebration
Series. Christmas;
Sacred; Secular;
Traditional; Winter.
Score and Part(s).
Advance Music
#01-ADV6402. Published by
Advance Music
(AP.1-ADV6402). UPC:
805095064025. English.
Traditional. Deligh
tful setting is based
upon the traditional
Christmas song, What
Child Is This?. This
arrangement by Dennis C.
Anderson utilizes common
string quartet techniques
coupled with lush
harmonies and contrasting
styles. $27.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Rhythm A Week Viola Alto seul [Partition] Belwin
By Anne Witt. Edited by Thom Proctor. String method/supplement (Viola). 32 pages...(+)
By Anne Witt. Edited by
Thom Proctor. String
method/supplement
(Viola). 32 pages.
Published by Belwin.
$7.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet In F Score & Parts Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Schott
String quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49007611 Composed by Cornelius Uwe Gus...(+)
String quartet -
difficult SKU:
HL.49007611 Composed
by Cornelius Uwe Gustav
Jenner. Edited by Horst
Hermann Heussner. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. 148 pages. Schott
Music #ED 7896. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49007611). ISBN
9790001081757. Gust
av Jenner (1865-1920), a
student of Brahms', wrote
only three string
quartets. The Third
String Quartet in F major
was completed in 1911 and
premiered by the Rebner
Quartet. Common to all
Jenner's Quartets is his
way of infusing the
classical model with his
own musical language,
both on an intellectual
plane and from a
technical point of view.
True to the tradition of
the genre, the classical
form of the string
quartet is retained,
without however showing
itself to be a constraint
in the completion of the
cycle. What stands out is
the sophistication of
detail and the purity of
form achieved through
integration of the
elements of composition
and nuances of mood. $88.00 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
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