PARTITIONS GRATUITES : ALTO
- I Will Follow for Viola

(26 Trios That Can Be Played by Any Combination of String Instruments). By Doris Gazda. Arranged by Doris Gazda. For Viola. Book. 48 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

Performed by The Beatles. Chart. Softcover. Size 9x12 inches. 94 pages. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation.

By Various Composers. Instrumental Folio. Size 9x12 inches. 146 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Viola. Arranged by Various. Book; CD; Play-Along; String Series; Worship Resources. Instrumental Solo Series. Contemporary Christian; Pop; Sacred. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14036341

Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. Composed 2001. Chester Music #CH60931. Published by Chester Music (HL.14036341).

ISBN 9780711955080.

Comm issioned by the BBC and premiered by the Chilingirian String Quartet. Quoting Wood: In my Second and Third Quartets I attempted sectional, agglutinative forms: in my Fourth I return to the conventional four movement form of my First Quartet of 1962. Both works build up (as in the 19th century symphony) to the Finale, thus making it the most substantial movement, which provides a climax to the work. The First Movement has, in both works, only the status of an Introduction. But there the consciously willed resemblances end. This Introduction follows the Second Quartet to a certain extent, in that it provides a sort of 'cauldron', from which elements to be used later can all be plucked. Its opening will reappear at various points throughout the work, most completely at a climatic point of the Finale (bar 110). Subsequent material will be more fully worked out in the second movement, a large Scherzo. The Introduction concludes with an unusually placed violin cadenza (itself a rare feature in a string quartet, the idea lifted from Elliott Carter's First Quartet) of which the opening is to reappear halfway through the Finale. The Scherzo (which follows attacca) does not have at its centre a discretely characterized Trio: a figure in double-stops like a distant fanfare supplies the necessary contrast of a second idea. The Slow Movement has a secondary idea first heard on the cello and marked appassionato: an agitato middle section recalls the opening of the work, but in a formulation which will be found closely to anticipate its reappearance in the Finale. The Finale is planned on a broad scale. Only after a fully worked exposition of both primary and secondary material does the opening of the whole work return, now in a greatly extended form. Then, at bar 140, the tune of the violin cadenza is first harmonized in fanfare style on the upper instruments, then presented as a chorale on the lower ones, with a rushing semiquaver accompaniment above. This climatic activity mounts to the very end. The work is dedicated to the Chilingirian Quartet, old friends over many years. Score available separately: SOS04044.

String Quartet (2vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.KM-2500

Composed by Hanspeter Kyburz. Chamber music; stapled. Kammermusik-Bibliothek (Chamber Music Library).

World premiere: Berlin, (Festspiele), September 9, 2004 (Quatuor Diotima)

Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score and parts. Composed 2003/2004. 118 pages. Duration 20'. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 2500. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-2500).

ISBN 9790004502730. 9 x 12 inches.

Hanspeter Kyburz works with three fundamental formative principles in his String Quartet. Soloistic, polyphonic and integratively i.e. homogeneously structured tutti runs alternate with one another, whereby the form does not follow a fixed pattern. Multifaceted correspondences and motivic relationships result from the interplay of the individual sections. The work was given its much-applauded first performance on 9 September 2004 at the Berliner Festwochen. The composer radically revised his quartet after the first performances. From January 2005 onwards, all concerts featuring the work will be based on this new version.

World premiere: Berlin, (Festspiele), September 9, 2004 (Quatuor Diotima).

Score String Quartet

SKU: HL.49045762

String Quartet Score. Composed by Shin-Ichiro Ikebe. String Ensemble. Classical. Softcover. 28 pages. Duration 600 seconds. Zen-On #ZN590228. Published by Zen-On (HL.49045762).

ISBN 9784115902282. 8.25x11.75x0.1 inches.

This is the eleventh work in my chamber music series, STRATA, and my fourth string quartet following STRATA I, V, and IX. This series started in 1988 based on the idea of regarding registers as strata (the plural form of stratum), from which the title in derived. While I continue to write pieces, however, the initial concept changed in various aspects. This time, I returned to the original idea To put it simply, I restarted from STRATA I. I used the same instruments and stared at strara created by the four string parts. That became the act of composing STRATA XI. The work doesn't have 'development' in the general sense but represents a panorama of strata. It consists of four movements (fast-slow-fast-slow). In fact, before writing the STRATA series, I wrote a long string quartet when I was a student, but I didn't include it in my list of works. Anyway, the thought of writing string quartet has never disappeared from me. It alays weighs heavily on my mind. Shin-Ichiro Ikebe.

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