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Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.114410380

Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Saddle, Tape Junction. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1998. Opus 60. 48 + 92 pages. Duration 30 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41038. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410380).

UPC: 680160015160. 9.5 x 13 inches.

My second String Quartet was written twenty years after the first, Opus 4 from 1978. The First Quartet is an obsessively contrapuntal work in one movement, which was no doubt influenced by my studies with David Diamond. I had always intended to return to the medium once I left the astringency of my earlier style, but it was only when the National Federation of Music Clubs commissioned a major chamber work, with unspecified instrumentation, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary that I was enabled to do so. The Second Quartet is in four movements: Moderato, Allegro isterico, an Andante theme with 11 variations, and the closing Allegro, which then returns to the tempo of the first movement. An audience member at the premiere told me that she heard echoes of recent tragic events such as the Oklahoma bombing in this work. While I had no such programmatic intent while writing the quartet, it was not an entirely incorrect assessment of the work's intended emotional impact. The quartet is pervaded by a sense of seriousness, even mournfulness. The second movement's scherzo is an aggressively animated piece of musical machinery. The third movement's Variations unfold into a greater variety of moods than the others - but the moments of lyricism are countered by aggressive or ironic outbursts. The final movement's attempt at triumph quickly subsides into a return of the first movement, before being transformed onto a sense of resignation and acceptance as the chromaticism of the opening theme is transformed into a pure and diatonic C-Major. The work received its world premiere by the Shanghai Quartet at the 100th Anniversary Congress of the National Federation of Music Clubs at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on August 19th 1998.
My second String Quartet was written twenty years after the first, Opus 4 from 1978.  The First Quartet is an obsessively contrapuntal work in one movement, which was no doubt influenced by my studies with David Diamond.  I had always intended to return to the medium once I left the astringency of my earlier style, but it was only when the National Federation of Music Clubs commissioned a major chamber work, with unspecified instrumentation, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary that I was enabled to do so.The Second Quartet is in four movements:  Moderato, Allegro isterico, an Andante theme with 11 variations, and the closing Allegro, which then returns to the tempo of the first movement.An audience member at the premiere told me that she heard echoes of recent tragic events such as the Oklahoma bombing in this work.  While I had no such programmatic intent while writing the quartet, it was not an entirely incorrect assessment of the work’s intended emotional impact.  The quartet is pervaded by a sense of seriousness, even mournfulness.  The second movement’s scherzo is an aggressively animated piece of musical machinery.  The third movement’s Variations unfold into a greater variety of moods than the others – but the moments of lyricism are countered by aggressive or ironic outbursts.  The final movement’s attempt at triumph quickly subsides into a return of the first movement, before being transformed onto a sense of resignation and acceptance as the chromaticism of the opening theme is transformed into a pure and diatonic C-Major.The work received its world premiere by the Shanghai Quartet at the 100th Anniversary Congress of the National Federation of Music Clubs at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on August 19th 1998.

String Quartet

SKU: AY.CM3207PM

Composed by Chatori Shimizu. Ensembles - Chamber Music. Periferia Publishing #CM3207PM. Published by Periferia Publishing (AY.CM3207PM).

ISBN 9790803752763.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, a 19th Century French caricaturist, is not well-known in Japan. The composer was inspired to compose Fiddle after seeing Grandville's work, Apocalypse du ballet, which expresses continuous patterns of transformative objects in a sense of disorienting beauty. Although all four instruments are responsible for four individual melodies, they are not subjected to fixed pitches and textures (extended techniques such as sul ponticello and sul tasto are used), and are intended to create a merged acoustic fabric that is in constant transformation.

String quartet

SKU: B9.793

Music for a Changing World. Composed by Laura Kaminsky. This edition: saddle stitch. Score and set of parts. Duration ca. 20 minutes. Bill Holab Music #793. Published by Bill Holab Music (B9.793).

9 x 12 inches.

String Quartet - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14042989

Composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-holmgreen. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2014. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH31937. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042989).

ISBN 9788759829240. English.

All In One for 3 String Quartets was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013 (String Quartet No.12,13 and 14 played simultaneously).


Gudmundsen -Holmgreen has written a collection of three new string quartets: String Quartet no. 12, ‘Each in Each’; String Quartet no. 13, ‘Mutual Ordering’, and String Quartet no. 14, ‘Well-Tuned Sounds’. Each quartet can be played on its own; they can also played simultaneously in any combination. When all three quartets are played together, as they are tonight, the combined work is titled All in One. About this collection, Gudmundsen-Holmgreenwrite s:


'Some years ago Kronos and the vocal group Theatre of Voices performed three new pieces, which I had written for the two groups: one for Theatre of Voices (Green), and two for Kronos (New Ground and No Ground). They were played and sung by each group independently – but also both groups together concurrently, on top of each other, as a final gesture. The combined pieces were called New Ground Green and No Ground Green.


'David liked the idea (and the result) of pairs of quartets that could be played both independently and simultaneously, and asked me if the vocal quartet could be transformed into a string quartet. It could not. He then asked me to repeat the whole set-up with a new pair of quartets, adding also some percussion instruments, as was the case with Green for Theatre of Voices. Of course this was tempting. Furthermore David asked me to make one of the two new quartets a little easier to play.
'I began to work. The Kronos part of the pair of quartets turned out to be tough to play, as David puts it. Unfortunately the ‘easier’ one was tough to play also! So I had to write one more, which was then a little easier still (but still not easy).
'The three new works can be played separately and on top of each other in many different combinations, resulting in different kinds of.

Viola(s) solo

SKU: BR.EB-9185

Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Solo instruments; Folder. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Munster, November 2, 2007

Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 2007. 14 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9185. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9185).

ISBN 9790004183007. 13.5 x 11 inches.

Das japanische Wort ,,EN hat zwei verschiedene Schriftzeichen und kann demnach einmal Kreis und einmal Beziehung heissen. Es ist etwas Lebendiges, ein Dazwischen. Man stelle sich eine Holzveranda vor, auf der man sitzt, hinter sich das Holzgebaude oder einen Tempel, vor sich den Garten (einen kunstvollen japanischen Garten!), in den man meditierend oder wie auch immer blickt, die Kunst in der Natur und ihre Architektur auf sich wirken lassend, sinnend, nachdenkend, interpretierend, erforschend. Nicht nur John Cage war fasziniert. Ich habe viele dieser Gartenanlagen in Kyoto besucht und auf mich wirken lassen. Der Interpret in ,,EN sieht die Viola gleichsam vor sich wie einen japanischen Tempelgarten, das dunkle Gebaude hinter sich. Dazu gibt es eine ,,frottage transforme, die die alte Technik der Reibekunst von Max Ernst (1925) aufnimmt, um drei verschiedene japanische Boden- und Einschliessungsstrukturen in allen moglichen Kombinationen in einer frottage klanglich zu transformieren und als spezielle Ausdruckscharakteristik in die anderen der Komposition hineinzukombinieren.Wir wissen, dass Ameisen ihre Schritte zahlen, um ihren Bau wiederzufinden. Bringt man an ihren Beinen Stelzen an, schiessen Sie uber ihr Ziel hinaus. Ich wunschte mir solche Stelzen fur Ihre zuhorenden Ohren!Nicolaus A. Huber (2006)

World premiere: Munster, November 2, 2007.

String Quartet

SKU: SU.28030020

For String Quartet. Composed by Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann. Chamber Music, String Trio/Quartet/Quintet. Score & Parts. Subito Music Corporation #28030020. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.28030020).

Da Lontano is based on a triple variation in which three contrasting groups of musical material transforms in numerous ways gradually gaining intensity.string quartet Duration: 18' Composed: 2016 Published by: Distributed Composer.