PARTITIONS GRATUITES : VIOLON
CLASSIQUE MODERNE
- WH Monk

String Quartet - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14001159

Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Studyscore. Composed 2005. 28 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30120B. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14001159).

ISBN 9788759805527. UPC: 888680792657. 8.25x11.75x0.106 inches.

Study score to Bent Sorensen's Adieu for String Quartet. The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval monks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again. Bent Sorensen.

String Quartet (Parts) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14028046

Parts. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. 34 pages. Music Sales #KP00246. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028046).

ISBN 9788759859377. 9.5x14.25x0.12 inches. International (more than one language).

Score available: KP00247 Ruders writes: Quartet No. 3 Motet was written in 1979, commissioned by the Lerchenborg music-week of 1979 during which it was first performed by Quatuor Bernede. This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets, a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory, introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. Motet is a sober, cool treatise on rhythm and statics, depicted in a Gothic, crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys' choir, monks' processions, and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today.