PARTITIONS GRATUITES : 2 VIOLONS ET PIANO
- Chaconne

String quartet

SKU: HL.49045639

Chaconne. Composed by Fred Lerdahl. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String Ensemble. Softcover. Composed 2016. 108 pages. Duration 990 seconds. Schott Music #ED 30174. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045639).

ISBN 9781540004796. UPC: 888680710774. 9.5x12.0x0.37 inches.

Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music.My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach's D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms's Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern.My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl.

Violin

SKU: PE.0899174663

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jon F. Eiche. Reference Textbooks; Technique Musicianship; Textbook - Instrumental. 160 pages. Edition Peters #98-0899174663. Published by Edition Peters (PE.0899174663).

ISBN 9780899174662. UPC: 038081410739. English.

Excellent research tool with in-depth discussion into the history, analysis, and interpretation of the Chaconne including writings by Albert Schweitzer, Donald Tovey, and a Schenkerian analysis by the author. Text includes views on interpretation from Carl Flesch and Joseph Szigeti. 156 pages.

Composed by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Edited by Michael Elphinstone. Full score and parts. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH395-FSP).

Composed by Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-1745), edited by Leopold Charlier, Zino Francescatti. Instrumental solo book for violin and piano accompaniment. With piano accompaniment, bowings and fingerings. 21 pages. Published by International Music Co.

(Violin)

SKU: HL.48030263

Boosey & Hawkes Miscellaneous. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.48030263).

UPC: 884088934248.

Composed by John Corigliano (1938-). For violin and piano. From the motion picture "The Red Violin". Format: set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out violin part). With solo part and piano reduction. Movies. 32 pages. 9x12 inches. Duration 17m. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc..

String quartet - difficult

SKU: HL.49044143

For string quartet. Composed by Detlev Mueller-Siemens. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String Ensemble. Softcover. Composed 2011. 96 pages. Duration 12'. Schott Music #ED21351. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044143).

ISBN 9790001187237.

...c alled dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes, becoming entwined in the manner of a chimera through their rhythmic structure and dynamics. This intermittently produces a sort of 'inner voice' which runs through all four instruments. The fundamental notes and harmonics separate during the progress of the composition, becoming independent and then disintegrating. The consonant harmony resulting from the amalgamation of the two planes ultimately collapses into a rigid motor-like linearity. Detlev Muller-Siemens.

(Violin)

SKU: HL.48014414

Composed by Frank Michael Beyer. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Bote & Bock #M202511084. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48014414).

UPC: 073999968194.

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