PARTITIONS GRATUITES : VIOLON
- A Song of Angels

Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angels Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angels Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part ofthe piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angels Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'

For Violin. By Various. Instrumental Folio. Christmas. Softcover. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Mixed Instrument Collection Violin - 2-3

SKU: KN.19271

Composed by Various. Arranged by Carl Strommen. Holiday. Mixed Instrument Collection. Kendor Music Inc #19271. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.19271).

UPC: 822795192711.

This innovative collection of 10 Christmas favorites for any combination of three instruments includes a 4th and more advanced obbligato part that can be featured with the basic trio scoring to create a more exciting, sophisticated sound. This is the perfect opportunity for a group of varied ability levels. Published in score form for any combination of like or mixed instruments using the appropriate key-compatible books.

COL LECTION CONTENTS

Joy To The World; The First Noel; Good King Wenceslas and O Come, All Ye Faithful; Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella and We Three Kings; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and Away In A Manger; Up On The Housetop; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; Angels We Have Heard On High and O Little Town Of Bethlehem; Jingle Bells; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Deck The Halls.

With Suggested Chordal Accompaniment. Composed by Craig Duncan. Violin,Guitar: Gospel and Sacred,Style,Gospel/Sacre d,Du ets and Ensembles,Solos,Duets and Ensemble,Solos. 100 Hymns. Book. 120 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

By Douglas F Smith. Violin. Sacred instrumental. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company.

Arranged by Denise Gendron. Songbook and accompaniment CD for violin duet. 31 pages. Published by Santorella Publications.

By James Power. For 1-3 Violins. Christmas. Sheet Music. 28 pages. Published by Chester Music.