PARTITIONS GRATUITES : QUATUOR à CORDES
- Chaconne

Caprice de Chaconne (Guitar Solo). By Francesco Corbetta. Edited by Leo Brouwer. Guitar Solo. 12 pages. Ricordi #R135330. Published by Ricordi

Piano - Grade 3

SKU: HL.14022820

By Mina F. Miller. By Carl August Nielsen. Edited by Mina F. Miller. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 36 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29621. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14022820).

ISBN 9788759858196. 8.25x11.75x0.178 inches. English.

An accurate, critical revision of Carl Nielson's second major piano work Chaconne. An expressive and lively piece full of gusto that is suitable for upper intermediate pianists.

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14022821

Composed by Carl August Nielsen. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 20 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH16743. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14022821).

ISBN 9788759854280. 8.25x11.75x0.136 inches. English.

Carl Nielsen is doubtlessly one of Denmark's most important and popular composers. This is no more evident than in his 1916 work for Piano Solo, Chaconne Op.32, which followed a seventeen-year gap in his compositions for that instrument. It is a decidedly dynamic work, in constant motion from the moment the simple opening theme begins through the crescendo and to the winding down and end of this piece. The twenty variations that form the core of this piece themselves have a varied range, sometimes comparatively easy, showing Bach's influence, other times he uses highly complex contrasts. This is a fine example of Nielsen's work and uses mood and texture to great effect making it ideal for concert or recital performance whilst the variations make it a clever training manual.

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.

Composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Masterworks; Piano Collection. Kalmus Edition. Form: Suite. Baroque; Masterwork. Book. 92 pages. Kalmus Classic Edition #00-K03509. Published by Kalmus Classic Edition

2 treble recorders

SKU: HL.49043977

Edited by Hans Magolt and Rainer Butz. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music with CD. Woodwind. Diese Tanzmelodien fur zwei Alt-Blockfloten erwecken das Lebensgefuhl von Renaissance und Barock und versetzen musikalisch in langst vergangene Zeiten. Bereits damals beliebt und weit verbreitet, sind die Allemandes, Sarabandes, Chaconnes, Gavotten, Gigue. Softcover with CD. 32 pages. Schott Music #ED 20869. Published by Schott Music (HL.49043977).

ISBN 9783795754952. German. Bernhard Mark; Karin Schliehe.

These dance melodies for two treble recorders create an insight into life in the Renaissance and Baroque eras and take us on a musical journey to times long past. Very popular and quite common in their day, the allemandes, sarabands, chaconnes, gavottes, and gigues have remained popular throughout the centuries. Staying true to the historical style, the pieces have been arranged according to dance types and not to the level of difficulty.