| Happy Tune Violon Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music violin, viola SKU: PR.114419730 For violin and Viola...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
viola SKU:
PR.114419730 For
violin and Viola.
Composed by Chen Yi. Sws.
Set of Score and Parts.
8+2+2 pages. Duration
2:30. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41973.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419730). ISBN
9781491132333. UPC:
680160681686. 9 x 12
inches. Chen Yi
describes the cheery
interplay of HAPPY TUNE
as: “When one
instrument plays a
livelymelody, the other
plays a vivid rhythmic
pattern in the
accompaniment. The pair
of string
instrumentsimitates the
sound of primitive
Chinese folk song
singing, as well as the
Chinese traditional
windinstrument sheng, a
mouth pipe organ.â€
Published as a shared
score and extracted
parts, and writtenas a
celebration piece
honoring the 25th
anniversary of the Great
Lakes Chamber Music
Festival. Composed to
celebrate the 25th
Anniversary of the Great
Lakes Chamber Music
Festival, my violin and
viola duet HAPPY TUNE was
written for Kim
Kashkashian and Tien-Hsin
Cindy Wu, and premiered
at the festival on June
16, 2018.I fondly
remember being invited by
the GLCMF (directed by
Prof. James Tocco) to be
the dual Stone
Composers-in-Residence
with my husband Zhou
Long, along with the
Stone Composer Fellow
Nicholas Omiccioli in
2011. We had a dozen of
our chamber works
performed excellently by
the outstanding chamber
ensembles and musicians
during the week, meeting
enthusiastic audiences
and supporters of new
music in various venues
at the festival. The
experience was truly
inspiring, and I created
HAPPY TUNE to honor the
GLCMF, with hopes to
carry on the high spirit
in our new music
society.In this duet,
when one instrument plays
a lively melody, the
other plays a vivid
rhythmic pattern in the
accompaniment. The pair
of string instruments
imitates the sound of
primitive Chinese folk
song singing, as well as
the Chinese traditional
wind instrument sheng, a
mouth pipe organ. $16.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No 5 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Dantalian
By Donald Martino (1931-2005). For Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello. This edition: S...(+)
By Donald Martino
(1931-2005). For Violin,
Violin, Viola, Cello.
This edition: Study
Score. Contemporary
Classical. Conservatory.
Sheet music
$15.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Beautiful Music For Two String Instruments, Book 2 (Two Violas) 2 Altos (duo) [Partition] Belwin
Arranged by Samuel Applebaum. Collection for 2 violas. With standard duet notati...(+)
Arranged by Samuel
Applebaum. Collection for
2 violas. With standard
duet notation, bowings
and fingerings. 31 pages.
Published by Belwin.
(1)$8.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| How Beautiful Voix duo [Vocal Score] Hope Publishing Company
Composed by Twila Paris. Arranged by Lloyd Larson. For medium high voice and low...(+)
Composed by Twila Paris.
Arranged by Lloyd Larson.
For medium high voice and
low voice duet. Sacred
non-seasonal. Vocal
score. Published by Hope
Publishing Company
$7.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 business days | | |
| Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, Book III 2 Altos (duo) [Partition] Alfred Publishing
By Samuel Applebaum. For 2 Violas. String Orchestra Method/Supplement. Book. 32 ...(+)
By Samuel Applebaum. For
2 Violas. String
Orchestra
Method/Supplement. Book.
32 pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
$8.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720). UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches. My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet. $53.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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