Canon For Violin And Cello

Schnee - Ten Canons For Nine Instruments was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2006-08. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk for 'Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2008' with support from Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and The Danish Arts Council. Dedicated to Harry Vogt and Ensemble Recherche. Programme Note: In the beginning of the 90s I arranged some of J.S. Bach’s canons for ensemble – in total seven single standing works from his entire life span. I became totally absorbed into this music and arranged them with the intention of the music being repeated many many times as a kind of minimal music. Obviously I didn’t know which durations Bach had in mind but by listening to his canons in this way a profound new moving world of circular time was opened to me.Depending on the perspective on these canons the music and its time can stand still or move either backwards or forwards.In my own work an ongoing idea has persisted of at some point writing a work consisting of a number of canonical movements that would explore this universe of time. And when I was offered the commission for Ensemble Recherche and Wittener Tage it felt as the right time to do this.In Schnee a few simple and fundamental musical questions are explored. What is a Vorsatz? And what is a Nachsatz? Can a phrase be answering? Or questioning?The guideline or rule for the canons is very simple: We start out with an answering Vorsatz followed by a questioning Nachsatz. Throughout the time of the piece these two are intertwined more and more as more and more dicht geführt canons until at the end they are interchanged. Now the question and then the answer. The two canons are identical like a painting in two versions but with different colors. And where the first one does not include the space the second one does as well as containing more

1. Violin, 2. Violin (Viola) Violoncello. Par SASSMANNSHAUS EGON / SASSMANNSHAUS KURT. The Sassmannshaus 'Early Start” string methods cultivate playing together as early as possible, initially in duets. However playing in larger mixed ensembles is also encouraged and this tried-and-trusted edition for strings provides the perfect start for this. The first songs can all be performed in canon: each piece is notated in violin, viola and bass clef so that all three string instruments can play together in any number and combination. The collection then continues with through-composed pieces by such composers as Johann Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Joseph Fuchs. Here the middle part may optionally be performed by a viola or second violin./ Recueil / Violon, Violon ou alto et Violoncelle

2-stimmige Kanons. Par SCHMITZ MANFRED. Canons are fun and at the same time also help develop the ability to listen and play along, thus making them an important enhancement to musical training. With 109 pop style melodies in two volumes Manfred Schmitz work provides comprehensive and diversified material which can be flexibly implemented in teaching single pupils, for group lessons and for ensemble classes. The instruments violin, viola, violoncello and flute can thus stay „among themselves“ or play music together in all imaginable instrumental combinations. 2 part: 23 MINI-Canons – from the very start - 37 Canons – for the progressing demands This collection is particularly well-suited for the playing together ofpupil and teacher, but it also works well in group lessons. A collection of canons for the first learning steps on the instrument as well as for more advanced levels of learning. Through the universal versions for viola, cello and flute, different instruments can also play together. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Contemporary - Solos / Recueil / Violoncelle

The A Flying Start for Strings series presents a carefully graded sequence of music for teaching the beginning string player. The books are suitable for teaching individuals or groups of the same instrument. Many tunes in the series for violin viola and cello are in the same key and can be played together.Teachers can use this versatile series in a way that suits their own teaching style. There is ample room in all books for the teacher wishing to add more dynamics slurs bowing signs tempos instructions or explanations. The large easy-to-read notes and clear and simple layout help students concentrate on the notes they are learning. Lively folk and traditional tunesmake learning fun and lead to confident playing.With only one tune on most pages the young student gains a sense of achievement from turning the pages quickly and moving on.Book 2 starts with D string tunes to consolidate reading skills and provide the most comfortable pitch for singing. Students progress from one-string tunes to two-string tunes. The book introduces slurs simple dotted rhythms and dynamics. There is a page of bowing variations with rhythms and bowings to apply to a scale arpeggio or melody. Ensemble playing is brought in with canons and rounds.

For Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Harpsichord. Par HOPKINS JOHN. English / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière, Clarinette, Violon, Violoncelle

for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 'The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets' wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: 'The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting too narrow for me. In composing now I often hear a lot of things that I can barely suggest. For instance, it is remarkable how I invent almost everything canonically and never discover the imitating voices until afterward, very often in inversions, inverted rhythms.' The new urtext edition is based on the text of the Schumann Complete Edition./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. 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/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

For Isang Yun String Quartet No. 3 from 1959 marked the beginning of his European creative phase and of his official canon of works. Now it is possible to encounter Yun's early works from his Korean period in the form of his String Quartet No. 1 (1955). Three important 10-minute movements containing references not only to Asia but also to Ravel Bartók and Eastern European folk music and having an idiosyncratic structure: Yun lines up forms and figures makes them emerge from each other in a contrasting manner and assembles them into a mosaic-like whole seeking for integration laying down his material in layer upon layer and ending themovements with a rhythmic unison. […] Even then he probably regarded a work of art as an energetic stream of sounds and as a reflection of a world whose diverging parts weave into a harmonic whole. (Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer)

Par MANTOVANI BRUNO. La période de confinement qui a débuté en France en mars 2020 a été pour moi l'occasion de réfléchir aux directions que je désirais prendre dans les années à venir et de me lancer quelques petits défis d'écriture. Parmi eux, j'ai décidé de débuter la composition de deux pièces pour le même effectif, à savoir le quatuor à cordes, afin précisément de tester ma capacité à me renouveler. Si le Quatuor n°5 est une œuvre abstraite et continue (il s'agit en fait d'un canon rigoureux entre les quatre instruments), le Quatuor n°7 est une pièce moins linéaire, ou plutôt, une pièce où des linéarités se succèdent et s'entrechoquent. Il s'agit en effet d'une œuvre ou plusieurs processus de déformation d'une idée initiale rythment la forme. La notion de périodicité est omniprésente, dès le début de l'œuvre où un accord est répété à intervalle de plusieurs secondes, le silence étant progressivement investi par des textures de plus en plus continues. Au milieu de la pièce, les quatre instruments investissent une texture globale composée de périodicités superposées, comme si des métronomes à des tempi différents étaient déclenchés en même temps. Ce quatuor est une œuvre que je qualifierais de 'mécanique' et a été composé dans la perspective d'être augmenté par un orchestre dans une pièce concertante, Cadenza n°4, que j'ai déjà écrite. Il est dédié aux membres du Quatuor Diotima. Bruno Mantovani/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

New 2009 edition for 21st Anniversary. Inspired by the paintings of Joan Miro and a late 14th century canon.