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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Piano Sonata No.12 - L.V. Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.12 - L.V. Beethoven
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Tom Christie
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Piano Sonata No.12 - L.V. Beet
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.974477 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Tom Christie. ...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.974477 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Tom Christie. Concert,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 17 pages. Tom Christie #6746841. Published by Tom Christie (A0.974477). Here is my arrangement of Beethoven's theme and variations first movement to his 12th piano sonata for string quartet! A wunderschön piece of music, the twelfth sonata sticks out in form. There is no movement in sonata form, and yet the first movement is a gliding theme and variations. .
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Bitten (Prayer)-Beethoven-String Quartet
Bitten (Prayer)-Beethoven-String Quartet
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Phil Beaman
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Bitten
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845163 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Phil Beaman. C...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.845163 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Phil Beaman. Classical,Romantic Period,Sacred,Standards,Wedding. Score and parts. 7 pages. Phil Beaman #6293485. Published by Phil Beaman (A0.845163). Bitten (Prayer) was composed by the Master, L. van Beethoven. It is the first of the Sechs Lieder (Six Songs), published in 1803, which foreshadowed the Art Songs of the Romantic Era. Originally for Voice and Piano, I have arranged it for Instrumental Quartet. My arrangement stays true to Beethoven's intent to capture the passion of the original text in the music. (The texts are all sacred poems by Gellert.)Â Without the presence of lyrics I needed to create musical interest and interpretation, so I realized inner voices and polyphony out of his original homophonic accompaniment. I added new shape to individual lines, altered phrasing, elaborated rhythms, and in true Beethoven style added more dynamic markings. The mood and meaning are now stunningly portrayed through music alone. Bitten begins with soft prayerful moving lines with all four parts weaving together. Then as the prayer begins to plead the intensity increases and it moves to more chordal progressions. Â
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String Quartet
String Quartet
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1163110 Composed by Jason A. Woodruff. 20th Century,Classical,Conte...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1163110 Composed by Jason A. Woodruff. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score and parts. 36 pages. Jason Allen Woodruff #763464. Published by Jason Allen Woodruff (A0.1163110). My first string quartet! This work is a bit personal to me as not only did I start my musical journey as a violist, but, it was thru exploration my high school's music cabinet that I first became aware of the string quartet works of Beethoven. I was enamoured especially by the Grosses Fugue -and learned to play each part on my viola. As a composer, I take a more personal view of the genre. Thus, this work exemplifies this thru use of a 5 note motif derived from my first name. The motif appears in each movement and is one of a few motifs that unify the entire 3 movement work.The work isn't too demanding on the performers. The excerpt audio is the second movement.
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SQ16 ... Música Callada (2022) full score
SQ16 ... Música Callada (2022) full score
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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SQ16 ... Música Callada
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869879 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary. Scor...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869879 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 34 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #6794109. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869879). I have been a huge admirer of Federico Mompou since my first encounter with his Música Callada on the ECM label with pianist Herbert Henck. Years later I found an album of the same work with Jenny Lin on the Steinway & Sons label. I was so impressed with her work on the Mompou that I hired her to record my Twenty-nine Fireflies for solo piano (1977-2002). I have subsequently hired her to record other solo piano works of mine: For Morton Feldman (2017), Préludes ... Hommage à C.D. (2020), Via Crucis ... Hommage à Franz Liszt (2020) and Huit Épigraphes (2021). So when it came time to write my 16th string quartet, I decided that Beethoven wasn't as inspiring as Shostakovich was when I wrote SQ15 ... Hommage à DSCH (2021). So, instead I thought maybe I should write a tribute to Mompou for my 16th string quartet.  SQ16 ... Música Callada (2022) is in 6 movements. 1. Adagio - Moderato 2. Adagio - Moderato 3. Presto - TRIO 4. Adagio 5. Allegro - TRIO 6. Largo NB: The entire work is played muted, con sordino.
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SQ17 ... Hommage à Villa-Lobos (2022) - full score - Score Only
SQ17 ... Hommage à Villa-Lobos (2022) - full score - Score Only
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SQ17 ... Hommage à Villa-Lobo
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1156755 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Roman...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1156755 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 39 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #757086. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.1156755). I have been a fan of the music by Heitor Villa-Lobos since my teenage years in São Paulo, Brazil, 1959-66. It was there when I first first heard his Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, with soprano solo and eight cellos. The memory of that music will forever haunt me. I then recently discovered through a CD box set recorded by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano that Villa-Lobos wrote 17 string quartets. I guess he wanted to beat the number of string quartets that Beethoven wrote which is 16. So this being my 17th string quartet I wanted to pay homage to Villa-Lobos and dedicate this work to him, in memoriam. I took his first string quartet as a model, in terms of the titles he gave to the movements of that work. I. Cantilena … Andante II. Brincadeira … Allegretto scherzando III. Canto lÃrico … Moderato IV. Cançoneta … Andantino quasi allegretto V. Saltando como um Saci … Presto VI. Melancolia … Lento, Andante NB: the titles of the movements for the rest of his string quartets (nos. 2 to 17) have the same standard classical four-movement designations of fast/allegro, slow/adagio, scherzo and fast/allegro. credits.
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Song of Holy Thanksgiving
Song of Holy Thanksgiving
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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EASY
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Andrew Middleton
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Song of Holy Thanksgiving
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.817530 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Andrew Middlet...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.817530 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Andrew Middleton. Classical,Sacred. Score and parts. 8 pages. Andrew Middleton #424462. Published by Andrew Middleton (A0.817530). In 1825, Beethoven completed his String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 and it received it's first performance in the November of that year. The whole quartet is made of 5 movements in total, with the third movement including the 'Song of Holy Thanksgiving.' It is a slow movement in the style of a chorale. This edition only includes the chorale opening and is ideal for beginner/intermediate players and would be ideal for concerts and church services. For more updates on new arrangements follow my Facebook page on https://www.facebook.com/a.middletonmusic/ Or subscribe to my Youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCClIYqddA2wMpdaxSq3BKEw?view_as=subscriber.
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Piano Sonata No.12
Piano Sonata No.12
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Tom Christie
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Piano Sonata No.12
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Tom Christie
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1042489 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Tom Christie....
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1042489 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Tom Christie. Classical,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 17 pages. Tom Christie #647276. Published by Tom Christie (A0.1042489). Here is my arrangement of the first movement variations from Beethoven's wonderful twelfth piano sonata.
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String Quartet No. 12 ... The Seasons (2010) full score
String Quartet No. 12 ... The Seasons (2010) full score
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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String Quartet No. 12 ... The
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869207 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romant...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869207 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. With Summer: Cloudburst! Double rainbow … Trio 3). 48 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #3905. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869207). Program note: As indicated by the title, this is my twelfth string quartet. My very first work, Aperture (1974), was a string quartet. In between I wrote four (nos. 2 – 5) for the Kronos Quartet, one (no. 6) for the Manhattan String Quartet, one (no. 7) for the Lydian String Quartet, one (no. 8) for the Artaria String Quartet, two (nos. 9 - 10) for the Hawthorne String Quartet, and one (no. 11) for the Formosa Quartet. The number twelve immediately brought to mind the months of the year. But I thought a twelve-movement string quartet might be a bit excessive, and difficult to achieve in a coherent narrative arc. Most classical string quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are in four movements. So why not the seasons, a movement for each: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. I am a huge fan of The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn. Confession: I am a huge fan of anything by maestro Haydn. For inspiration and guidance, I went to Haydn’s other oratorio The Seasons. Armed with a Dover publication of the full score and a recording of the complete work by Sir Thomas Beecham on EMI Classics, I got down to work over the summer of 2010. String Quartet No. 12 … The Seasons, after Franz Joseph Haydn is in four movements, played without pause between movements. 1) Intro: Heavy snow … Spring: Crocuses blooming!!! 2) Summer: Cloudburst! Double rainbow … Trio 3) Autumn: La Caccia … Danza Rusticana … Trio 4) Intro: Heavy snow again … Winter: O Magnum Mysterium … Hail storm! The work begins with four descending chords, depicting the falling of snow. But it’s Spring and crocuses are seen peeping through the snow … Summer begins with cloudbursts, thunder, lightning and torrential rain. A double rainbow appears after the storm. The sun emerges from the clouds in the Trio section. It is a lovely day after all; but then the clouds return … La Caccia: men go hunting in the Autumn. Well, the men in Haydn’s days at least. Peasant ladies dance as they harvest in the fields. A hawk appears, soaring overhead in the Trio as the sun sets in an orange-red sky ... In Winter snow falls again; but it’s the season to celebrate the Nativity. Violin and viola chant O magnum mysterium … O Magnum Mysterium O great mystery Et admirabile sacramentum and wonderful sacrament Ut animalia viderent Dominum natum that animals should see the new-born Lord Jacentem in praesepio! lying in a manger! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera Blessed is the Virgin whose womb Meruerunt portare was worthy to bear Dominum Christum. Christ the Lord. Alleluia. Alleluia. A hailstorm wreaks havoc. Fine. Audio link. Copy and paste the URL link into your browser.https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartet-no-12-the-seasons-2010Video link: https://youtu.be/8seBbMtds84
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Jacques Leguerney: String Quartet in D for two violins, viola and cello
Jacques Leguerney: String Quartet in D for two violins, viola and cello
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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ADVANCED
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Contemporary
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Jacques Leguerney
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II. Intermezzo
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Jacques Leguerney: String Quar
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Musik Fabrik Music Publishing
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.534402 Composed by Jacques Leguerney. 20th Century,Standards. Score...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.534402 Composed by Jacques Leguerney. 20th Century,Standards. Score and parts. 125 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3457403. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.534402). Jacques Leguerney (1906-1997) composed two string quartets. The Premier Quatuor à cordes was composed in 1925 during Leguerneyâ??s private piano and composition study with French pianist Thérèse Cahen. His second quartet, subject of this publication by Musik Fabrik, was written between November 1947 and September 1948. The four movements are: I. Allegro moderato; II. Intermezzo; III. Scherzando; IV. Presto-Andantino. This work was, in part, Leguerneyâ??s response to the Premier Quatuor à cordes (inédit) by his colleague, Henri Sauguet. Leguerney stated in a personal interview with Patrick Choukroun (18 May 1989) that: â??I wrote it a bit in opposition to Sauguetâ??s Premier Quatuor. It seemed to me that his quartet was without interest: just scratchings! I wanted to express my way of looking at it from the classical viewpoint of the past: it is almost in the spirit of Mozart, except for the harmonic language, of course. In fact, I wanted to fight against everything that has been done to a quartet since Beethovenâ??s last ones.â? The premiere of the Quatuor à cordes en ré mineur was by the Quatuor Pro Arte at the Abbaye de Royaumont. Before this performance, Poulenc sent Leguerney the following note: â??Fortunate man for whom twelve strings are enough to charm people, I wish you good luck and respectfully embrace you.â? (Handwritten letter, Reims, 4 September 1959). Leguerney was appointed artistic director of the Lumen recording company in 1951, and remained in this position until 1959. He produced four recordings of his music, including the Quatuor Pro Arteâ??s recording of the Quatuor à cordes en ré mineur (1947-1948) (Lumen, LD 2.440, 1958). This disc won the Grand Prix du Disque de lâ??Académie Charles Cros on 13 March 1959. The Pro Arteâ??s members were Suzanne Plazonich, Violin I; Chantal Beylier, Violin II; Nicole Gendreau, Viola; and Micheline Burtin, Cello. Francis Poulenc wrote to Leguerney concerning this recording: â??It is very good Leguerney. Of course, frivolous as I am and shall always remain, it is the 2nd movement that I prefer. Between us, I am like you: I prefer the scherzos after the andantes; that way one is not forced to write a Finale allegro. Yours pleases me very much, in fact, so to my ears it is III-IV-I-II, in the order of pleasure.â? (Manuscript letter, Bagnols, 14 October 1959) The radio station France I broadcast the Quatuor with on 11 July 1959 on the program Schola of the series Concert de musique contemporaine, again with the Quatuor Pro Arte. An archive recording of this broadcast exists on magnetic tape. Critic Claude Rostand wrote: â??Jacques Leguerney does not seem to have looked for special innovations either in form or language. His basic thought seems especially to have written a quartet, that is to say on one hand to have used the four voices with elegance and originality, clarity and homogeneity (four-part writing seems to always have come naturally to him, even at the piano), and on the other hand to exploit all of the supple cushioning that can result from the caress of a bow on a string.â? Critic Emile Vuillermoz wrote: â??His only ambition is to expresses clear and affectionate melodic ideas, in a highly distinguished, elegant and refined language, meaning an homage, in the beginning of our century, to the trios of the greatest stylists of our time. In fact, it is from the vocabulary of Fauré, Debussy and Ravel that he takes his grammar and syntax and that with which he carries out with his this harmonic writing that is both supple and sparse, that is so congenial to the association of four string instruments. This quartet, whose first movement is of a rare perfection, is a delicate enchantment.â? The Musik Fabrik edition of the Quatuor à cordes en ré mineur is taken from a photocopy of the composerâ??s manuscript of the full score. We also had access to the quartet parts found in Leg.
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