Quartets For All - Viola Ensemble

Irish Music for Strings Score + Parties. Par AUTEURS DIVERS. The cheerful and often melancholic melodies of Ireland lend themselves well for easy string quartet or ensemble repertoire. Wonderful tunes such as 'A Lovely Lass” and 'The Foggy Dew” have been arranged by Speckert for two violins, viola and cello. In all pieces the viola can be replaced by a third violin. 'Fiddle Tunes” forms part of the 'Easy String Ensemble” series./ Répertoire / Ensemble à Cordes

Accompaniment for String Quartet and Piano-Based on a chorale motif from the last movement of his Sunrise Mass Ola Gjeilo has developed the beautiful melody into a free-standing anthem. Score and parts for the optional String Quartet or Ensemble. Duration: ca. 3:30. Contains: FULL SCORE VIOLIN VIOLIN VIOLA VIOLONCELLO PIANO

Study score of the Quintet for Trumpet and String Quartet. This work was commissioned by the University of Aberdeen Aberdeen City Council and the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. It was first performed on 25thFebruary 1999 by the Yggdrasil Quartet and John Wallace (trumpet). Duration c. 28 minutes. Scored for Trumpet in C Violin Viola Cello. Instrumental parts are available on sale.

Favorite Carols arranged for Beginner String Quartets-Favourite carols and festive tunes have here been creatively arranged for the beginner quartet (Grade 1???2 ) by the ever-resourceful Mary Cohen. From the more solemn to the extremely boisterous these arrangements explore a wide range of musical styles as well as many interesting string effects (including simple harmonics col legno pizzicato and tremolo). Conscious of the limited rehearsal time available in the mad rush up to the annual carol service or Christmas concert Mary has also provided invaluable technique tips to help deal with problems which might otherwise disrupt the musical flow. There are plenty of opportunities for audience participation too for the more adventurous!

Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath for mixed Ensemble.Quartet for Heart And Breath was commissioned for Kronos Quartet by the 2009 MusicNOW Festival. The mixedEnsemble arrangement was premiered by yMusic.Instrumentation: Flute Clarinet in Bb Trumpet in Bb Violin Viola Violoncello and Double Bass (optional).'This piece is based around the idea of using the widelyvarying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathing rates of the players are used in alternation with the individual performers? heartrates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly and delicately with little or no vibrato so as to be able to hear their heartbeats adequately.This in combination with thenatural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?: starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out ofsync with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.The performers wear stethoscopes positioned over their hearts so that each can follow his orher own heart rate. Two eighth notes/quavers correspond to the two sounds of a normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccato and irregular rhythm they hear. When instructed to ?play to breath? the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without any attempt to make it metronomic. For wind players this means that the phrase isextended to encompass the whole of their natural breath without straining to hold for as long as possible. When one instrument is designated the leader their breath will determine the starts of phrases and the procession from