Arrgt: Sarah Labrousse-Baert. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Formation : Musique de Chambre, Quatuor - Instrumentation :Quatuor à Cordes : 2 Violons 1 Alto 1 Violoncelle - Niveau de Difficulté : 3/6 - Intermédiaire - Durée : 1 mn 40 s - Style Musical : Classique - Catégorie : Arrangement - Compositeur : Johann Sebastian BACH - Arrangeur : Sarah LABROUSSE-BAERT / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classique / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Contemporary String Quartet Repertoire For New and Developing Ensembles-The Discover series is part of three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge each volume contains graded works commissioned especially for this series designed for quartets formed of players of similar ability. Featuring a mixture of musical styles and genres each piece contains different elements and techniques to consolidate and enhance the players’ skills as soloists and as ensemble members. An accompanying CD provides demonstration recordings of all included pieces. Minus-one tracks are availableto download online to allow for individual practice between rehearsals. Discover Series: Contemporary string quartet repertoire for new and developing ensembles. An introduction to quartet ensemble playing for string players of grade 1-3 standard. Familiar keys common rhythms and transparent musical forms ensure the short pieces and miniatures featured within Discover are accessible to all. Emphasis is firmly focussed on playing together as a unit.

All In One for 3 String Quartets was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013 (String Quartet No.12 13 and 14 played simultaneously). Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has written a collection of three new string quartets: String Quartet no. 12 ‘Each in Each’; String Quartet no. 13 ‘Mutual Ordering’ and String Quartet no. 14 ‘Well-Tuned Sounds’. Each quartet can be played on its own; they can also played simultaneously in any combination. When all three quartets are played together as they are tonight the combined work is titled All in One. About this collection Gudmundsen-Holmgreenwrites: 'Some years ago Kronos and the vocal group Theatre of Voices performed three new pieces which I had written for the two groups: one for Theatre of Voices (Green) and two for Kronos (New Ground and No Ground). They were played and sung by each group independently – but also both groups together concurrently on top of each other as a final gesture. The combined pieces were called New Ground Green and No Ground Green. 'David liked the idea (and the result) of pairs of quartets that could be played both independently and simultaneously and asked me if the vocal quartet could be transformed into a string quartet. It could not. He then asked me to repeat the whole set-up with a new pair of quartets adding also some percussion instruments as was the case with Green for Theatre of Voices. Of course this was tempting. Furthermore David asked me to make one of the two new quartets a little easier to play. 'I began to work. The Kronos part of the pair of quartets turned out to be tough to play as David puts it. Unfortunately the ‘easier’ one was tough to play also! So I had to write one more which was then a little easier still (but still not easy). 'The three new works can be played separately and on top of each other in many different combinations resulting in different kinds of

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

Set of parts for Franz Joseph Haydn's Complete String Quartets Vol. 2 composed for String quartet. Includes 16 Famous Quartets: Op.3 Nos.3 5; Op.20 Nos.4 5 6; Op.33 Nos.2 3 6; Op.64 Nos.5 6; Op.76 Nos.1–6.

This collection of ten compositions for string quartet by Mozart includes six pieces dedicated to Joseph Haydn and three pieces composed for the king of Prussia. The King of Prussia for whom Mozart composed some of these quartets for was by all accounts a Cellist of no mean ability; especially if one may judge by these works whose Cello parts are elaborate and demanding often soaring into the upper ranges leaving the viola to take up its momentarily abandoned role as bass instrument! Works include String Quartet No. 14 in G major K387 'Spring' String Quartet No. 15 in D minor K421 String Quartet No. 16 in E flat K428 String Quartet No. 17 inB flat major K458 'The Hunt' String Quartet No. 18 in A Major K464 'Drum' String Quartet No. 19 in C major K465 'Dissonance' String Quartet No. 20 in D major K499 'Hoffmeister' String Quartet No. 21 in D major K575 'Prussian No. 1' String Quartet No. 22 in B flat major K589 'Prussian No. 2' and String Quartet No. 23 in F Major K590 'Prussian No. 3'

Set of parts for Franz Joseph Haydn's Complete String Quartets Vol. 3 composed for String quartet. Includes the works Op. 9 No. 1 in C major Op. 9 No. 3 in G major Op. 9 No. 4 in D minor Op. 9 No. 5 in B flat major Op. 9 No. 6 in A major Op. 17 No. 1 in E major Op. 17 No. 2 in F major and more.

Easy String Quartets Book 3 is the third volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes and is designed to givedeveloping string players the chance to rehearse and perform in ensemble as early as possible. Each work is well known and relatively straightforward enabling the musicians to obtain a sense of achievement and maximum enjoymentfrom their playing.Watson Forbes (1909-1997) was a British Viola player arranger and broadcaster. He studied both Violin and Viola at the Royal Academy of Music before specialising on the Viola with Sevcik. Heplayed with many famous string ensembles during his performing career before becoming Head of Music for BBC Scotland in 1964. His is best remembered for his extensive series of educational arrangements of classical music forvarious string instruments both solo and in ensemble.

This collection of Easy String Quartets includes 5 pieces suitable for players Grade 1-3. The pieces cover a wide range of musical periods and European styles from Baroque to Romantic from Italy to Austriaand England to give young players a broad spectrum while acquainting them with the basics of playing chamber music. The compositions included are: Allegretto Op. 72 No. 3 (Mendelssohn) Allegro Op. 72 No. 1(Mendelssohn) Chaconne (King Arthur) (Purcell) Ecossaise In B Minor (Schubert) and Gavotte In A (Martini). Arranged for 2 or 3 Violins Viola and Cello by Watson Forbes. Includes Parts Only.

String Quartets complete Vol.3  contains a set of parts for Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 127 130 131 132 133 and 135 composed for String quartet.

Op. 55 64 and 71 complete-Twelve String Quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn edited by Wilhelm Altmann. Op.55 Nos. 1-3 (including Razor); Op.64 Nos. 1-6 (including The Lark); Op.71 Nos. 1-3. Eulenberg eds.

Prussian Quartets-This volume opens with something unusual: opus 42 is a single work short and surprisingly easy to play; Haydn described it as 'something small and with only 3 pieces'. The Quartets op. 50 including the so-called Frog Quartet are dedicated to the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II who was a talented cellist. Even though the 'solo' at the beginning of opus 50 1 is meant as joke there are some good passages for cellists.

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