Tommaso Vitali's Chaconne as arranged for Viola with Piano accompaniment by Alan H. Arnold.

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

Par SILVESTROV VALENTIN. Cette musique a été créée à la mémoire de Larissa Bondarenko, l'épouse du compositeur. Le travail est une combinaison hybride de forme strophique lied et Baroque lamento (plus ou moins chaconne). L'idiome chromatique exquis est étroitement liée à la ' Requiem for Larissa ' (1997/99) composée en parallèle./ Répertoire / Alto ou Violoncelle et Piano

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.

Par REBEL JEAN-FERY. Fantaisie. Paris, l'auteur, Le Clerc, 1729 - oeuvre publiée en partitionLes Plaisirs Champêtres. Paris, Le Clerc, s.d. (=1734) - oeuvre publiée en partitionAnnexe : Les parodies nouvelles. ExtraitsPrésentation de Catherine CessacCette édition est préfacée par Catherine Cessac, spécialiste de Rebel, auteur d'un livre sur ce compositeur. / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Musique de Chambre (Fac-similé)

Par JUNGK KLAUS. / Répertoire / Clarinette, Quintette à vent, Flûte Traversière Co

Par PURCELL HENRY. This edition of Purcell's Chacony In G Minor, Z 730 was prepared in 1947-8 for a performance on the 30th January 1948 by the Collegium Musicum Zurich which was conducted by Benjamin Britten, in the Kleiner Tonhallesaal in Zurich. This piece is written for string quartet or a string orchestra./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes ou Orchestre à Cordes)

Par MOREL / BLOCH. / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Basse de Viole et Basse Continue

26 Easy Pieces from 4 Centuries. Les pièces, qui conviennent non seulement aux jeunes, mais également aux adultes débutants, sont adaptées, dans leur diversité stylistique, aussi bien pour des concerts que pour des représentations dans un cadre sacré. Alors que certaines des pièces ont été composées par les compositeurs pour l'écriture pour cordes à quatre voix, l'éditeur utilise également des oeuvres pour piano qu'il a arrangées - aussi proches que possible de l'original - pour quatuor à cordes. / Niveau : 2 / Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

Arrangeur: Benjamin Britten. Par PURCELL HENRY. Durée: 4', Format: New Edition portrait/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes ou Orchestre à Cordes)