Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók?s Second String Quartet was composed ? with several long interruptions ? between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement ?Allegro, molto capriccioso? provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of th…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par WEIR JUDITH. “Shortly after completing my Second Quartet, I realised that all of its formal features reminded me of moments from Beethoven’s quartets. An edgy, conversational opening followed by a long cello tune; an athletic minuet and trio; a hymn-like slow movement; and a second scherzo for the finale, ending with an extended, impassioned coda. I hadn’t intended to write a Beethoven homage…

Par SIMPSON ROBERT. '. . .the quartet is a highly distinctive work, a welcome addition to Simpson's significant contribution to the British twentieth-century string quartet.'Trevor Bray, Music and Letters Vol. 68, 3 April 1989/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

String Quartet #1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart. It was commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them on 23 September 1985, Warsaw. Duration 26 minutes. The score for this work is also available on sale. / Quatuor A Cordes

Set of Parts. By Samuel Barber. String. Size 9x12 inches. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Arranged by Denes Agay. Book. Published by Music Sales. These familiar melodies for one piano, four hands are in arrangements equally easy for both players, with the melody alternating between the two. The collection includes Careless Love, Jamaica Farewell, and many more favori…

By Johann Sebastian; Gounod Bach. Arranged by Richard Proulx. For Voices: SATB (or unison). Instruments: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello, bass); organ (instruments optional). Choral Sacred. Level: easy. 5 pages. Published by GIA Publications.

((from Sunrise Mass)). By Ola Gjeilo. SATB Divisi. Walton Choral. 12 pages. Walton Music #WW1460. Published by Walton Music

Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), edited by Gewandhaus Quartet. Opus 18. Set of performance parts (parts only, score not included) for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. Bb Major. 72 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

(Parts). Composed by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Edited by Peter Jost. For String Quartet (Parts). Henle Music Folios. Softcover. G. Henle #HN1232. Published by G. Henle

For piano. Format: piano solo book. Baroque, Classical Period and Romantic Period. 208 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Schirmer.

Parts. By Dmitri Shostakovich. (Parts). DSCH. Book only. Size 8.75x11.5 inches. 66 pages. Published by DSCH.

Clarinet Duet, Trio, Quartet - Easy-Intermediate Woodwinds. Studio Ghibli. Score and parts. Yamaha Music Media #GTW01098115. Published by Yamaha Music Media

Book Only. Composed by Various. Edited by Richard Walters. Vocal Collection. Broadway. Softcover. 264 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.239695).