SKU: A0.861778

String Quartet No. 1 (a.k.a. Quartet) MO129B

Adapted for string quartet (two violins, viola and cello) by Mark O’Connor

Violin 1 Part (score and parts available)

Music by Mark O’Connor

20 pages - 31:00 minutes in length

Movement I (6:40)

Movement II (8:21)

Movement III (7:51)

Movement IV (7:17)

Quartet adapted for two violins, viola and cello in four movements, was commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 1990 and was premiered in August of that year. This piece represents Mark O’Connor’s first work in a classical genre. The original instrumentation called for an unorthodox combination, omitting the usual second violin part and adding bass, to highlight the contrast between his fiddling style and the classical style of the other players. Upon his adapting of the score, O’Connor discovered that in many situations, execution was much more successful with the standard string quartet configuration. The Quartet was released on the Warner Bros. recording, The Fiddle Concerto. O’Connor, Daniel Phillips, Carter Brey and Edgar Meyer were the original cast who helped usher in the new O’Connor music style which helped pave the way for many more pieces to come. In this four-movement work, O’Connor offers a multitude of insights into ways in which traditional fiddling and the classical string writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries resemble each other. The music is suited for advanced and intermediate levels.

Original music printed from the composer’s manuscripts.

Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark O’Connor

using Finale on Apple Macintosh 1989

Composed By Mark O’Connor

String Quartet No. 1 (Quartet) can be heard on The Fiddle Concerto Warner Bros. Records

Mark O’Connor - violin; Ida Kavafian – violin; Paul Neubauer – viola; Matt Haimovitz - cello

Catalogue Number MO129B

Copyright © 1989 by Mark O’Connor Music International

For more information on violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, O’Connor String Camps, Touring Ensembles, Discography, Bio, Repertoire and more, please visit

www.markoconnor.com

For information on the O’Connor Method – instructional book series for violin, viola, cello and school string orchestra programs:

www.oconnormethod.com

SKU: A0.861777

String Quartet No. 1 (a.k.a. Quartet) MO129A

Adapted for string quartet (two violins, viola and cello) by Mark O’Connor

Score (parts available)

Music by Mark O’Connor

55 pages - 31:00 minutes in length

Movement I (6:40)

Movement II (8:21)

Movement III (7:51)

Movement IV (7:17)

Quartet adapted for two violins, viola and cello in four movements, was commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 1990 and was premiered in August of that year. This piece represents Mark O’Connor’s first work in a classical genre. The original instrumentation called for an unorthodox combination, omitting the usual second violin part and adding bass, to highlight the contrast between his fiddling style and the classical style of the other players. Upon his adapting of the score, O’Connor discovered that in many situations, execution was much more successful with the standard string quartet configuration. The Quartet was released on the Warner Bros. recording, The Fiddle Concerto. O’Connor, Daniel Phillips, Carter Brey and Edgar Meyer were the original cast who helped usher in the new O’Connor music style which helped pave the way for many more pieces to come. In this four-movement work, O’Connor offers a multitude of insights into ways in which traditional fiddling and the classical string writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries resemble each other. The music is suited for advanced and intermediate levels.

Original music printed from the composer’s manuscripts.

Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark O’Connor

using Finale on Apple Macintosh 1989

Composed By Mark O’Connor

String Quartet No. 1 (Quartet) can be heard on The Fiddle Concerto Warner Bros. Records

Mark O’Connor - violin; Ida Kavafian – violin; Paul Neubauer – viola; Matt Haimovitz - cello

Catalogue Number MO129A

Copyright © 1989 by Mark O’Connor Music International

For more information on violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, O’Connor String Camps, Touring Ensembles, Discography, Bio, Repertoire and more, please visit

www.markoconnor.com

For information on the O’Connor Method – instructional book series for violin, viola, cello and school string orchestra programs:

www.oconnormethod.com

SKU: A0.1428523

Scored for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. There is an alternative part for Violin 3 (Viola) and an optional part for Contrabass so the piece may be performed by a String Orchestra.

This piece is excellent for practising ensemble skills as well as for filling that small gap in your program with something light and entertaining. You can use as much rubato as you like.

François-Joseph Gossec (1734 – 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. His Gavotte, from his opera Rosine, ou L'épouse abandonnée (1786), remains familiar in popular culture because Carl Stalling and Charles M. Jones used arrangements of it in several Warner Brothers cartoons. Arguably the most notable of these is Porky Pig's dance to an uncredited version of Gossec's Gavotte in Jones’ Porky's Cafe (1942). (Wikipedia).