SKU: A0.1265763

The traditional hymn that is generally used during Advent or when the topic is about Christ's Second Coming has been freshly arranged for a String Quartet (Violin (2), Viola, Cello) with Piano accompaniment.  Accessible and appropriate for any church setting.  An accompaniment track is also available.

SKU: A0.1028335

SKU: A0.540241

This is a piece written in 3 movements for string quartet. Challenging work that includes a variety of techniques, meter changes, dynamics from pp to ff and requires a lot of precision. Written by a Brazilian female composer. 1st movement - Dawn Colours 2nd movement - The Scape 3rd movement - Freedom This work was inspired by the story of four wild horses trapped in some sort of stable. The first movement represents the dawn and all its colors formed by the first sun rays meeting small raindrops. The second movement is about the horse’s fury and their exhausting attempt to break through barriers and escape imprisonment. The third movement is the sound of freedom, when they run wild, free and aimlessly.

SKU: A0.1006442

This is a programmatic piece about nightfall, night, and the dawn. Having worked primarily nightshift for the past few years, my life began a somewhat alternative nature – my day time was illuminated by the moon, and I watched the sun rise every day for three and a half years…I saw the city through different eyes, and watched as various denizens of the night would emerge and cavort beneath The Midnight Sun. I was exposed to an entirely different culture and learned that the city really didn’t sleep after all. The piece starts with the decline of the sun as the shadows grow longer and the creatures of the night begin to emerge beneath the stars. Secondly, we observe the midnight moon which acts as our illumination in the dark of night. Continuing on, the piece begins its celestial dance among the stars of the Northern hemisphere and finally ends with the emergence of dawn – the night slipping away like fragile tendrils of fog, or the vague ether of a dream. David Jaedyn Conley, 2005 Composer David Jaedyn Conley moves easily between the stridency of the Moderns and the sweetness of the Romantics. He is equally adept at writing polyrhythmic ensemble percussion and lyrical contrapuntal melodies. The result is both lush and austere, always evocative. CNET.COM.

SKU: A0.1502697

A Rivendell String Quartet Arrangement - The Pop Standards Series

The popular ballad, My Romance, was originally written for the Billy Rose production of Jumbo in 1935, by possibly the greatest songwriting team in the history of the Great American Songbook, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. 

This beautiful new string quartet arrangement is respectfully dedicated to the incomparable soprano Dawn Upshaw, who loves this music as much as I do!

(The audio sample begins at measure 13)

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SKU: A0.1028516

This is a short five movement piece for string quartet. Each movement is only about one minute each. And each movement is one line of a tanka that I wrote about Snow (Yuki). I wrote the second movement first and all of the material in the other four movements appears in or is derived from the second movement. Given this, one can think of the first movement as a prelude with the second movement being the main movement. The fifth movement re-states the main motifs of the first four movements, combining them into one large polyphonic mass.

Unable to sleep I listen throughout the night to the silent song of falling snow in my yard. With the soft dawn, satori.

• The first movement is built around the pentatonic scale F# G B C# D. (The Japanese Hirajoshi Scale; 平調�� )
• The second movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A.
• The third movement is built around the pentatonic scale D Eb G A Bb.
• The fourth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C Dd F G Ab, but does not strictly adhere to the scale in places.
• The fifth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A, but does not strictly adhere to the scale in places

SKU: A0.649570