SKU: A0.1071616

String Quartet Music for Christmas - AND it's not just a quartet playing out of a hymnal.  .

SKU: A0.1156755

I have been a fan of the music by Heitor Villa-Lobos since my teenage years in São Paulo, Brazil, 1959-66. It was there when I first first heard his Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, with soprano solo and eight cellos. The memory of that music will forever haunt me. I then recently discovered through a CD box set recorded by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano that Villa-Lobos wrote 17 string quartets. I guess he wanted to beat the number of string quartets that Beethoven wrote which is 16. So this being my 17th string quartet I wanted to pay homage to Villa-Lobos and dedicate this work to him, in memoriam. I took his first string quartet as a model, in terms of the titles he gave to the movements of that work. I. Cantilena … Andante II. Brincadeira … Allegretto scherzando III. Canto lírico … Moderato IV. Cançoneta … Andantino quasi allegretto V. Saltando como um Saci … Presto VI. Melancolia … Lento, Andante NB: the titles of the movements for the rest of his string quartets (nos. 2 to 17) have the same standard classical four-movement designations of fast/allegro, slow/adagio, scherzo and fast/allegro. credits.

SKU: A0.1325464

Arrangement for String Quartet of the following songs:

ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH - Traditional French Song
DECK THE HALL - Welsh Song
JINGLE BELLS - James Lord Pierpont 
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS - English Folk Song
SILENT NIGHT - Franz Xaver Gruber

Full score and individual parts included.

SKU: A0.1328212

Arrangement for String Quartet of the following songs:

ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH - Traditional French Song
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS - English Folk Song.
SILENT NIGHT - Franz Xaver Gruber

Full score and individual parts included.

SKU: A0.508952

The famous Corta-jaca, the name with which the Gaucho tango became popular, is one of the most recorded and known songs by Chiquinha Gonzaga, alongside Ó abre alas, Lua Branca and Atraente. He was born on the stages of musical theaters, where he was danced in the final scene of the burlesque operetta of national customs Zizinha Maxixe, imitated from French by an anonymous author, performed at Teatro Éden Lavradio, in August 1895. Actor Machado Careca (José Machado Pinheiro e Costa ), anonymous author of the play, ended up putting verses in Corta-jaca's music, helping to popularize it, especially after its version was recorded on disk by the duo Os Geraldos. Throughout history, Corta-jaca attended other stages and repertoires: coffee-singers, beer-beauties, choro circles… But it was at the Palácio do Catete, in 1914, that it reached its glory. Performed on the guitar by First Lady Nair de Teffé, it caused political scandal and ended up calling the administration Hermes da Fonseca. The reaction can be measured by the impassioned speech that Senator Rui Barbosa delivered from the gallery. When inquiring what the cut-jaca that he had heard so much about is, he concludes: “The lowest, the most foul, the rudest of all wild dances, the twin sister of batuque, cateretê and samba. But at presidential receptions, the cut-jaca is performed with all the honors of Wagner's music, and we don't want the conscience of this country to revolt, our faces redden and the youth to laugh!� Never before in the history of Brazil has eminently popular music been performed in the seat of government, in front of the diplomatic corps and the country's elite. Corta-jaca became a classic of the great repertoire of Brazilian instrumental music, deserving recordings, among others, by Abel Ferreira, Altamiro Carrilho, Antonio Adolfo, Artur Moreira Lima, Clara Sverner, Conjunto Regional do Donga, Eudóxia de Barros, Guio de Morais, Itamar Assieré, Leandro Braga, Marcus Viana, Maria Teresa Madeira, Marcelo Verzoni, Paulo Moura, Radamés Gnatalli, Rosária Gatti, Talitha Peres, Turíbio Santos, numerous bands and some sung versions. It was also written by the conductor for singing and piano and for a small orchestra: oboe, viola, timpani, horns (fá), bassoon. Edinha Diniz, 2011.

SKU: A0.927146

This is an arrangement for String Quartet in the key of  d minor.  When I wrote this arrengement i was  listening to Flowers in the Dirt by Paul McCartney and therefore under heavy influence of the original arrangement. If the staff think this arrangement is an illegal please let me know and I will remove it immediatly. The piece is absolutley lovely an and I've kept it in my heart ever since I heard it the first time. The piece is for Proffesionals advanced amateurs and students. 
Questions are answered at mikke.landberg@gmail.com.

SKU: A0.815496

Lovely romantic song from the 80's. This is based on the version that Paul Young sang. Melody is high enough to be easily heard outdoors. 2nd violin requires shifting. Some tricky rhythms.

SKU: A0.815481

Beautiful early 80's song about love and harmony. Great for weddings, prelude, reception, or any special occasion. High enough to be easily heard outdoors. Requires some shifting in violins and viola.

SKU: A0.861781

String Quartet No. 1 (a.k.a. Quartet) MO129E

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

Cello Part (score and parts available)

Music by Mark O’Connor

17 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 MO129E

Copyright © 1989 by Mark O’Connor Music International

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