String quartet - difficult - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q771471

‘hana no hanataba’. Composed by Julian Anderson. Downloadable. Duration 23 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q771471. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q771471).

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacing and timing. Unlike many of my works this quartet had no extra-musical inspiration, and in principle should have no subtitle. Certain features already present in my music became more prominent in this new work: modes (limited collections of pitches) have always helped me to focus musical character, but here a sense of key note for each mode became much more pronounced, as did the difference between modes for each section of the work. A sort of hybrid key-system emerged (even with equivalents of major and minor) which is not normal tonality, nor does it aim to imitate it. Unlike tonality this key-system includes noises, extended performance techniques and intervals outside Western tuning as available resources. What I hope it does is to focus the listening experience onto different musical areas, to encourage a sense of both modulation from one area to another and to give the music a sense of goal. No conscious knowledge of this is needed when listening: the music should communicate directly on its own.Here, then, is this collection of six musical colours, related and unrelated, different yet belonging together, variable yet in a set order. Hence the subtitle, chosen both for both its sound and its sense: ‘hana no hanataba’ meaning, in Japanese, ‘bouquet of flowers’.A brief description:1)Moderately fast. Short droplets of sounds gather increasing momentum. 2)Very fast. Canons and bells at different speeds.3)Very slow – fast – very slow – very fast – very slow. The main slow movement and its main scherzo. An emphasis on non-tempered tunings and on inhaling and exhaling waves of sound. The slow sections feature florid melodic writing. In the exuberant scherzo competing duos and trios create imaginary folk music.4)Extremely fast/extremely slow. Open strings and harmonics fuse into a single string instrument – like a sort of large resonating Medieval tromba marina.5)Very fast. A variation on movement 2). Variation, Schoenberg told Cage, is just a sort of repetition ‘with some things changed and others not.’6)Slow - Very Fast - Fast – Slow. The opening calm harmonies and florid melodies evoke movement 3) in different music. The fast part features one overt theme: a fanfare-like call to attention which is subject to extensive development. There is much use of non-Western tuning. At its climax the music freezes into a frieze – a wall of sound standing in front of the audience with increasing obstinacy and certainty as the work grinds towards its cadence.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1306223

By Frank Sinatra. By George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Arranged by Kenneth Abeling. Film/TV,Jazz. 14 pages. LINCOLN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS #895613. Published by LINCOLN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS (A0.1306223).

They Can’t Take That Away from Me, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin arranged for String Quartet. This is an intermediate to advanced intermediate level arrangement of the Academy Award nominated song introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance. It has been featured in several other Broadway musicals, films and covered by numerous recording artists as well. The playing time is approximately 3:30. To view and listen to this piece in its entirety as well hundreds of other arrangement and transcriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit: https://lincolnmusicpublications.com/.

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1429283

By Taylor Swift Feat. Post Malone. By Austin Post, Jack Antonoff, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Chamber,Folk,Pop. 12 pages. Glauco Fernandes #1009410. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1429283).

Title: Exclusive Chamber Music Score - Fortnight by Taylor Swift (Simplified Arrangement)

Product Description:

Introducing our simplified arrangement of Fortnight, one of Taylor Swift's enchanting melodies, now adapted for chamber music ensemble. This version offers an accessible and exciting way to experience contemporary music within a classical context, ideal for a wide range of musical performances.

For students, this arrangement is a perfect opportunity to take on new challenges while learning. Combining classical elements with modern pop music allows them to expand their technical and expressive skills, exploring popular forms of music in a traditionally classical setting. It serves as a motivating tool that encourages musical development through repertoire that resonates with their contemporary tastes, keeping learning dynamic and engaging.

Teachers will find this simplified score to be an exceptional educational resource. It serves as a practical way to introduce modern arrangements into music classes, helping to demonstrate the application of classical techniques in popular songs. This material is particularly useful for illustrating musical concepts in an educational and engaging way, keeping students interested and active in the learning process.

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String Quartet Cello,Piano,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1429282

By Taylor Swift Feat. Post Malone. By Austin Post, Jack Antonoff, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Chamber,Folk,Pop. 12 pages. Glauco Fernandes #1009409. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1429282).

Title: Exclusive Chamber Music Score - Fortnight by Taylor Swift (Simplified Arrangement)

Product Description:

Introducing our simplified arrangement of Fortnight, one of Taylor Swift's enchanting melodies, now adapted for chamber music ensemble. This version offers an accessible and exciting way to experience contemporary music within a classical context, ideal for a wide range of musical performances.

For students, this arrangement is a perfect opportunity to take on new challenges while learning. Combining classical elements with modern pop music allows them to expand their technical and expressive skills, exploring popular forms of music in a traditionally classical setting. It serves as a motivating tool that encourages musical development through repertoire that resonates with their contemporary tastes, keeping learning dynamic and engaging.

Teachers will find this simplified score to be an exceptional educational resource. It serves as a practical way to introduce modern arrangements into music classes, helping to demonstrate the application of classical techniques in popular songs. This material is particularly useful for illustrating musical concepts in an educational and engaging way, keeping students interested and active in the learning process.

Secure your copy of the Fortnight score for chamber music ensemble and add to your collection a piece that blends modernity with accessibility, perfect for enhancing both practice and teaching of music!

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String Quartet Cello,Piano,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1429281

By Taylor Swift Feat. Post Malone. By Austin Post, Jack Antonoff, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Chamber,Folk,Pop. 12 pages. Glauco Fernandes #1009408. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1429281).

Title: Exclusive Chamber Music Score - Fortnight by Taylor Swift (Simplified Arrangement)

Product Description:

Introducing our simplified arrangement of Fortnight, one of Taylor Swift's enchanting melodies, now adapted for chamber music ensemble. This version offers an accessible and exciting way to experience contemporary music within a classical context, ideal for a wide range of musical performances.

For students, this arrangement is a perfect opportunity to take on new challenges while learning. Combining classical elements with modern pop music allows them to expand their technical and expressive skills, exploring popular forms of music in a traditionally classical setting. It serves as a motivating tool that encourages musical development through repertoire that resonates with their contemporary tastes, keeping learning dynamic and engaging.

Teachers will find this simplified score to be an exceptional educational resource. It serves as a practical way to introduce modern arrangements into music classes, helping to demonstrate the application of classical techniques in popular songs. This material is particularly useful for illustrating musical concepts in an educational and engaging way, keeping students interested and active in the learning process.

Secure your copy of the Fortnight score for chamber music ensemble and add to your collection a piece that blends modernity with accessibility, perfect for enhancing both practice and teaching of music!

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Taylor Swift sheet music, chamber music, simplified arrangement, music education, ensemble score, classical arrangement of pop music, piano, wedding.

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1429284

By Taylor Swift Feat. Post Malone. By Austin Post, Jack Antonoff, and Taylor Swift. Arranged by Glauco Fernandes. Chamber,Folk,Pop. 12 pages. Glauco Fernandes #1009411. Published by Glauco Fernandes (A0.1429284).

Title: Exclusive Chamber Music Score - Fortnight by Taylor Swift (Simplified Arrangement)

Product Description:

Introducing our simplified arrangement of Fortnight, one of Taylor Swift's enchanting melodies, now adapted for chamber music ensemble. This version offers an accessible and exciting way to experience contemporary music within a classical context, ideal for a wide range of musical performances.

For students, this arrangement is a perfect opportunity to take on new challenges while learning. Combining classical elements with modern pop music allows them to expand their technical and expressive skills, exploring popular forms of music in a traditionally classical setting. It serves as a motivating tool that encourages musical development through repertoire that resonates with their contemporary tastes, keeping learning dynamic and engaging.

Teachers will find this simplified score to be an exceptional educational resource. It serves as a practical way to introduce modern arrangements into music classes, helping to demonstrate the application of classical techniques in popular songs. This material is particularly useful for illustrating musical concepts in an educational and engaging way, keeping students interested and active in the learning process.

Secure your copy of the Fortnight score for chamber music ensemble and add to your collection a piece that blends modernity with accessibility, perfect for enhancing both practice and teaching of music!

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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.828949

Composed by Jeremiah Clarke. Arranged by David W. Cason. Baroque,Wedding. Score and parts. 6 pages. Cantabile Music #6707801. Published by Cantabile Music (A0.828949).

Second Act Tune (aka Trumpet Tune) from The Island Princess (1699) by Jeremiah Clarke, arranged for string quartet. A popular wedding song often misattributed to Henry Purcell, this edition is from the composer's manuscript and features the original harmonies and rhythms. Play the eighths in the notes inégales style for the familiar sound.

String Quartet Cello,Double Bass,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.746989

By Dizzy Gillespie. By Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Jazz. 13 pages. Keith Terrett #5820835. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.746989).

A great sounding arrangement of A Night in Tunisia, your String Orchestra will love it!

A jazz solo is written out for you, if you wish you can improvise on the given chord symbols!

A Night in Tunisia is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie around 1941–42, while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard.

It is also known as Interlude. Gillespie called the tune Interlude and said some genius decided to call it 'Night in Tunisia'. He said the tune was composed at the piano at Kelly's Stables in New York. He gave Frank Paparelli co-writer credit in compensation for some unrelated transcription work, but Paparelli had nothing to do with the song. A Night in Tunisia was one of the signature pieces of Gillespie's bebop big band, and he also played it with his small groups. In January 2004, The Recording Academy added the 1946 Victor recording by Gillespie to the Grammy Hall of Fame.

On the album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Art Blakey introduced his 1954 cover version with this statement: At this time we'd like to play a tune [that] was written by the famous Dizzy Gillespie. I feel rather close to this tune because I was right there when he composed it in Texas on the bottom of a garbage can. The audience laughs, but Blakey responds, Seriously. The liner notes say, The Texas department of sanitation can take a low bow.

The complex ostinato bass line in the A section is notable for avoiding the standard walking bass pattern of straight quarter notes, and the use of oscillating half-step-up/half-step-down chord changes (using the Sub V, a tritone substitute chord for the dominant chord) gives the song a unique, mysterious feeling. The B section is notable for having an unresolved minor II-V, since the chord progression of the B section is taken from the B section of the standard Alone Together, causing the V chord to lead back into the Sub V of the A section.

Like many of Gillespie's tunes, it features a short written introduction and a brief interlude that occurs between solo sections - in this case, a twelve-bar sequence leading into a four-bar break for the next soloist.

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1473062

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Baroque,Chamber,Contest,Festival,Halloween,Historic. 36 pages. Jmsgu3 #1050683. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1473062).

The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most famous organ compositions. It follows a typical North German structure with three main sections - a free opening (Toccata), a fugal section (fugue), and a short free closing section.

The exact date of composition is uncertain, but it's believed to have been written before 1708. There is no surviving autograph manuscript. The oldest known source is an undated copy by Johannes Ringk, a student of one of Bach's pupils. It was first published in 1833 through the efforts of composer Felix Mendelssohn during the early Bach Revival period.

It gained widespread recognition after being featured in Disney's 1940 film Fantasia, where it was adapted for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski. The piece has become strongly associated with horror films and Gothic imagery in Western culture.

The Toccata begins with dramatic flourishes and arpeggios, showcasing the organist's virtuosity. The fugue is characterized by overlapping repetitions of the central theme in different melodic lines. It employs simple triadic harmony but includes some unexpected elements, such as a C minor subject entry and a solo pedal statement.

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.937308

Composed by Roy Moore. Arranged by Hugh Levey. Contemporary,Film/TV. Score and parts. 14 pages. Woodwindly.com #6702441. Published by woodwindly.com (A0.937308).

STRING QUARTET (2 Violins, Viola, 'Cello)

This charming and witty waltz was originally scored for accordion, bass and percussion, in the style of French café music. It was written by David Croft and Roy Moore as the theme tune for the BBC’s hit comedy series ‘Allo ‘Allo! Not only did Croft write the theme tune, but he was also the scriptwriter with writing partner Jeremy Lloyd. The original theme is a Fast Waltz, but this delicate and intricate string quartet arrangement is best performed a little slower. This allows the detail and quirky harmonies to be savoured and enjoyed.

The TV series ‘Allo ‘Allo with its iconic theme tune will be fondly remembered by anyone from the UK of a ‘certain age’, and by those who know it from the many repeats on cable and streaming channels. It was also broadcast in other parts of the world and ran for 9 series between 1984 and1992. The show was set in occupied France during the second world war and featured the café of René Artois. René had to contend with serving food and drink to the German officers in his café, while supporting members of the French resistance and concealing British spies. He also did his best to conceal his love affairs from his wife. The comedy was very much of its time but the music is especially delightful.

Duration: 1 minutes 47 seconds

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1237472

By a-ha. By Magne Furuholmne, Morton Harket, and Pal Waaktaar. Arranged by AZSAP MUSiC. Pop. 8 pages. AZSAP MUSiC #832986. Published by AZSAP MUSiC (A0.1237472).

Product Title: Take On Me by A-Ha - String Quartet Arrangement

Product Description:

Rediscover the '80s pop sensation Take On Me by a-ha in a whole new light with our expertly arranged string quartet rendition. Perfect for bringing a wave of nostalgia to your event, this arrangement breathes fresh life into a classic, making it a superb choice for weddings, parties, and other special occasions.

Key Features:

1. **Timeless Nostalgia:** Take On Me is a beloved '80s hit that has stood the test of time. Our string quartet arrangement pays homage to the original while adding a classical twist, creating a unique and nostalgic musical experience.

2. **Versatile Performance:** Whether you're planning a wedding ceremony, cocktail party, or corporate event, this arrangement suits various settings, infusing your occasion with the charm and elegance of a live string quartet.

3. **Professional Quality:** Our arrangement is professionally notated, ensuring that each member of your quartet has a finely crafted part that complements the others, resulting in a harmonious and polished performance.

4. **Customizable Interpretation:** While the arrangement is complete as written, it also allows for artistic interpretation, giving your ensemble the opportunity to add a personal touch to your performance.

5. **Instant Download:** Skip the wait for physical sheet music - our digital format enables immediate access, making rehearsal and preparation a breeze.

Let the strings of Take On Me transport your event to a place where nostalgia meets contemporary sophistication. This arrangement is designed to captivate your audience, providing a memorable and emotive musical backdrop for your special moments. Order your copy today and embark on a musical journey that bridges the gap between generations and musical genres.

String Quartet String Quartet - Digital Download

SKU: A0.977356

By Dionne Warwick. By Burt Bacharach. Arranged by Des McNutty. Soul. Score and parts. 16 pages. Des Press #6445803. Published by Des Press (A0.977356).

Do you Know the Way to San Jose was written for Dionne Warwick and featured on her album Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls in 1968. It became her biggest hit so far; selling over 3, 500, 000 copies worldwide and securing her first Grammy award, for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, in 1969. Warwick herself thought it was a dumb song.  

This arrangement for string quartet is a relatively straight-forward idiomatic transcription. Muted backings and pizzicato in the cello give an easy-listening feel. It is in the same tonalities as the original recording, so you could even play along with it for fun.

The level is on the easier side of advanced; quickly rehearsed by professional quartets and an accessible challenge for experienced students.

Enjoy!