3 String Quartets ; Quartets, Strings, Op. 76, No. 2, D Minor
Author: Joseph Haydn
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
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Guide to Chamber Music
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0486316726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritative guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces by 55 composers. A must for music lovers and musicians alike. "No lover of chamber music should be without this Guide." — John Barkham Reviews.
The Four and the One
Author: David Rounds
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.
Three String Quartets, Op. 150
Author: Ferdinand Ries
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published:
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1987208307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough often remembered primarily for his published recollections about his famous teacher Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838) was an accomplished composer in his own right. Among his many works are twenty-seven string quartets composed between the years of 1795 and 1834. His Three String Quartets, Op. 150, first published by Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn in 1828, evince his considerable imagination and skill. While these quartets borrow elements from the then-popular quatuor brillant style, Ries’s careful attention to motivic organization and polyphonic writing elevates these works to a higher level of artistic sophistication. While technically brilliant writing for the first violin remains at the forefront in Quartet no. 3, Quartets nos. 1 and 2 reveal more complex formal processes and better integration of their virtuosic first violin parts. In this volume, Quartets nos. 1 and 3 have been carefully edited based on the composer’s autographs, while Quartet no. 2, the autograph of which is now lost, is based on the original Simrock print.
Catalog of Sound Recordings
Author: Sibley Music Library
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree String Quartets, Op. 2
Author: Andreas Romberg
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published:
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1987208404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German composer and violin virtuoso Andreas Romberg (1767–1821) wrote extensively for the string quartet beginning in the 1790s. His earliest forays into the genre were greeted with enthusiastic approval from Joseph Haydn, to whom Romberg dedicated his Three String Quartets, Op. 2, composed between 1797 and 1799 and first published in 1802. Featuring extensive employment of contrapuntal writing and flexible handling of musical function, these quartets reveal Romberg to be a masterful and imaginative composer deserving of rediscovery. The original notation in these quartets has been carefully edited in this volume to encourage modern performers to exercise freedom in their interpretation of ornamentation, dynamics, and articulation. This edition is based on the composer’s autographs of Quartets nos. 1 and 3 and the original Simrock print of Quartet no. 2, the autograph of which is now lost.
Con Brio
Author: Nat Brandt
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2000-07-26
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1462093973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song....Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello....Only Roisman went quietly on with his part, untouched by the pandemonium around him, playing Beethoven with his noble tone and elegant bowing." Here were four men with personalities as varied as their ways of playing. Yet when they played, they produced a perfect union of instrumental voices and interpretive nuances that not only created an entirely new audience for chamber music in America but also made the Budapest String Quartet the premier chamber music group of the twentieth century.
Holberg Suite
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Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Published: 1985-03
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780769279404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Aus Holbergs Zeit, Suite im alten Stil, Op.40" - now more commonly known as the "Holberg Suite" - was written in 1884 for the 200th anniversary celebration of playwright Ludvig Holberg's birth. Originally for piano, the composer scored it for strings the following year, conducting the newly-completed arrangement at a March concert in Bergen. The Suite consists of a Prelude and four dances characteristic of the 18th century. The work was meant to capture the feel of the era of Holberg's lifetime and has become one of Grieg's most beloved and performed works, especially in the present setting for strings. This new edition by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr. has been thoroughly researched to bring you a beautiful score as the composer intended it.
Quartet, opus 76, no. 3 in C major
Author: Joseph Haydn
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerforming Brahms
Author: Michael Musgrave
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-02
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521652735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA great deal of evidence survives about how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence - found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings, and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars. This book brings the most important evidence together into one volume. It also includes discussions by leading Brahms scholars of the many issues raised by the evidence. The period spanned by the life of Brahms and the following generation saw a crucial transition in performance style. As a result, modern performance practices differ significantly from those of Brahms's time. By exploring the musical styles and habits of Brahms's era, this book will help musicians and scholars understand Brahms's music better and bring fresh ideas to present-day performance. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the accompanying CD of historic recordings - including a performance by Brahms himself.
