SKU: XC.SB2220
ISBN 9781644021309. 9 x 12 inches.
Adaptable Quartets for Christmas contains 22 newly arranged quartets written at grades 1.5 to 3. Since it’s creation in 2019, Tyler Arcari and Matthew R. Putnam’s Adaptable Ensemble series has emerged as a leading resource in flexible instrumentation and this new addition to the series for Christmastime is no exception. Designed to be used with any combination of four instruments, the possible combinations are endless! Play these quartets as traditional four instrument chamber works, or expand your instrumentation to include the entire ensemble. Tyler and Matthew use their experience as music educators to craft quartets that are fun to play, and musically stimulating.
SKU: XC.SB2009
ISBN 9781644020548. UPC: 812598035520. 9 x 12 inches.
Adaptable Quartets contains 21 newly-composed or arranged quartets that can be flexibly used with any combination of string instruments, making them an invaluable resource in the modern orchestra room! Written at an accessible 1.5-3 grade level, Adaptable Quartets follow the popular Adaptable Duets and Trios books by the same composers. Tyler Arcari and Matthew R. Putnam bring with them a wealth of educational experience as music educators to craft quartets that are fun to play and musically stimulating. Adaptable Quartets are sure to become an instant favorite. String editing by Diana Traietta.CONTENTSAbide with Me (Monk) Agincourt Carol (English Folk Song) The Barber of Seville (Rossini) Be Thou My Vision (Trad. Irish) Capstone (Arcari) Chorale - Jupiter (Holst) Country Gardens (Trad. Morris Dance) Curse of Tortuga (Arcari) Dawn of the Century - March (Paull) Fortune Favors the Bold (Putnam) Gesu Bambino (Yon) Go Tell It on the Mountain (Spiritual) Greensleeves (Trad. English Folk Song) Home on the Range (Kelly) In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) Les Toreadors - Carmen (Bizet) Scimitar! (Matthew R. Putnam) Sea Shanty (19th Century Sea Shanty) Song Without Words - Second Suite in F (Holst) The Emperor Waltz (Strauss II) When Johnny Comes Marching Home (American Folk Song).
SKU: FG.55011-510-1
ISBN 9790550115101.
Matthew Whittall's preface to Bright Ferment (2019): I have a complicated history with the string quartet. Actually, it's not that complicated. I spent months writing a huge one in my early twenties and hastily withdrew it after a long delayed premiere, vowing never to write another. In a typical case of karmic retribution, my fear of the form would eventually be overcome by the unrefusable offer to write the compulsory piece for the Banff International String Quartet Competition in my native Canada. The short duration requested, about nine minutes, also felt like a good way to wade gingerly back into the medium. The title was originally just a nice-sounding pair of words that surfaced in a brainstorming session with fellow composer Alex Freeman over an injudicious amount of fermented barley. When I looked it up later, I found that it was a phrase of older coinage, seemingly used more for poetic resonance than any fixed meaning. Ferment by itself denotes a state of confusion, change or lack of order. With bright, it takes on a more positive connotation with regard to society and creativity: a wild profusion of ideas barely checked by reason. (It may not actually mean that, but it describes this piece nicely, so let's go with it.) Fermentation in its trendy culinary usage is also hinted at via a recurrent percolating device of scattered pizzicati. As one may guess from the tone of this introduction, there is little attempt at gravity in Bright Ferment, the only means by which I felt I could sidestep the historical and expressive weight of the string quartet genre. Styles, gestures and moods are tossed around, cross-cut and abandoned in stream-of-consciousness fashion, connected by little except an intuitive sense of rightness in their juxtaposition. If the piece acquires depth in spite of me, it will only be because its disparate parts amplify and strengthen each other simply by being together - much like the ensemble itself. Bright Ferment was commissioned by the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with additional funding from the Americas Society (New York), for the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Duration: ca. 9 minutes.
SKU: XC.SB2102
ISBN 9781644020661. UPC: 812598038538. 9 x 12 inches.
Adaptable Trios for Christmas contains 27 newly arranged trios written at grades 1.5 to 3. Since it’s creation in 2019, Tyler Arcari and Matthew R. Putnam’s Adaptable Ensemble series has emerged as a leading resource in flexible instrumentation and this new addition to the series for Christmastime is no exception. Designed to be used with any combination of three string instruments, the possible combinations are endless! Play these trios as traditional three instrument chamber works, or expand your instrumentation to include the entire ensemble. Tyler and Matthew use their experience as music educators to craft trios that are fun to play, and musically stimulating.
SKU: XC.SB2002
ISBN 9781644020258. UPC: 812598032741. 9 x 12 inches.
Adaptable Trios contains 25 newly-composed or arranged string trios that can be flexibly used with any combination of string instruments, making them an invaluable resource in the modern orchestra classroom! Written at an accessible 1.5-3 grade level, Adaptable Trios follow the popular Adaptable Duets books by the same composers. Tyler Arcari and Matthew R. Putnam bring with them a wealth of educational experience as music educators to craft trios that are fun to play and musically stimulating. Edited by dedicated Violinist and educator Diana Traietta, Adaptable Trios are sure to become an instant favorite.Table of Contents:Alla HornpipeContredanseDanza de HerculesFanfareFlamingosGerman DanceGerman DanceMarchMinuetMusetteMy Country, 'Tis of TheePastoralePathetiqueRondoSailor's SongSaint Anthony ChoraleShenandoahSunayamaThe Ash GroveThe ImpValse NobleVolteWait just a MinuetWaltz.
SKU: AP.48646
ISBN 9781470643546. UPC: 038081557410. English.
Fantastic repertoire for fun that also builds reading, listening, and ensemble skills! Intended for first- and second-year players, this creative collection presents seven original rounds, each written from the scrambled notes of a traditional tune that students are challenged to identify. Whether in the classroom or on the concert program, the mystery delights one and all. Designed for maximum flexibility, these pieces may be performed with as few as four like instruments, or with as many instruments as desired, divided into four groups. Upper strings can be combined, or lower strings can be combined. For an ensemble that contains both upper and lower strings, ensemble accompaniment parts have been provided. The score contains a reproducible piano accompaniment as well. With so many options for instrumentation, Seven Mystery Melodies offers a unique, easy-to-use collection for teachers and beginning string students.
SKU: HL.14042812
8.5x11.75x0.166 inches.
Commissioned by Kronos Quartet for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. Premiere 12th March 2009 at the MusicNOW Festival and 18th July 2009 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.Bryce Dessner is a composer/guitarist/curator based in NewYork City. He has received widespread acclaim as a composer and guitarist for the improvising new music quartet, Clogs. Bryce has performed and/or recorded with some of the world's most creative musicians including songwritersSufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, and Antony Hegarty, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly and Michael Gordon, the contemporary ensembles, Kronos Quartet, the Bang on a Can All-Stars andvisual artist Matthew Ritchie. .
SKU: FG.55011-853-9
Lara Poe's (b. 1993) energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second movement diverges to the third movement's overtone derived chords.Duration: c. 25'This product includes a set of parts (violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello) and a score.Lara Poe is a Finnish-American composer who is currently based in London. Her works have been performed across a wide range of venues throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Her piece Kaamos, which she wrote for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, was recently nominated for a Ivors Composer Award in the Large Scale Composition category. Kaamos also was selected by YLE Radio Finland to represent Finland at the International Rostrum of Composers 2021 in Belgrade, Serbia. Poe was the 2019 Tanglewood Music Patricia Plum Wilde Fellow and represented Finland at Ung Nordisk Musik 2019 in Piteå. She was also a 2018-2019 participant in the London Symphony Orchestra's Panufnik Scheme, where she worked under the guidance of Colin Matthews and Christian Mason.