If you have tuned into the hit period drama on Netflix, Bridgerton, chances are you\'ve also taken notice of the distinctive string quartet playing covers of today\'s top contemporary hits in decidedly classical arrangements. HalLeonard is pleased to now present string quartet score and parts for this buzz-worthy music performed by Vitamin String Quartet.

If you have tuned into the hit period drama on Netflix, Bridgerton, chances are you\'ve also taken notice of the distinctive string quartet playing covers of today\'s top contemporary hits in decidedly classical arrangements. HalLeonard is pleased to now present string quartet score and parts for this buzz-worthy music performed by Vitamin String Quartet.

If you have tuned into the hit period drama on Netflix, Bridgerton, chances are you\'ve also taken notice of the distinctive string quartet playing covers of today\'s top contemporary hits in decidedly classical arrangements. HalLeonard is pleased to now present string quartet score and parts for this buzz-worthy music performed by Vitamin String Quartet.

Full Score and String Quartet Parts-Scenes from Gjeilo's majestic native Norway inspired this contemporary poem. Words and music are fused in a poignant yet lyrical work with a pulse of its own. An excellent festival choice for mature women's choirs. String Quartet Parts. Duration: ca. 3:30.Vocal Score: HL08501772

Contemporary String Quartet Repertoire For New and Developing Ensembles-An introduction to quartet ensemble playing for string players of grade 1-3 standard. Familiar keys common rhythms and transparent musical forms ensure the short pieces and miniatures featured within Discover are accessible to all. Emphasis is firmly focussed on playing together as a unit.

Born in South Africa but now an Irish citizen Kevin Volans? musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of experiences including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne field trips to South Africa tostudy traditional music his own involvement with the New Simplicity movement his collection of contemporary art and African textiles friendships with composers like Morton Feldman and Gerald Barry as well as a love of virtuosopiano music which he performs broadcasts and records. While having an easily recognised unique voice Volans? music resists compartmentalisation. He is as comfortable working in conventional genres as embarking oninnovative collaborations with artists of other disciplines. String Quartet No.1 (White Man Sleeps) was written for the Kronos Quartet and was first performed by them in July 1986 London.The title?White Man Sleeps? comes from a moment in nyanga Panpipe music where the performers leave off playing their loud pipes for a few cycles and dance only to the sound of their ankle rattles to let the whitelandowner sleep for a minute or two.'In composing this piece I drew from the following sources: the first movement owes something to the style of Basotho concertina music; the second and fourth movements are drawnfrom traditional Nyungwe music played by Makina Chirenje and his Nyanga panpipe group at Nsava Tete Mozambique recorded and transcribed by Andrew Tracey (to be found in an article entitled ?The nyanga Panpipe dance? in AfricanMusic Vol.5 No.1 (1971); the third movement derives from the San bow music (recorded by Tony Traill of the University of Witwatersrand) and from Basotho lesiba music transcribed by myself; in the fifth movement I added my owninvented folklore. My approach to the original music was anything but purist it is played in Western tuning filtered slowed down by a few ?time-octaves? cast into non-African metres (like the 13-beat pattern of the first