Composées en 1963, les Cinq Séquences pour quatuor à cordes de Maurice Ohana affirment l'orientation que le langage de ce compositeur poursuivait depuis quelques années à la recherche d'un 'tempérament perdu'.Ce sont en effet les cordes, autant que la voix humaine et la percussion, qui offrent, parmi les moyens non électroniques d'expression, les plus grandes possibilités d'explorer l'univers sonore compris entre les notes de la gamme tempérée. Ici, l'échelle en tiers de ton crée le climat mélodique et harmonique de l'ouvrage.Dès le premier mouvement, Polyphonie, le contour mélodique échappe à l'échelle tempérée, la rythmique enchevêtre en cordes pincées un contrepoint libre, l'évocation de la percussion apparaît. Le second mouvement, Monodie, donne à chaque instrument, ponctué par les trois autres, son tour d'improvisation acrobatique, humoristique ou tendre. La péroraison emprunte aux instruments d'Extrême-Orient la couleur de corde pincée métallique.Le troisième mouvement, Tympanum, est un épisode percutant où le rythme seul règne, amenant les lentes volutes du Déchant, quatrième mouvement, tout en ombres et en éclats, qui rappelle les caprices goyesques, chers à son auteur. L'hymne, qui achève l'ouvrage, carillonne et éclate en lumière dans une écriture à la fois dense et scintillante. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par CLARKE GENE. Hymns Made Easy for Viola is a collection of favorite traditional hymns with guitar accompaniment, suitable for church, teaching or recreational settings. The material includes viola parts and bowing indications in first position, with guitar chord names written above the staff. All the arrangements in this book are compatible with Hymns Made Easy for Violin and Hymns Made Easy for Cello. Hymns Made Easy for Viola is a collection of favorite traditional hymns with guitar accompaniment, suitable for church, teaching or recreational settings. The material includes viola parts and bowing indications in first position, with guitar chord names written above the staff. All the arrangements in this book are compatible with Hymns Made Easy for Violin and Hymns Made Easy for Cello. / Niveau : Facile / Musique religieuse / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Recueil / Alto

Par . 23 relaxing hymns arranged for instrumentalists with professionally-recorded backing tracks for play-along fun. Includes: Abide with Me · Amazing Grace · Blessed Assurance · Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing · For the Beauty of the Earth · Great Is Thy Faithfulness · Holy, Holy, Holy · It Is Well with My Soul · Just As I Am · The King of Love My Shepherd Is · Nearer, My God, to Thee · What a Friend We Have in Jesus · and more. / Date parution : 2022-09-13/ Recueil / Alto

Instrumental Play-Along. 23 relaxing hymns arranged for instrumentalists with professionally-recording backing tracks for play-along fun. Includes: Abide with Me · Amazing Grace · Blessed Assurance · Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing · For the Beauty of the Earth · Great Is Thy Faithfulness · Holy, Holy, Holy · It Is Well with My Soul · Just As I Am · The King of Love My Shepherd Is · Nearer, My God, to Thee · What a Friend We Have in Jesus · and more.

Using the words of Robert Lowry's beloved hymn Nothing But the Blood Daniel Mattix has created new music and arranged it in a choral setting. The piano accompaniment works well but the string quartet version is truly the best. The minor tonality and the phrasing of the melodic lines both carry the strong emotions of the piece. At the end we even hear a touch of the original hymn smuggled into the closing phrase. Easy to Medium for communion or Lent.

Par MILHAUD DARIUS. French composer and teacher, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a prolific composer of the 20th century as a member of 'Les Six'. His compositions remain highly regarded, Jacob's Dreams being no exception. Milhaud 's compositions are influenced by jazz and polytonality, as exemplified in Jacob's Dreams. Composed in 1949, Jacob's Dreams is a dance suite, written for Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass. It is an alternative, exciting suite, based on the dreams of Jacob in the Bible and made up of five movements; 1) Jacob's Pillow, 2) The first dream (the angel's ladder), 3) Prophecy, 4) Second dream(fight with the dark angel and benediction), and 5) Israel (Hymn). Milhaud makes use of variation in articulation, complex rhythms, chromaticism, accidentals, harmonics, altering tempos, variation in dynamics and a wide tessitura, amongst other aspects. Milhaud 's Jacob's Dream is essential to all advanced ensembles seeking modern and exciting repertoire./ Répertoire / Hautbois, Violon, Alto, Violoncelle et Contrebasse

Three arrangements including Ave Verum Corpus and the Lacrimosa from the Requiem.During the year 1771 when Mozart was 15 years old he and his father Leopold were touring Italy which was at that time the most formidable citadel of the music world. In the following four years the young Mozart was received at the homes and villas of Italy's aristocracy. He met the most famous musicians of the time including Niccolo Piccinni operatic rival to Gluck and Padre Martini from whom he was to benefit from studies in counterpoint. He also met many noted male soprano singers and for one the celebrated Venanzio Rauzzini he wrote in 1773 the motet Exsultate Jubilate from whichcomes the well known Alleluia.At the end of his life only 19 years later in Vienna 1791 Mozart was very ill and working on a number of massive works such as the operas The Magic Flute and Titus also the Requiem. Titus was completed in 18 nerve-shattering days as it had to be performed in Prague in September 1791. At its premiere it was a complete flop. This affected the now overworked almost penniless composer's spirit and he returned to Vienna suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. Rest was denied him. The Magic Flute had to be finished for its premier on September 30th 1791. The task of the Requiem still faced him. In this weakened state Mozart thought that he was in fact writing his own requiem reading evil omens into the commissioning of the work. He thought someone had calculated the precise time of his death and was thus troubled with sombre thoughts. He completed the first two of the twelve parts. The next six parts were in an unfinished state and his manuscript ceased at the Lacrimosa. Süssmayer who was working closely with Mozart at the time was given the task of finishing the Requiem.Ave Verum Corpus is also one of his final works. It is a setting of an anonymous hymn written as a motet for Anton Stoll the choirmaster at Baden in June 1791.Mozart was a composer of great genius who

An eight minute ensemble composition for Violin Viola and Cello premiered in january 2001 by Marcia Crayford at the St.Columbus Church in London. The piece is based on a Greek byzantine hymn and features a short seriesof transformations. The opening phrase has a tangential flow of reflective thought and the end is calm and wrapt reflecting the titles inwardness.

Impressions On Beethoven's Harp Quartet. Par AMANTI LUCIO. When Cuarteto Casals approached me with the idea of illuminating Beethoven´s quartets anew, you can imagine the many thoughts and feelings that where going through my mind: what a joy, what a great honor… What an intriguing head-scratcher! How can you possibly shine a new light on something that is already perfect? Weeks, months went by in search of a common ground between the Master and myself until I finally found it in the realization that a word lays “hidden” in the St. John’s hymn that gave musical notes their original name: ‘Re, Sol, Ut, Io’ (D, G, C, B in English music notation) Perfect! “Resolutio” in Latin means both the resolution of a problem and the re-solution: a re-blend of many elements that will eventually coagulate to make something new. There was finally the melodic and a rhythmical canvas for my piece. On this canvas I wrote the story of a funny little contest, played on a sunny Mediterranean square, between street musicians and Cuarteto Casals just minutes before they are about to go on stage to perform Beethoven´s “Harp Quartet”. After all the characters, each in his own way, had the chance to tell their story, a gentle rain starts to fall, dissolving (Re-solving) again the music sheet to eventually leave us with just a white piece of paper for somebody else to continue the Work. (Lucio Franco Amanti) / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

String Quartet No. 4. Par BARRY GERALD. The title of Barry’s fourth string quartet refers to a Kafka story of the same name about a trapeze artist who is happy only when aloft. This is striking music, full of fragility, beauty, outbursts and to finish, an unexpected hymn sung by the quartet./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Tunes from The American Civil War worked into a medley including Marching Through Georgia The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie. Marching songs were sung to boost morale on both sides. On occasions when the armies of the North and South were camped within earshot they would sing songs in an attempt to demoralise the opposition before battle the following morning.Grade: 5

Als Auftragswerk für das Kronos Quartet entstanden, schildert diese Komposition facettenreich den Glanz des alten Ägyptens: Lyrisch-fließende Motive verbinden orientalische Melismen und majestätische Hymnen zu einer exotischen Klangmischung. / Quatuor A Cordes