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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Für Elise Meets Tango Waltz
Für Elise Meets Tango Waltz
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Evelyn Shen
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Für Elise Meets Tango Waltz
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H. Y. Shen
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.927196 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Evelyn Shen. Classical,Contempora...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.927196 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Evelyn Shen. Classical,Contemporary. Score and parts. 21 pages. H. Y. Shen #3493029. Published by H. Y. Shen (A0.927196). Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Arranged by Evelyn Shen. Classical, Classical Contemporary, Tango Waltz. Score, Set of parts. 8 pages.When Beethoven’s piano classic Für Elise meets Tango Waltz. With syncopated rhythms and reharmonized with extended chords, this arrangement for string quartet will sure be a crowd pleaser.2018 Chamber Music Contest Entry
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String Quartet No. 2 "Dance Suite"
String Quartet No. 2 "Dance Suite"
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Timothy Lee Miller
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String Quartet No. 2 "Dance Su
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013793 Composed by Timothy Lee Miller. Contemporary,Contest,Festival. Score and parts...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013793 Composed by Timothy Lee Miller. Contemporary,Contest,Festival. Score and parts. 73 pages. TLM Music Publishing #619411. Published by TLM Music Publishing (A0.1013793). A set of dance pieces for string quartet. The movements are: Dance, Waltz, Tango, Mazurka.
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La Foule
La Foule
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Angel Cabral and Enrique Dizeo
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Harpoline
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La Foule
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Harpoline
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1471997 Composed by Angel Cabral and Enrique Dizeo. Arranged by Har...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1471997 Composed by Angel Cabral and Enrique Dizeo. Arranged by Harpoline. 20th Century,Folk,Latin,Multicultural,World. 14 pages. Harpoline #1049693. Published by Harpoline (A0.1471997). This tune made famous by Edith Piaf was originally a South American waltz. I have arranged this tune for String Quartet and it will fit in great for reception or French or Tango repertoire. Unfortunately the interesting parts are only for violin one and two. Viola and cello are the support act. The parts are not very hard but need to be quite fast and rhythmical.
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Classics for String Quartet: Viola Part
Classics for String Quartet: Viola Part
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473890 Composed by Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Baroqu...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473890 Composed by Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Baroque,Classical,Traditional. 24 pages. Songburd Music #1051610. Published by Songburd Music (A0.1473890). Classics for String Quartet is a collection of arrangements from some of the most well known tunes and composers in the classical music repertoire. This collection is perfect for weddings and special events!Each part is sold individually: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, CelloAuld Lang Syne: Scottish Folk SongTango in D: AlbénizAve Maria: Gounod, BachHighlights from “Carmen”: BizetSlavonic Fantasy: Feldman, David, Sheremetyev, HermannLittle Vienna March: KreislerClassical Medley: Mozart, Rossini, Hayden, Sousa, StraussSong of the Indian Guest: Rimsky-KorsakovThe Swan: Saint-SaënsAve Maria: SchubertWaltz: SchubertRussian Dance: Tchaikovsky.
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Classics for String Quartet: Cello Part
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SheetMusicPlus
String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473893 Composed by Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Baroqu...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473893 Composed by Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Baroque,Classical,Traditional. 25 pages. Songburd Music #1051613. Published by Songburd Music (A0.1473893). Classics for String Quartet is a collection of arrangements from some of the most well known tunes and composers in the classical music repertoire. This collection is perfect for weddings and special events!Each part is sold individually: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, CelloAuld Lang Syne: Scottish Folk SongTango in D: AlbénizAve Maria: Gounod, BachHighlights from “Carmen”: BizetSlavonic Fantasy: Feldman, David, Sheremetyev, HermannLittle Vienna March: KreislerClassical Medley: Mozart, Rossini, Hayden, Sousa, StraussSong of the Indian Guest: Rimsky-KorsakovThe Swan: Saint-SaënsAve Maria: SchubertWaltz: SchubertRussian Dance: Tchaikovsky.
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Classics for String Quartet: Violin 1 Part
Classics for String Quartet: Violin 1 Part
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473886 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Bar...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1473886 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Yelena Savranskaya. Baroque,Classical,Traditional. 27 pages. Songburd Music #1051606. Published by Songburd Music (A0.1473886). Classics for String Quartet is a collection of arrangements from some of the most well known tunes and composers in the classical music repertoire. This collection is perfect for weddings and special events!Each part is sold individually: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, CelloAuld Lang Syne: Scottish Folk SongTango in D: AlbénizAve Maria: Gounod, BachHighlights from “Carmen”: BizetSlavonic Fantasy: Feldman, David, Sheremetyev, HermannLittle Vienna March: KreislerClassical Medley: Mozart, Rossini, Hayden, Sousa, StraussSong of the Indian Guest: Rimsky-KorsakovThe Swan: Saint-SaënsAve Maria: SchubertWaltz: SchubertRussian Dance: Tchaikovsky.
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å››å£ç´…弦樂四é‡å¥ LOVE SONG OF FOUR SEASONS for String Quartet
å››å£ç´…弦樂四é‡å¥ LOVE SONG OF FOUR SEASONS for String Quartet
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Yu-Hsien Teng 鄧雨è
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Diau-Hua Lim 林肇è
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1358369 Composed by Yu-Hsien Teng 鄧雨賢. Arranged by...
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1358369 Composed by Yu-Hsien Teng 鄧雨賢. Arranged by Diau-Hua Lim 林肇è¯. Chamber,Pop. 13 pages. Diau-Hua Lim ,æž—è‚‡è¯ ,故鄉åæ›²æ¨‚èœ ,Homeland Famous Music Scores #942826. Published by Diau-Hua Lim ,æž—è‚‡è¯ ,故鄉åæ›²æ¨‚èœ ,Homeland Famous Music Scores (A0.1358369). The song, LOVE SONG OF FOUR SEASONS, was composed by the famous composer, Yu-Hsien Teng (1906-1944), in 1937. It was arranged for string quartet by Diau-Hua Lim in 2002. The quartet starts with a cheerful introduction and then the rhythm is changed to tango and waltz to give greater variety. It is very popular.
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String Quartet No. 5 From The Frieze Of Life (parts)
String Quartet No. 5 From The Frieze Of Life (parts)
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Colin Bayliss
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String Quartet No. 5 From The
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Colin Bayliss
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SheetMusicPlus
String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938388 Composed by Colin Bayliss. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 29 pages...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938388 Composed by Colin Bayliss. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 29 pages. Colin Bayliss #6141. Published by Colin Bayliss (A0.938388). This work was written in 1999 for an international competition for quartets reflecting in music the visions in three of Edvard Munch's paintings. It is dedicated to the composer's wife, Rayna. 1. The Scream - Moderato - There are 51 versions of The Scream and the movement is in 51 sections grouped roughly into sonata form. The development is largely textural, and the movement hinges about a chord formed of open fifths a major third apart which will also re-appear in the other movements to give the quartet its sense of unity. The screaming is both audible and silent, and the footsteps on the bridge are portrayed both in a sense of passing by and also of running away. 2. Melancholy - Andante - Munch gave other titles to this painting, namely Jappe by the Shore and Jealousy . As jealousy and melancholy are retrospective emotions, tonal and modal music is employed, using the Norwegian folk song Millom bakkar og berg ut met havet set in a minor key for the first section. The A-B-A form then partially loses tonality for Jealousy, while returning to it for Melancholy itself. 3. The Dance of Life - Allegro - This movement is in rondo form, with hints of Norwegian country dances for the dancers in the painting. The two women are portrayed as one looking nostalgically to the light-heartedness of the old waltz and the other brooding on the darkness and latent sexuality of the new tango, the melodies for both of which are also corruptions of the country dances. The Munch chord alters the perspective on the scene as the movement progresses and eventually dissolves at the end as though the onlooker is passing on to another, equally unresolved future. The Score and Parts are available on this site as separate downloads The sound sample is the second movement - performed by the Lochrian Ensemble The complete 6 string quartets performed by the Lochrian Ensemble are available on itunes: see: http://www.dwsolo.com/colinbayliss/.
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String Quartet No. 5 From The Frieze Of Life (score and parts)
String Quartet No. 5 From The Frieze Of Life (score and parts)
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Colin Bayliss
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String Quartet No. 5 From The
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Colin Bayliss
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938387 Composed by Colin Bayliss. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 66 pages...
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String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.938387 Composed by Colin Bayliss. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 66 pages. Colin Bayliss #6139. Published by Colin Bayliss (A0.938387). This work was written in 1999 for an international competition for quartets reflecting in music the visions in three of Edvard Munch's paintings. It is dedicated to the composer's wife, Rayna. 1. The Scream - Moderato - There are 51 versions of The Scream and the movement is in 51 sections grouped roughly into sonata form. The development is largely textural, and the movement hinges about a chord formed of open fifths a major third apart which will also re-appear in the other movements to give the quartet its sense of unity. The screaming is both audible and silent, and the footsteps on the bridge are portrayed both in a sense of passing by and also of running away. 2. Melancholy - Andante - Munch gave other titles to this painting, namely Jappe by the Shore and Jealousy . As jealousy and melancholy are retrospective emotions, tonal and modal music is employed, using the Norwegian folk song Millom bakkar og berg ut met havet set in a minor key for the first section. The A-B-A form then partially loses tonality for Jealousy, while returning to it for Melancholy itself. 3. The Dance of Life - Allegro - This movement is in rondo form, with hints of Norwegian country dances for the dancers in the painting. The two women are portrayed as one looking nostalgically to the light-heartedness of the old waltz and the other brooding on the darkness and latent sexuality of the new tango, the melodies for both of which are also corruptions of the country dances. The Munch chord alters the perspective on the scene as the movement progresses and eventually dissolves at the end as though the onlooker is passing on to another, equally unresolved future. The Score and Parts are available on this site as separate downloads The sound sample is the second movement - performed by the Lochrian Ensemble The complete 6 string quartets performed by the Lochrian Ensemble are available on itunes: see: http://www.dwsolo.com/colinbayliss/.
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