String quartet (String
Quartet) - difficult
SKU: HL.49043938
'In Flight Music'.
Composed by Edward Cowie.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed
1982-1983. 122 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED13390. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49043938).
ISBN
9790220133923.
9.25x12.0x0.494
inches.
The 3rd
String Quartet was
originally composed in
1982-3 to a commission
from The Adelaide
Festival, and premiered
by The Petra Quartet in
1983. Subsequent to this
quartet, I have composed
two more; No. 4 in 1986
and No. 5 in 2002.The
offer to re-publish this
work, led me to begin by
a process of amendment,
but ended in the
composition of a
virtually new quartet!
Only parts of the
original quartet have
been retained. I also
chose to 'frame' (in my
case this means an
inspirational focus and
filter), the quartet in a
new way too.In Flight
Music keeps the
4-movement format of the
original quartet, but is
now directly linked to a
life-long interest in
flight. The first two
movements are concerned
with aspects of humans in
flight, whilst the last
two deal with insects and
birds respectively.Since
all my music is these
days preceded by
visualisations in the
form of drawings,
wherever possible, this
quartet might be
performed with the four
drawings, one for each
movement, back-projected
behind the
players.Digital copies of
these drawings may be
obtained from Schott
Music.Edward
Cowie.Maurens. France.
August, 2010.
