4 Strings - Pioneer

PIONEER - Le répertoire contemporain pour des quatuors à cordes de niveau avancé.Le troisième volume embrasse le répertoire contemporain de concert pour des quatuors de haute capacité des degrés supérieurs(5-6). Les compositions ouvrent de nouvelles voies stylistiques, les parties séparées se caractérisent par leur plus grandeindépendance les unes des autres, et les pièces font appel à un plus grand nombre de techniques de jeux. / Quatuor A Cordes

PIONEER - Le répertoire contemporain pour des quatuors à cordes de niveau avancé.Le troisième volume embrasse le répertoire contemporain de concert pour des quatuors de haute capacité des degrés supérieurs(5-6). Les compositions ouvrent de nouvelles voies stylistiques, les parties séparées se caractérisent par leur plus grandeindépendance les unes des autres, et les pièces font appel à un plus grand nombre de techniques de jeux. / Quatuor A Cordes

Full Score-Yevhen Stankovych is pioneer in the rebirth of the neo-romantic style in the second half of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 1980s he developed his own musical system which he calls ?polyphony of layers?. Dictum for piano and strings isamong the works written in this manner composed shortly following the Chernobyl disaster. It is regarded as the only composition which adequately expresses the tragedy.

The ragtime and early jazz music pioneers during the first decades of the last century didn???t know that the sounds they created would echo in the music that people loved for years to come. They started an American music traditionthat is alive to this day. I was born and raised in Sweden and I have always enjoyed the music from that era but being a Guitarist I never thought that playing back-up in a jazz band was for me. I???d rather do something with thesesongs so that they would fit my approach playing fingerstyle Guitar.Many of the early jazz songs and of course classical ragtime often is played as Piano music with a steady left hand playing bass notes and chords togetherwith the right hand playing a syncopated melody on top. This style of playing is very similar to the alternating bass style on the Guitar. So these tunes easily lend themselves to a fingerstyle arrangement.With classicalragtime I approach arranging by transcribing the original Piano sheet-music. The important thing is to find keys that suit the Guitar and then decide what notes not to play since it is not technically possible to play all thenotes in a Piano score on the Guitar. I like to play in keys that will give me the opportunity to use open strings in the bass while the melody moves up and down the neck. This is especially important since my aim is to make myarrangements not too difficult to play so that the player can concentrate on the music instead of being too concerned with the technical aspects of his/her playing. The most important challenge though is to make the tune soundlike Guitar music not Piano music played on the Guitar.