Ainsi La Nuit (Quatuor Cordes) by Henri Dutilleux String Quartet - Sheet Music

Name: Ainsi La Nuit (Quatuor Cordes)
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SKU: 21439459
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By Henri Dutilleux

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Instrument:

Cello Viola Violin

Genres:

20th Century

Composers:

Henri Dutilleux

Publishers:

Heugel & Cie

Format:

Score

Item types:

Physical

Artist:

Henri Dutilleux

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

String Quartet

SKU: BT.ALHE32609

Composed by Henri Dutilleux. Classical. Score Only. 36 pages. Heugel & Cie #ALHE32609. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE32609).

French.

Composed between 1973 and 1976, Ainsi La Nuit for a String Quartet is one of the most important works of its genre, byHenri Dutilleux (1916-2013), a French composer.

This scoreof Ainsi La Nuit is the conductor's score, with the four instruments altogether. The score for each individual instrument can be bought separately.

Commissioned by the KoussevitzkyFoundation for the Juilliard Quartet, Ainsi La Nuit is based on a series of studies, lasts 18 minutes and is divided into 7 sections:

1. Nocturne
2. Miroir d'espace
3.Litanies
4. Litanies II
5. Constellations
6. Nocturne II
7. Temps suspendu

Built on single hexachords, it also use the octatonic mode and focus on harmonies, contrasts and oppositions ofregister.

Henri Dutilleux was internationally acclaimed for his work winning prizes such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers,among many others. His work also includes a Piano sonata, two symphonies, the Violin concerto 'L'arbre des songes' (The tree of dreams) and the Cello concerto 'Tout un monde lointain' (A whole distant word).