String Quartet No. 1 - "Imaginarium" - String Quartet - Digital Sheet Music

Details

Instruments: Cello; Viola; Violin
Ensembles: String Quartet
Genres: 21st Century; Contemporary
Series: ArrangeMe
ArrangeMe: Rainous Publishing
Formats: Set of Parts; Score and Parts
Item Types: Digital
Levels: Advanced
Usages: School and Community

Description

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.930924

Composed by Jonathan Rainous. Contemporary. Score and parts. 71 pages. Rainous Publishing #6759859. Published by Rainous Publishing (A0.930924).

A single movement, narrative string quartet tracing an arc from a banal, clocklike beginning through wild flights of fancy as each instrument imitates another in their own solo sections. Imagination is extinguished as the clock's hands tick slower.... slower.... ending in a breath. The opening 4-note motive furnishes the vast majority of musical material. Many different contemporary musical ideas are evoked, including atonality, bluegrass, minimalism, 5/8 dance music, 'sound effect' or noise music (after Lachenmann) and others.

Extended techniques include under-pressure, nail pizzicato, buzz pizzicato, playing on the bridge, tremolo accelerando and ritardando, proportional notation, finger-roll pizz on strings combined with glissandi, quarter tones, plectrum pizzicato, hammer-ons and pull-offs (like a guitar), half-muted pizzicato, bowing behind bridge, aleatory (like Lutosławski) both individual and combined with phasing (after Reich). Not all parts utilize all techniques.

Recording of excerpts from a workshop in Valencia, Spain.

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