Wir Weben Wir Weben
String Orchestra Version
by Martin Bresnick
Double Bass - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Violin I, Violin II, Violin III, Viola, Cello, String Bass

SKU: CF.CY3188F

String Orchestra Version. Composed by Martin Bresnick. Full score. With Standard notation. 32 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #CY3188F. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CY3188F).

ISBN 9780825885334. UPC: 798408085339. 9 x 12 inches.

The string sextet setting from the original work for string orchestra was premiered by Musical Elements (Daniel Asia, director) in 1980 and recorded by them on New World Records NWCR682 Martin Bresnick: Music for Strings. From the liner notes: "The title Wir Weben, Wir Weben (We're Weaving, We're Weaving) is taken from the refrain of Heinrich Heine's poem 'The Silesian Weavers.' The poem was written in sympathy with a strike by German textile workers in 1844. The musicians' repeated melodic and contrapuntal patterns imagines the work of the weavers - an audible realization of the terrible beauty of repetitive labor.".