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Score and parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen this piece at last appeared itself as a whole on the paper, I heard the color of sudden change and shift, which indebted to my indwelling theatrical aesthetics when carving the structural aspect of the piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVarious parts follow each other as liquid fractures leading into the interior of a thought; the interior of forgetting, interlocking and traces of remembrance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e…our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ejust like watery ink on paper.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Arthur Gordon)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisemusicclassical.com\/work\/60589\/Vicissitudes-No-1-alto-sax-version--Du-Yun\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVicissitudes No. 1 (alto sax version)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisemusicclassical.com\/work\/60980\/Vicissitudes-No-1-clarinet-version--Du-Yun\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVicissitudes No. 1 (clarinet version)\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"Du Yun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724772745382,"sku":"GSP60589SET","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/du_yun_vicissitudes_no._1_2020_ed.__fs__cover.jpg?v=1640131769"},{"product_id":"vicissitudes-no-1-clarinet-version","title":"Vicissitudes No. 1 (clarinet version)","description":"For clarinet, percussion, guitar, piano, cello, and bass. Score and parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen this piece at last appeared itself as a whole on the paper, I heard the color of sudden change and shift, which indebted to my indwelling theatrical aesthetics when carving the structural aspect of the piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVarious parts follow each other as liquid fractures leading into the interior of a thought; the interior of forgetting, interlocking and traces of remembrance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e…our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ejust like watery ink on paper.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Arthur Gordon)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisemusicclassical.com\/work\/60589\/Vicissitudes-No-1-alto-sax-version--Du-Yun\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVicissitudes No. 1 (alto sax version)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisemusicclassical.com\/work\/60980\/Vicissitudes-No-1-clarinet-version--Du-Yun\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVicissitudes No. 1 (clarinet version)\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"Du Yun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724796698790,"sku":"GSP60980SET","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/du_yun_vicissitudes_no._1_fs_clarinet_cover.jpg?v=1640131717"},{"product_id":"lullaby-for-flute-and-guitar","title":"Lullaby (for flute and guitar)","description":"For flute and guitar, from 'Before Sleep and Dreams'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/29511\" target=\"blank\"\u003eBefore Sleep and Dreams\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/61059\" target=\"blank\"\u003eLullaby (for flute and guitar)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/61060\" target=\"blank\"\u003eLullaby (for violin and guitar)\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"Aaron Jay Kernis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724868460710,"sku":"GSP61059SET","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/ajk_lullaby_gtr_and_flute_-_full_score_cover.jpg?v=1640131275"},{"product_id":"lullaby-for-violin-and-guitar","title":"Lullaby (for violin and guitar)","description":"For violin and guitar, from 'Before Sleep and Dreams'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelated works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/29511\" target=\"blank\"\u003eBefore Sleep and Dreams\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/61059\" target=\"blank\"\u003eLullaby (for flute and guitar)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wisemusicclassical.com\/\/composer\/work\/61060\" target=\"blank\"\u003eLullaby (for violin and guitar)\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"Aaron Jay Kernis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724876751014,"sku":"GSP61060SET","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/ajk_lullaby_gtr_and_violin_-_full_score_cover.jpg?v=1640131149"},{"product_id":"oboe-and-tam-tam-duet-from-angels-bone","title":"Oboe and Tam-tam Duet (from Angel's Bone)","description":"For oboe and percussion. Set of two playing scores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eComposer note\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis duet is from the scene \"Ignition\" in the opera \u003ci\u003eAngel's Bone\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scene description is to give context, but the performers are encouraged to bring in their own world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibretto: \u003cbr\u003eAfter a female customer has finished (choking the BOY ANGEL), MRS. X.E. enters the room of the BOY ANGEL, holding him. At first this seems like a comforting gesture, but then she begins to force herself on him, encouraging HIS hands to explore HER breasts. SHE kisses him gently at first, then becomes aggressive. Meanwhile a man forces the GIRL ANGEL to smoke methamphetamines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMRS. X.E. takes an axe to the \"FOR SALE\" sign. 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Score sold by your \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sheetmusicplus.com\/title\/string-quartet-no-3-1971-sheet-music\/3140532\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emusic dealer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.halleonard.com\/product\/50238300\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHalLeonard.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.musicroom.com\/product\/hl50238300\/elliott-carter-string-quartet-no-3-1971-string-ensemble.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMusicRoom.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. My String Quartet No. 3, commissioned by The Julliard School for the Julliard String Quartet, divides the instruments into pairs: a Duo for violin and cello that plays in rubato style and one for violin and viola in more regular rhythm. The violin-cello Duo presents four different musical characters: an angry, intense Furioso, a fanciful Leggerissimo, a Pizzicato giocoso and a lyrical Andante éxpressivo, in short sections one after the other in various orders, sometimes with pauses between. The violin-viola Duo, meanwhile, presents the six contrasting character listed in the program. During the Quartet each character of each Duo is presented alone and also in combination with each character of the other duo to give a sense of ever-varying perspectives of feelings, expression, rivalry and cooperation. — Elliott Carter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elliott Carter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41736593047718,"sku":"GSP26721PAR","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/gsp26721par_tile.jpg?v=1641535296"},{"product_id":"kanto-kechua-no-2","title":"Kanto Kechua No. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor string quartet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn my early thirties, after receiving a devastating diagnosis of a life-threatening autoimmune disease, I paradoxically entered the most uniquely creative period of my life. Looking back, I believe I might have been grasping at what was most life-affirming to me, terrified of impending surgeries, radiation, drugs, and pain. Over several months, I composed hours of chamber music, wrote bilingual poetry and a fantasy novel of time-travel back to my ancestral homeland of pre-Conquest Perú, knitted and sewed, mastered the tarot and intricate origami, dove into the alchemy of homemade soaps and face creams, interned in bee-keeping, cultivated sourdoughs and learned to make cheese.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis was quite the prelude, bright and desperate both, to several years of treatment when most of my creative endeavors were muted. Now, a number of years later, scarred but healthy and working actively as a composer, I still carry around melodies born from that time; and in 2017, fashioned a quartet from this oddly luminescent wellspring into the first movement of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalkabout: Concerto for Orchestra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, somewhat simplified for its symphonic weight. When I was approached by the brilliant string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a work on the theme of healing, I found my chance to hear these ideas for the nimbler string quartet, my original conception. The result is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKanto Kechua No. 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\"Quechua Song\" with Quechua being the dominant language of post-Inca Perú) now with all of its ornamental intricacies and string-crossing whirls under an achingly high if brief violin line. Throughout, motifs from native Andean folk music proliferate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’m exceedingly grateful to be able to, at long last, bring this music to life as I step now in wellness and creative abundance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Gabriela Lena Frank\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvuRwnPPBb8?si=OyuqefkrMHb1fLFn\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriela Lena Frank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41736660353190,"sku":"GSP58422SET","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/products\/gsp58422set_tile.jpg?v=1748528584"},{"product_id":"string-quartet-no-15","title":"String Quartet No. 3","description":"For string quartet. 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Before beginning to write, I went back to a novel of the early 20th century, beloved of my mother and seemingly influential to me, \u003ci\u003eJean-Christophe\u003c\/i\u003e, by French author Romain Rolland.\"","brand":"Aaron Jay Kernis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41736692760742,"sku":"GSP55379SET","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/2355\/8566\/files\/GSP55379SET_tile.jpg?v=1748550837"},{"product_id":"five-folksongs-in-counterpoint","title":"Five Folksongs in Counterpoint","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 2vn, va, vc. Set of score and parts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComposer Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo. 1 is based upon the Negro spiritual “Calvary.” (Southern USA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo. 2 is based upon “Clementine,” a ballad which became a favorite during the Reconciliation period. 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