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CordulaR
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(2/7/01 1:21:59 pm)
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stringquartet repertoire
I know I'm illegal here, but please
bear with me for a moment.
I'm coaching stringquartets and
am running out of playable repertoire. My question for all you 4tet
players out there: what pieces do you know that are good for
beginning or intermediate CBN-string4tets? What have you played, and
more important: what pieces made you happy? (technically and/or
musically)
all your suggestions are very
welcome,
TIA
Cordula
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Betsy
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(2/7/01 2:21:54 pm)
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Re:
stringquartet repertoire
Cordula, I wish I had an answer, I
just wanted you to know that IMHO you would never be illegal here! 
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DWThomas
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(2/7/01 7:57:35 pm)
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Re:
stringquartet repertoire
I second Betsy as to your being
welcome here!
I saw your note earlier but had to wait until I
got home to look this up, although it may be not quite advanced
enough.
In my only coached foray into quartets, we worked
from a book:
"First Quartet Album for Strings" Compiled,
arranged, and edited by Harvey S. Whistler and Herman A. Hummel.
Arrangements were for the standard two violins, viola & cello.
(Rubank/Hal Leonard HL04472760) The stuff is basically first
position, though I'm acutely aware that the cellist had to stretch
for a few accidentals here and there. The pieces were from Haydn,
Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Pleyel, Mendelssohn (all those fondly
remembered old guys!). Toward the mid-section on, things progressed
to some rhythmic challenges. It's in score form (and cheap -- like
$4.95 USD) but they don't mention any "Second Book
of...."
Another possible route: Our coach's husband was
fighting cancer, and she was not having a good year. We
surreptitiously worked up a surprise. We did Jolly Old St. Nicholas,
played from a not-real-heavy piano score. That's an easy way to get
in trouble though, as an innocent little OOM-pa-pa-pa base line
which would be duck soup on a keyboard wound up in brisk little
crossings from the C to the D string here and there for your's
truly. The other piece we did, which was short but came off quite
nicely, was a rendition of Est Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen from a four
part vocal score. It actually fell under the hands pretty well.
Those plus a half dozen roses really left our coach
speechless.
There are probably some arrangements of popular
tunes that could be given similar treatment to have a little variety
too.
My $0.02.
Dave
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