String Quartet No. 8 in F Major, K168 - Cello

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To play the media you will need to update your Flash plugin. Arranged by Santino Cara. Published by Santino Cara S0. Piano version of the string quartet no. Menuetto and Trio 4. This product was created by a member of SMP Press, our global community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. Our independent musicians have created unique compositions and arrangements for the Sheet Music Plus community, many of which are not available anywhere else.

Click here to see more titles from these independent creators and to learn more about SMP Press. It is a work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings of poems by four authors. Most of the poems deal with the theme of death, particularly that of unjust or early death. They were set in Russian, although two other versions of the work exist with the texts all back-translated from Russian either into their original languages or into German.

The symphony is dedicated to Benjamin Britten who gave the UK premiere the following year. Instrumentation Besides the soloists, the symphony is scored for a chamber orchestra consisting only of strings and percussion. The strings consist of ten violins, four violas, three cellos, and two double basses, and the percussion section three players includes wood block, castanets, whip, soprano, alto and tenor tom-toms, xylophone, Tubular bells, vibraphone, and celesta. Form The work has four movements,[1] the middle two being played without interruption: The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No.

Three movements of the suite were reconstructed and orchestrated by Gerard McBurney, and were premiered at a London Promenade Concert in The Suite, in its reconstructed form, consists of the following movements: Scherzo Lullaby Serenade Until recently, another eight-movement Suite by Shostakovich had been misidentified and recorded as the second Jazz Suite.

This work is now correctly known as the Suite for Variety Orchestra post , from which the "Waltz No. The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky. This work has been variously called a song cycle and a choral symphony since the composer included settings of poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko concerning the Babi Yar Jewish massacre and other topics.

The five poems Shostakovich set to music one poem per movement are earthily vernacular and cover every aspect of Soviet life. Adagio 15—18 minutes In this movement, Shostakovich and Yevtushenko transform the mass murder by Nazis of Jews at Babi Yar, near Kiev, into a denunciation of anti-Semitism in all its forms. Although the Soviet government did not erect a monument at Babi Yar The concerto was an experimentation with a neo-baroque combination of instruments.

The performance was repeated on 17 October. Classification Despite the title, the work might more accurately be classified as a double concerto rather than a piano concerto in which the trumpet and piano command equal prominence. The trumpet parts frequently take the form of sardonic interjections, leavening the humor and wit of the piano passage work.

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The trumpet does assume relatively equal importance during the conclusion of the last movement, immediately after the cadenza for piano solo. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and its parallel minor is C minor. The C major scale is: On the piano, the C major scale can be played by playing the white keys starting on C. Compositions Twenty of Joseph Haydn's symphonies are in C major, making it his second most-used key, second only to D major.

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Of the symphonies mistakenly attributed to Haydn that H. Robbins Landon lists in his catalog, 33 are in C major, more than any other key. Before the invention of the valves, Haydn did not write trumpet and timpani parts in his symphonies, except those in C major. Landon writes that it wasn't "until that Haydn uses trumpets and timpani in a key other than C major In music, a tone row or note row German: Reihe or Tonreihe , also series or set,[1] is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.

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Tone rows were widely used in 20th-century contemporary music, e. Dmitri Shostakovich's use of twelve-tone rows, "without dodecaphonic transformations",[3][4] though one has been identified in the A minor prelude from book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.

Bach,[5] and by the late eighteenth century was a well-established technique, found in works such as Mozart's C major String Quartet, K. The Quartet has recorded over works and has toured internationally for well over half a century, making it one of the longest enduring major string quartets. Leonard Sorkin, from to , and Ralph Evans, from to the present. Its members in are violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico who have been playing together in the Quartet since , violist Gil Sharon, and cellist Niklas Schmidt.

Military service in World War II intervened, however, and it was not until , now with the new second violinist Joseph Stepansky, Its key signature has three flats: B, E, and A. The E-flat major scale is: Characteristics The key of E-flat major is often associated with bold, heroic music, in part because of Beethoven's usage. Also Beethoven's hypothetical 10th symphony is in the key of E-flat major.

But even before Beethoven, Francesco Galeazzi identified E-flat major as "a heroic key, extremely majestic, grave and serious: Another famous heroic piece in the key of E-flat major is Richard Strauss Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory.

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It is an uncharacteristically cheerful piece, much more so than most of Shostakovich's works. Movements The concerto lasts around 20 minutes and has three movements, with the second movement played attacca, thereby moving directly into the third although the second movement does come to an acceptable resolution in C minor, such that the third movement is not entirely necessary to bring the music to a conclusion: Allegro The jolly main theme of the first movement is played first by the bassoon, then soon accompanied by the clarinets and oboes.

The piano enters unobtrusively with an answering theme, played as single notes in both hand Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. Initially dedicated to the life and deeds of Vladimir Lenin, Shostakovich decided instead to dedicate the symphony to the city of Leningrad on its completion in December The work remains one of Shostakovich's best-known compositions. The piece soon became very popular in both the Soviet Union and the West as a symbol of resistance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism.

It is still regarded as the major musical testament of the estimated 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War II. The symphony is played frequently at the Leningrad Cemetery, where half a million victims of the day Siege of Leningrad are buried. The scale and s Rabinowitz, Peter J May Retrieved 5 December Mia Chung; Arnold Steinhardt.

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String Quartet No. 8 in F Major, K. 168

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March 26, , 7: Since , this quartet has performed a dynamic mix of original music and classical repertoire that have earned them a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world. March 28, 8: April 16, , 7: The work explores the experience of Vietnamese immigrant family torn between the notion of the American dream and preserving their cultural heritage. May 2, Alexander String Quartet.

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