Helicopter Quartet – Stockhausen

I was first introduced to this video a few years ago and my first thoughts, (before my general revulsion towards the aesthetics of the work manifested) were that this work is a seriously poor allocation of resources.  If you think about the money sunk into the work to contract and fly the four helicopters for the [...]

Schubert Quartet in A Minor, “Rosamunde”

This is the first complete quartet I performed in  public setting, so it holds a special place of malice in my heart.  The struggle that the viola and cello have in getting those 16th notes in the opening bar to match in articulation and duration is frustrating.  As always, these are re-hosted from IMSLP.

Schubert Quartet in [...]

Debussy & Ravel String Quartets

I guess you could call this impressionistic Wednesday.  Click beneath the fold for two standard pieces!

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Mendelssohn String Quartets

Here are Mendelssohn’s Six String Quartets…Minus the parts to the 5th.  As always this batch is re-hosted from IMSLP.  As soon as I can I’ll go hunting for the rest of the parts.  Other than the missing parts to the 5th quartet, all of the PDF’s are of a lovely quality.  Happy playing.

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Bartok String Quartets No’s 1 & 2

Here are the Scores and Parts to Bartok’s First and Second String Quartets.  Unfortunately, these are the only two quartets that have entered the public domain in the United States so far.  As with my last upload, these have been re-hosted from IMSLP, so if  you are looking for more parts go ahead and look over in their fairly large library while I work on getting things rehosted/uploaded here.

Update Wednesday, March 11th 11:48: Cleaned up the score to Quartet No. 1 as best I could without getting too nit-picky.  Some pages are better than others, but as a whole it is way better than what we had before.  Click past the break to pull it down if you are so inclined.

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Mozart String Quartets No. 1-23

Here is my first upload and I’d like to make it clear that this work is not my own, the folks over at IMSLP have a huge database of all sorts of public domain music.  I have simply taken their uploads and rehosted them here, in what I hope will be a much more organized fashion.  For now, as I upload, my focus will be on string quartet music (as giggers are constantly looking for works that they can just sight read at their uncle’s cousin’s wedding).

Even though IMSLP has a wonderful catalog, it has some fairly serious holes where many of the scans are just scores rather than parts that musicians can use.  That being said, here are the scores and parts to Mozart string quartets 1-23.  IMSLP has a few of the quartets after No. 23 missing and then a has few of the last ones, once I fill in those gaps I’ll rip the last few Mozart quartets from IMSLP, so head on over there if you are looking for the last ones.

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