Name: Quartet of Dances (2004) by Colin Eatock String Quartet Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Colin Eatock Music
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Quartet of Dances (2004)
by Colin Eatock String Quartet - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Quartet of Dances (2004)

Artist Colin Eatock

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Colin Eatock

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 118

Arrangement String Quartet

Publisher Colin Eatock Music

Level 5

Product ID 1723568

Genre Classical Chamber

Performance Group String Quartet

Product Description

Four movements; 2 violins, viola, cello; ca. 11 min.

The composer writes: I thought of the title Quartet of Dances before I began to write this four-movement work for string quartet. Sometimes I find myself trying to think of a name for a composition after I've written it but on this occasion it occurred to me that beginning with this title would take me in new compositional directions. And I believe it did.

Usually, my starting-point for a composition is a melody. But theres very little melody in the short movements of Quartet of Dances; rather, they are founded on rhythmic ideas. While there are no identifiable social dances to be heard no waltzes, foxtrots or tangos the rhythmic vitality of these pieces is intended to invoke the idea of dance in an abstract way.

As well, there is a playfulness about the title with its double-meaning that led me to consider other issues. As a result, my Quartet of Dances comes with its own built-in little manifesto: There is too much seriousness in contemporary music.

I claim no exemption from my own criticism, as some of my own works unabashedly strive for profundity and gravity. But in these dance movements, I have tried to inject some joie de vivre into new music.

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