String Quartet #1 (Yuki) by Ed Sharpe Sheet Music for String Quartet at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Ed Sharpe

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Ed Sharpe

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 35

Arrangement String Quartet

Publisher Ed Sharpe

Level 5

Product ID 1124706

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Performance Group String Quartet

Product Description

This is a short five movement piece for string quartet. Each movement is only about one minute each. And each movement is one line of a tanka that I wrote about Snow (Yuki). I wrote the second movement first and all of the material in the other four movements appears in or is derived from the second movement. Given this, one can think of the first movement as a prelude with the second movement being the main movement. The fifth movement re-states the main motifs of the first four movements, combining them into one large polyphonic mass.

Unable to sleep I listen throughout the night to the silent song of falling snow in my yard. With the soft dawn, satori.

The first movement is built around the pentatonic scale F# G B C# D. (The Japanese Hirajoshi Scale; )

The second movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A.

The third movement is built around the pentatonic scale D Eb G A Bb.

The fourth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C Dd F G Ab, but does not strictly adhere to the scale in places.

The fifth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A, but does not strictly adhere to the scale in places

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