Product Description
Hey string players and teachers,
are you looking for something different to program or teach your students? This
collection of pieces, suitable for beginning and experienced ensembles, may be
what youre looking for.
For the choral musician, the a
capella motets of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods, some
well-known and others less so, comprise some of the richest and most beautiful
works of choral literature. Unless otherwise indicated, the pieces in this
collection are all set for a standard string quartet of 2 violins, viola, and
cello, instruments most closely able to mimic the inflections of the human
voice. The intent of these arrangements is to enable the string musician to
experience a genre perhaps less familiar, from the relatively simple yet
sublime homophonic piece, to the varying degrees of rhythmic complexity of
polyphonic works and their juxtaposed interplay of duple and triple rhythmic
figures. With the purchase of this collection, permission is granted to photocopy
parts as needed. Vocal breath marks () above the staff are meant to serve as
guides in phrasing. In keeping with the period, no dynamics are indicated, and
tempo markings and slurs are only suggestions. The performer is free to
interpret as desired.
The audio example is of the
first several pieces in the collection.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.