Streichquartett
Partitur und Stimmen
for | 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet) |
Musical Editions | Score, Parts |
Item no. | 1317583 |
Author / Composer | Robert Russell Bennett |
Editor | Somers, Janet / Somers, Paul |
Release year | 2017 |
Publisher / Producer | Maurice River Press |
Producer No. | PRLK 49403082 |
ISBN | 9781491123010 |
UPC | 0680160643370 |
A 1937 string quartet by a composer perhaps better known as arranger/orchestrator of some 300 Broadway and London productions, Water Music uses the folk tune Sailors' Hornpipe as a starting point. But, as the publisher points out, it "soon becomes a witty compendium of modernist techniques, though omitting 12-tone. Not very far into the piece, for example, Bennett puts each player in a different key. He fragments and reassembles the tune to dramatic effect well beyond what one would expect from an essentially trivial folk melody."