Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

string quartet and narrator (ad lib.)

Mircea Saulesco commissioned Alligun for his well-known quartet. This one movement work includes an Introduction, Allegro, Berceuse and Coda. The Introduction features crashing dissonant chords. The a...

French-speaking call Mozart Mosar, while for Icelanders it means moss. This work was also partially inspired by the section of the mysterious Voynich manuscript from the 15th century that deals with h...

The initially calm atmosphere of the exposition gradually gives way to agitation, as arpeggios run from one instrument to the next, underscored by arpeggiated pizzicato chords. The piece comes to a cl...

A set of sixteen short duets aimed at players at around UK Grade 1-2 with a range of one octave, ideal for teaching. Both parts share the melodies equally trhoughout each piece and each piece is prese...

A set of sixteen short duets aimed at players at around UK Grade 1-2 with a range of one octave, ideal for teaching. Both parts share the melodies equally trhoughout each piece and each piece is prese...

Twelve short trios at UK Grade 5 level, ideal for use as ensemble performance pieces at (I)GCSE / AS Level as well as for general concert use, either as stand-alone pieces or in combination with other...

Twelve short trios at UK Grade 5 level, ideal for use as ensemble performance pieces at (I)GCSE / AS Level as well as for general concert use, either as stand-alone pieces or in combination with other...

Twelve short trios at UK Grade 5 level, ideal for use as ensemble performance pieces at (I)GCSE / AS Level as well as for general concert use, either as stand-alone pieces or in combination with other...

Twelve short trios at UK Grade 5 level, ideal for use as ensemble performance pieces at (I)GCSE / AS Level as well as for general concert use, either as stand-alone pieces or in combination with other...

This piece centres on the medium of air. I wanted to produce a musical interpretation of the mythical figure of Icarus. This myth says a lot about the role of the artist. I have been inspired by a won...

The Aria for strings composed in Aldeburgh in 2015 is an aria in the literal sense: the multiple divided strings give the impression of imaginary voices. Each part is separately developed in the funda...

Having touched on the romantic era in 'To a Wild Rose' and the classical era in 'An die Musik', Kember moves forward to the twentieth-century with this thoughtfully chosen collection for string quarte...

Having touched on the romantic era in 'To a Wild Rose' and the classical era in 'An die Musik', Kember moves forward to the twentieth-century with this thoughtfully chosen collection for string quarte...

Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble in 2014, String Quintet is one of Maxwell Davies' last works. This intense chamber work is filled with his characteristic harmonies which give the melody and harmony...

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacin...

Foreign Tongues explores a different way of looking at the standard string quartet setup. Envisaged as a work where the cello is pitted against the rest of the string players, the piece aims to explor...

Set across four movements, 'Quatre Tableaux’ (French for ‘Four Pictures') presents four vignettes that progressively build in intensity. The work begins with a luminous calmness that gradually escalat...

The piece opens with the strings swaying between two notes that are either right next to each other or 15 tones apart but the interplay of these two notes sets each instrument in sympathetic vibration...

My second string trio is a more large-scale piece than the compact, single-movement first, written just over a decade ago. It is made up of seven short movements, each one picking up an idea, or a not...