String Quartet Sheet Music

Thomas (b. 1964) composed this four-movement work, premiered in 2003, in response to a poem by Emily Dickinson. 34 minutes.

This piece draws inspiration from the idea of mestizaje, where cultures can coexist without the subjugation of one by the other. It mixes elements from the western classical and Andean folk music trad...

The Tokyo String Quartet commissioned this string quartet composition in 2001. This one-movement piece about death and loss was written in memory of one of Tower's friends, and later, of those who die...

This string quartet was inspired by a photo of Corigliano's father playing a violin and his uncle playing the guitar. It was commissioned by the Elements String Quartet and premiered in November 2003...

This 1994 single-movement work is based on a hymn-like theme that both evokes the tradition of American hymn singing and echoes the much older tradition of plainchant. 22 minutes.

Tower's third string quartet contains a white heat from which ideas unfold, develop, interact, and gradually change their temperatures. 18 minutes.

Composed in April-July 1936, the Fourth Quartet was one the first pieces Schoenberg began after emigrating to the United States and settling in Brentwood, CA. It is also one of his first twelve-note c...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Music. ca. 39 minutes.

Angels for String Quartet by Joan Tower was composed in 2008 and premiered on August 31 2008 in Angel Fire, NM, performed by the Miami String Quartet. Angels is my fourth quartet - amediumI really lo...

Joan Tower's White Water - String Quartet No. 5. Score and parts. White Water is the first of four commissions for Chamber Music Monterey Bay's 'Arc of Life' project. TheartistBill Viola shared excer...

Written as the test piece for the CAVATINA Intercollegiate String Quartet Competition held at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, this short piece gives ensembles an opportunity to display their creativity b...

This poignant and reflective carol is set to a poetic text by Richard Wilbur inspired by verses from St Luke's Gospel. The poem foretells not only of Christ's birth, but also his death; the contrastin...

This four-movement work represents the composer's desire 'to write a piece of real chamber music, intimate and conversational in tone, drawing the listener into its worlds'. The result, he writes, 'is...

Commissioned by Cardiff University School of Music and dedicated to their resident string quartet, this work is in one unbroken span that is formed from four linked movements. The work features sharpl...

Written for the Smith Quartet, the title refers to some of the many different meanings of the word 'catch' - fishing, tricks, rounds. The result is a twelve-minute piece played continuously and full o...

Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the impulse being lyrical an...

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appea...