Sheet Music: Score
Charleston noir : for string quartet / Elena Kats-Chernin.
by Elena Kats-Chernin (1997)
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- Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
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Audio Sample
Performance by Goldner String Quartet from the CD Elena Kats-Chernin. Vol. 8.
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Product details
This piece exists in a number of versions. Originally commissioned by Tall Poppies (Australian CD label) for 4 double basses, it became a piece for piano solo in 1996. A year later a somewhat shortened string quartet version followed.
At the core of it lies the charleston rhythm in the lower
register, in quite a dissonant manner-based on an interval of the
major seventh. Even though the overall tone of the piece is quite
edgy, dark and harsh, the piece also has some light moments. It
is a very free approach to a genre which, as a starting point,
inspired me. I have always had a fondness for charleston and
ragtime.
The originally requested piece for four double basses got
written, starting similarly to the piano version, but developing
in a different way. That version exists on Tall Poppies CD
"Chamber of Horrors".
EKC, July 2008
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Boosey & Hawkes) — 1 score (15p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 7 min.
First performance by Goldner String Quartet — Sep 98. University of Sydney
Typeset edition.
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- Solo Piano
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