Richards: Pulse and Drone for String Quartet Genre_Three Winds w/pianoCode: JP9002 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0554 8 "Pulse" and "Drone" are the unifying features of virtually all musics throughout time and place. This work for string quartet, by Paul Richards, gradually unfolds different beat subdivisions (pulses) and tonal centers (drones) in a rhythmic arch form, followed by a sustained chorale coda with very little sense of pulse. Pulse and Drone was the winner of the 2000 New Music for Sligo Irish Music Rights Organization
the etudes must be played musically
'followed by a mind-boggling subsequent marking of 'più mosso'(a paradox resolved by the fact that the music becomes easier at that point)
The solo contains challenging technique with large interval leaps that will impress the audience
The first movement (Allegro) is set in traditional sonata form with two contrasting themes
Code: JP2071
approximately 6
The Sonata No
The work comprises three movements
has corrected many pitch and rhythmic errors and removed excessive articulation marks found in many other editions
The last movement is a tarantella
with a narrator to make a wonderful
and Allegro giocoso