Essay for String Quartet

Martin Hebel

Essay For String Quartet 2016

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Martin Hebel

Essay For String Quartet Excerpted from Symphony No.3 in E Minor: Concert in Three Acts

Instrumentation Violin I Violin II Viola Violoncello

Program Notes Essay for String Quartet examines registral and beat hierarchy in developing the primary theme from my Symphony No.3 in E Minor: Concert in Three Acts. Essay transitions between traditional quartet voicing and complete inversion of registral hierarchy while shifting from a strong sense of beat hierarchy to its near absence and back again.

I excerpted this composition, originally the symphony’s third movement, without musical changes, simply reformatted for performance as an independent chamber work.

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Essay

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for String Quartet

Martin Hebel

Adagio liberamente q=60

4 4

Violin I

p

mp

p

mp

p

mp

4 4

Violin II

4 4

Viola

4 4

Violoncello

p 1

2

mp

3

4

5

6

9 Vln. I p

mf

Vln. II p

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Vla. p

mf

mp

Vc. mf 7

8

9

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17

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17 Vln. I p

mp

p

Vln. II p

mp

p

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f

Vla.

Vc. f 13

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22 Vln. I mp

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mp

mp

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mp

Vln. II

Vla. mp

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pp

mp

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Vc.

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28 Vln. I p

Vln. II p

Vla. pp

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Vc. pp 25

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33 Vln. I mp

Vln. II mp

Vla. mp

Vc. p 30

mf 31

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39 Vln. I pp

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pp

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pp

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Vln. II

Vla.

Vc.

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poco accel.

3 4

Vln. I p

pp

3 4

Vln. II p

pp

3 4

Vla. p

pp

3 4

Vc. p 43

pp 44

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50 Andante tranquillo q=75 Vln. I espr., cantando

Vln. II espr., cantando Vla. espr., cantando

Vc. pp espr., cantando 50

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58 3

Vln. I p

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Vln. II p

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Vla.

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poco rit.

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mf 66

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4 4

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pp

Vc. mp

4 4 pp

Vla. mp

5 4

pp

Vln. II mp

4 4

pp 71

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Vln. I

75 Lento q=50 5 4

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5 4

Vln. II

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7 4

5 4

Vla.

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7 4

5 4

p

mp

3

Vc.

5 4

7 4 mp

mf 75

mp 76

mf 77

f 78

5 4 p

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poco rit.

Vln. I

81 5 4

sul tasto

4 4

5 4

mp

mf

f

pp

sul tasto Vln. II

5 4

4 4 pp

Vla.

mp

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f

4 4 pp

Vc.

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p

5 4

mp

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f

4 4 p 81

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poco rit.

(sul tasto) Vln. I

5 4

6 4

5 4

7 4

5 4

7 4

5 4

7 4

5 4

7 4

mp ord.

Vln. II

5 4

6 4 p espr. con dolore

mf

sul tasto Vla.

5 4

6 4 mp

pp sul tasto Vc.

5 4

6 4 pp

mp

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95 A tempo q=50 sul tasto Vln. I

7 4

6 4

5 4

f 3

Vln. II

7 4

pp

pp

sul tasto

3

6 4 f

5 4 pp

pp sul tasto

Vla.

7 4

6 4

5 4

f

Vc.

7 4

pp

6 4

5 4

f 94

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rit.

4 4

Vln. I pp

3 4

4 4

3 4

4 4

3 4

4 4

3 4

4 4

p

4 4

Vln. II pp

p

4 4

Vla. pp

p

4 4

Vc. pp

p 98

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103 Andante sostenuto q=70

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ord.

Vln. I

4 4 sub f ord.

Vln. II

4 4 sub f ord.

Vla.

4 4 sub f ord.

Vc.

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Vln. I ff

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Vln. II mf

Vla.

Vc.

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115 rit.

Vln. I mp

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pp

mp

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pp

mp

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pp

mp

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pp

Vln. II

Vla.

Vc.

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