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 Female composers, quartets
Author: JonTheReeds 
Date:   2016-09-11 21:37

I play in an informal clarinet quartet and we are looking for quartets written by female composers. Any ideas?

Actual clarinet quartets would be best, but any that can easily be played by clarinetists would be great, or in a format that they can be transposed using MuseScore (.mscz files)

Many thanks

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Dan Oberlin 2017
Date:   2016-09-12 01:48

French Suite, Suite Italienne by Yvonne Desportes!!!

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Lelia Loban 2017
Date:   2016-09-12 18:25

Shameless plug: I arranged François Couperin's "The Mysterious Barricades" (originally for harpsichord) as a clarinet quartet. Since I'm an amateur, these pieces can be downloaded, listened to online (your computer trying to pretend it's clarinets . . . good luck with that . . . ) or printed out free of charge on Score Exchange:
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/72378.html

If you can get a quintet together, I've also posted an original piece for clarinet quintet, "Metamorphosis I: Luna Moths,"
http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/72384

Those two pieces can also be played by a clarinet choir. I've included the individual parts arranged for various choices of clarinets (choice of soprano in A or Bb, for instance) that can be printed out separately from the full score. The link below my signature goes to my main page where there are some original scores for other clarinet music.

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.

Post Edited (2016-09-12 18:28)

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Hurstfarm 
Date:   2016-09-12 21:10

Bagatelle and Caprice by Clare Grundman.

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: rmk54 
Date:   2016-09-12 21:28

Umm, Clare Grundman was male...

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Hurstfarm 
Date:   2016-09-13 02:06

Oops - awkward. I'll remember that! :)

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: brycon 
Date:   2016-09-13 04:18

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has a clarinet quartet. It isn't one of her best pieces; though to be fair, it is a clarinet quartet.

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Johan H Nilsson 
Date:   2016-09-14 17:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igksxdv6xVA

:-)

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 Re: Female composers, quartets
Author: Lelia Loban 2017
Date:   2016-09-15 17:00

Johan H Nilsson posted,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igksxdv6xVA

Thank you for that link! "FuGaGa" is relevant here because it's a Lady Gaga song (arranged for clarinet quartet by Nenad Petkovic), but I hope everyone will follow up by listening to Nevsky's other YouTube recordings, especially the comedy olio, "Blowbasterds." (Ever try blowing a clarinet while someone else fingers it? That's the "Mission Impossible" ending of "Blowbasterds.")

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.

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