(Correlates with String Exlorer ook 1 Unit 13) Grade Level: 2 Rondo resto (rom String Quartet K 157) W A Mozart Arranged by Andrew H Dabczynski (ASCA) n s t r u m e n tat i o n Conductor Score 1 Violin 8 Violin 8 Violin (Viola ) 3 Viola 5 5 String ass 5 Accomaniment 1 A DVSON O lease note: Our band and orchestra music is now being collated by an automatic highseed system The enclosed arts are now sorted by age count rather than score order
rogram Notes Rondo resto is an arrangement o the inal movement o Mozart s String Quartet K 157 n C-major this quartet is one o six now known as Mozart s Easy Quartets and was comosed late in the year o 1772 At the time that he wrote this iece Mozart was all o 16 years old and was traveling in the area o Milan taly The quartet reresents Mozart s growth and maturity as a comoser o string quartets even at such a young age n this iece we can recognize oreshadowing o Mozart s later Great String Quartets Qualities o irmness grace and wit as well as security o musical orm are embedded in all the movements and certainly in the inal Rondo movement arranged here The Rondo is in the tyical seven arts (AACAA/ coda ) with the oening lively melody recurring as a recognizable signature theme throughout the iece Notes to the conductor Mozart s Early Quartet collection is recognized as a crown o string chamber music This accessible arrangement rom an arranger recognized or his careul and creative adatations o standard literature maintains the orm integrity and style o Mozart s original quartet The added bass art is indeendent and can be otional as it enhances other existing lines The iece is most eective when layed as ast as technique allows while still maintaining accuracy Notes marked with staccato dots should be layed o the string (siccato) with a bounced bow stroke i ossible Care should be taken to ollow bowings as they are marked to achieve best musical results Notes marked with tenuto lines should be slightly marked but held or their ull value Dynamic contrasts should be exaggerated to emhasize the youthul charm and wit o the iece The movement is in seven-art rondo orm (AACAA/ coda ) t begins with the recurring A theme reeated in its irst resentation The contrasting theme (m 17) is unusual in its three distinct arts: 1 (mm 17 20) is rhythmically active; 2 (mm 21 2) contrasts with augmented and slower rhythmic values; while 3 (mm 25 32) again incororates the aster rhythmic igures The A theme then returns (m 33) A new C theme is resented in m 9 contrasting in the relative A-minor (originally this section is in the arallel C-minor) As exected the A theme then returns (m 65) The next restatement o the theme in m 81 is unusual and sohisticated in that the irst rhythmically active igure ( 1 ) is missing rather the theme here begins with the longer 2 segment The active 3 material is then resented and this truncated section o the rondo is reeated lending a sense o balance to the orm The listener exects a return to the A theme and Mozart obliges ut here he closes the rondo by resenting the oening A-theme measures as anticiated and then cleverly extends them into a inal coda
CONDUCTOR SCORE Duration - 3:00 Violins Viola (Violin ) String ass Accomaniment C C C C C resto ( = 72-96) N * * * N N resto ( = 72-96) C C 1 Rondo resto (rom String Quartet K 157) * N 6 7 8 * lay reeated notes with dots o string i ossible Coyright 2009 by Highland/Etling ublishing a division o Alred ublishing Co nc All rights reserved rinted in USA 2 * N > (2 2 > 3 WA Mozart Arranged by Andrew H Dabczynski (ASCA) -) N 9 > 5 10 3
- 11 17 # 17 # # # 12 13 1 () # 15 # # 16 () # # # 17 18 19 20 21
5 () 22 # # # # # # # 23 # # 2 # # () # # 25 26 # # - 27 28 29 30 31
6 N N N 32 33 33 33 3 > > 35 36 > 37-38 39 0 1 2 3
7 N N # # 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 N 50 51 52 53 5 55
8 56 57 65 65 58 π π π π 59 60 dim dim dim dim dim dim 61 > > 62 63 6 65 66 67 68
9 > > 69 - - 70 71 72 73 7 75 76 77 78 79 80
10 81 81 N 81 82 83 89 89 π π 8 85 86 87 88 89 90
11 ṗ ṗ 91 cresc 92 93 ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ 9 95 96 97 98