Setting Sail - string quartet
For Violin I, Violin II, Viola and Cello
PDF Download of sheet music including score and parts
First published 1999, revised 2014
Duration: 4 min. 30 sec.
Difficulty: Intermediate, AMEB Grade 5
Page Size: A4
For Violin I, Violin II, Viola and Cello
PDF Download of sheet music including score and parts
First published 1999, revised 2014
Duration: 4 min. 30 sec.
Difficulty: Intermediate, AMEB Grade 5
Page Size: A4
For Violin I, Violin II, Viola and Cello
PDF Download of sheet music including score and parts
First published 1999, revised 2014
Duration: 4 min. 30 sec.
Difficulty: Intermediate, AMEB Grade 5
Page Size: A4
Although this piece was written for string quartet, I imagine different themes to represent different instruments. The piece opens with a theme that resembles the song of a uilleann pipe (Irish bagpipe) or a flute. This is followed by a bodhrán (Irish frame drum) drum-beat from the cello. Then the violins’ themes come in, and all the subsequent themes begin to compete with each other in what becomes a joyous Celtic dance.