related works
Xi Què (Magpie) : for great bass recorder in C / Wilma Pistorius
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Recorder
Scoring:
rec-b
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
... et dolentem (after Orlandus Lassus, Stabat Mater) : for string quartet / Jeroen D'hoe
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
String quartet : for string quartet, 1998 / Edward Top
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
composition
Jitterbug Quartet : for string quartet / Wilma Pistorius
Author(s):
Pistorius, Wilma
(Composer)
Description:
‘Jitterbug Quartet’ is inspired by one of the composer’s favourite novels, ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ by Tom Robbins; a story about perfume, immortality, and the meaning of life. The piece is about dignified wildness (as seen in the jitterbug, a swing dance from the early 20th century), about outrageous and uncompromising sweetness (as smelled in jasmine), and about beatific lightness (as felt by a feather drifting delicately on the wind).