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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826549
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

The String Quartets of Beethoven

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091620
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The String Quartets of Beethoven written by William Kinderman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.

Beethoven for a Later Age

Author : Edward Dusinberre
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571317154
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven for a Later Age written by Edward Dusinberre and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets. Tackling the Beethoven quartets is a rite of passage that has shaped the Takács Quartet's work together for over forty years. Using the history of the composition and first performances of the quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács since 1993 - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life as one of the world's renowned string quartets. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of the Juilliard School, to join the Quartet as its first non-Hungarian member - an exhilarating challenge. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people enjoy making music together over a long period of time. The key, the author argues, is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation - a theme that also lies at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions.

Arranging for Strings

Author : Mimi Rabson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540025527
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Arranging for Strings written by Mimi Rabson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Learn to use strings in your compositions and arrangements! From romantic chord pads to powerful grooves to gut-wrenching passionate melodies, strings do it all. This book presents time-tested techniques and contemporary developments in writing and arranging for strings. You'll learn strategies for authentic writing in many different styles and find ideas to take your personal sound forward. Discover voicings that work best for each project and explore the intricacies of bowing. Hear articulation approaches from pads to chopping in the online audio examples. See how other composers have used strings to heighten the impact of their music in the written examples. Make your work stand out with the drama and depth that well informed string writing can bring. You will learn: * The tunings, range, and timbres for the violin, viola, cello, and bass, including standard instruments and common variations, including acoustic, electric, and synthesized string instruments and sections * Bowing techniques and possibilities * Characteristic articulations and sounds, such as vibrato, pizzicato, sul tasto, trills, tremolos, and harmonics * Timbral and rhythm effects, such as chop technique, ponticello/feedback, portamento, and falls * String-section arranging techniques, such as melody/countermelody, fills, pads, and comping * Stylistic nuances of genres such as American roots, Celtic, jazz, rock, klezmer, eastern European, Gypsy jazz, and swing * Mic, recording, and live sound techniques for capturing the best string sounds for both acoustic and electric instruments

The String Quartets of Béla Bartók

Author : Daniel Biro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199936188
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The String Quartets of Béla Bartók written by Daniel Biro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the centre of Bartók's œuvre are his string quartets, which are generally acknowledged as some of the most significant pieces of 20th century chamber music. This book examines these remarkable works from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

Author : Floyd Grave
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883912
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn written by Floyd Grave and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of quartets is characterized in terms of its particular mix of structural conventions and novelties, stylistic allusions, and its special points of connection with other opus groups in the series. Throughout the book, the authors draw attention to the boundless supply of compositional strategies by which Haydn appears to be continually rethinking, reevaluating, and refining the quartet's potentials. They also lucidly describe Haydn's famous penchant for wit, humor, and compositional artifice, illuminating the unexpected connections he draws between seemingly unrelated ideas, his irony, and his lightning bolts of surprise and thwarted expectation. Approaching the quartets from a variety of vantage points, the authors correct many prevailing assumptions about convention, innovation, and developing compositional technique in the music of Haydn and his contemporaries.

The String Quartet

Author : Jos Langens
Publisher : Jos Langens
ISBN 13 : 9464431849
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The String Quartet written by Jos Langens and published by Jos Langens. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about how you as a human being are part of a species that makes the fate of all other living things entirely subservient to its own needs and uses its fellow inhabitants purely to meet those needs? What would happen if that were to change? What would happen if people chose to exchange that which makes them human for something else? That's what seems to be happening in "The String Quartet". A string of seemingly inexplicable events gradually reveals how our anthropocentric way of life is about to be fundamentally and irrevocably changed. Classical string quartet music plays a central role in these events. How do these situations arise, and what is the driving force behind the sometimes irrational choices people make – or seem to make – of their own free will? The events described in The String Quartet and the resulting choices people make invite you as a reader to reflect on your own situation and how you lead your life. What choices have you made, and what choices will you make in the future? And how sure are you that those choices are yours?

Indivisible by Four

Author : Arnold Steinhardt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527006
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Indivisible by Four written by Arnold Steinhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells of his own development as a student, "of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music ... [and of how] four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing."--Jacket.

The String Quartet, 1750–1797

Author : Mara Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351540270
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The String Quartet, 1750–1797 written by Mara Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the relationships between the four instruments in different works. Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns: the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the 'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic choices, location, intended performers and intended audience. Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as circumstances and their own creative impulses required.

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Author : Joanne Martin
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457408144
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra written by Joanne Martin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: * Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521000420
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Author : Joanne Martin
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457405341
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra written by Joanne Martin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festive Strings is a collection of well-known Christmas and Chanukah melodies arranged to meet the needs of individuals, groups and orchestras. In order to provide flexibility, the collection is available in a number of instrumentations, all of which are compatible with each other. Accessible keys have been used and shifting is kept to a minimum. Titles are: * Jingle Bells in D Major * Joy to the World * Chanukah * Away in a Manger * Jolly Old Saint Nicholas * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * S'Vivon * Jingle Bells in A Major * Lo, How a Rose * O Christmas Tree.

More Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Author : Joanne Martin
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457405877
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book More Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra written by Joanne Martin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Festive Strings is a collection of well-known Christmas and Chanukah melodies arranged to meet the needs of individuals, groups and orchestras. In order to provide flexibility, the collection is available in a number of instrumentations, all of which are compatible with each other. Accessible keys have been used and shifting is kept to a minimum. Titles are: * O Chanukah * Angels We Have Heard on High * We Three Kings * Silent Night in D Major * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * O Come All Ye Faithful * Dreydl * Silent Night in G Major * Good King Wenceslas * What Child Is This (Greensleeves).

More Folk Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Author : Joanne Martin
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457410154
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book More Folk Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra written by Joanne Martin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Folk Strings is a collection of melodies from around the world, in a variety of moods and with rhythmic patterns and harmonies that are representative of their country of origin. Because of the flexible scoring used in More Folk Strings, players at a variety of levels can make music together and less experienced players can play the solo (melody) parts, which use little or no shifting and are in accessible keys. Some pieces in the collection are easier than others. The collection is available in a number of instrumentations for string quartet or string orchestra, for violin ensemble, viola ensemble, cello ensemble, for two, three, or four violin, viola or cello players in any combination of these instruments, and for solo violin, solo viola, and solo cello. The piano accompaniment may be used with any of the combinations. In More Folk Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra, the melody is passed around so that all members of the ensemble can have the opportunity to play the tune. Score and parts are marked with "melody" and "harmony" to help players bring out the melody at the appropriate moment. Teachers' notes provide lyrics and background information on each folk song in addition to rehearsal and performance suggestions.

Fundamentals of Musical Art: The violin, 'cello and string quartet

Author : Edward Dickinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Musical Art: The violin, 'cello and string quartet written by Edward Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190059206
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 written by Nancy November and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-hearing Op. 131 -- Popular and early reception -- "A new kind of part writing" -- "Like an overly large fantasy" -- Op. 131 and the Rise of Attentive Listening.

The Big Book of Christmas Carols

Author :
Publisher : Amsco Music
ISBN 13 : 9780711989924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Christmas Carols written by and published by Amsco Music. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All through the night - Angels from the realms of glory - As with gladness men of old - Auld lang syne - Away in a manger - The boar's head carol - A child this day is born - Christians awake - The Coventry carol - Deck the halls - Ding-dong merrily on high - The first nowell - God rest thee merry gentlemen - Good King Wenscelas - Hark, the herald angels sing - The holly and the ivy - How far is it to Bethlehem - I saw three ships - In dulce jubilo - In the bleak midwinter - Infant holy, infant lowly - It came upon a midnight clear - Jingle bells - Joy to the world - Lullay my liking - Mary had a baby - My dancing day - O Christmas tree (O Tannenbaum) - O come all ye faithful - O come O come Emmanuel - O little town of Bethlehem - Once in royal David's city - Past Three o'clock - Quem pastores (Shepherd's left their flocks astraying) - Rocking - Sans day carol - See amid the winter's snow - Silent night - Sing lullaby - Sussex carol - The truth from above - The twelve days of Christmas - Unto us a boy is born - Wassail song - We three kings of Orient are - We wish you a merry Christmas - What child is this? - Whence is that goodly fragrance - While shepherds watched.