Intimate voices : the twentieth-century string quartet / edited by Evan Jones.

Other author Jones, Evan Allan, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Description2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects
String quartet--20th century.
String quartet--20th century. --Analysis, appreciation.

Portion of title Twentieth-century string quartet
Variant title Intimate voices : the 20th-century string quartet
Variant title 20th-century string quartet
SeriesEastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 70-71
Eastman studies in music ; v. 70-71. ^A494093
Contents v. 1. Debussy to Villa-Lobos. The string quartets of Debussy and Ravel / Marianne Wheeldon -- Sibelius's "Internal voices": structure and process in the Quartet in D minor (Voces intimae), op. 56 / Joseph Kraus -- The pitch language of the Bartók quartets / Joseph N. Straus -- The string quartet in the music of Paul Hindemith / David Neumeyer -- Comprehensibility, variation, and the string quartet tradition: the second movement of Arnold Schoenberg's third quartet, op. 30 / Matthew R. Shaftel -- Process in the string quartets of Alban Berg / Dave Headlam -- Webern's music for string quartet / David Clampitt -- Villa-Lobos's string quartets / Eero Tarasti -- Appropriate tradition: the string quartets of Sergei Prokofiev, opp. 50 and 92 / Neil Minturn -- v. 2. Shostakovich to the avant-garde. Dmitri Shostakovich: the string quartets / Patrick McCreless -- Supported by tradition: sonority, form, and transcendence in Britten's string quartets / Christopher Mark -- György Ligeti's string quartets / Jane Piper Clendinning -- Becoming Berio: evidence from his first three string quartets / Richard Hermann -- An experiential account of musical form in Xenakis's string quartets / Evan Jones -- The string quartets of Giacinto Scelsi / Eric Drott -- "A line in rhythmic space": John Cage's String quartet in four parts (1950) / David W. Bernstein -- The string quartets of Milton Babbitt / Andrew Mead -- The string quartets of Elliott Carter / Jonathan W. Bernard -- Mel Powell and the string quartet / Jeffrey Perry -- The string quartets of Shulamit Ran / Robert W. Peck.
Abstract Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players and of listeners in the concert hall and at home. Yet, until now, no book has addressed the language of these remarkable works, their interactions with the masterpieces of Beethoven and others, and their new approaches to musical expression. This book, organized in rough chronological order, offers the observations and intuitions of twenty leading authorities on quartets by twenty-one composers from eleven countries. Its two volumes--available separately or together--comprise an indispensable guide to amateur and professional chamber musicians, scholars, students, and anyone seeking a deeper acquaintance with the great achievements of twentieth-century music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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