The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

By: Robin Stowell (Editor), Jonathan Cross (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 November 2003

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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.

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"Indeed the Companion's readability, together with its broad and timely coverage of topics and its fascinating selection of iconography (notably early photos of string quartets), entice the reader to further explore this music of friends." Notes

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Social Changes and Organological Developments
The string quartet and society
Developments in instruments, bows and accessories
Celebrated Ensembles
From chamber to concert hall
The concert explosion and the age of recording
Playing String Quartets
Playing quartets: a view from the inside
Historical awareness in quartet performance
Extending the technical and expressive frontiers
The String Quartet Repertory
The origins of the quartet
The Classical style: Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries
Beethoven and the Viennese legacy
The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century
Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and America
Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet
The string quartet in the twentieth century
The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles
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