The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
by Edited by Robin StowellFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the string quartet, the music and its interpretation.
Table of Contents
| Part I. Social Changes and Organological Developments: 1. The string quartet and society Christina Bashford | |
| 2. Developments in instruments, bows and accessories Robin Stowell | |
| Part II. Celebrated Ensembles: 3. From chamber to concert hall Tully Potter | |
| 4. The concert explosion and the age of recording Tully Potter | |
| Part III. Playing String Quartets: 5. Playing quartets: a view from the inside David Waterman | |
| 6. Historical awareness in quartet performance Simon Standage | |
| 7. Extending the technical and expressive frontiers Robin Stowell | |
| Part IV. The String Quartet Repertory: 8. The origins of the quartet David Wyn Jones | |
| 9. The Classical style: Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries W. Dean Sutcliffe | |
| 10. Beethoven and the Viennese legacy David Wyn Jones | |
| 11. The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century Stephen E. Hefling | |
| 12. Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and America Robin Stowell | |
| 13. Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet Jan Smaczny | |
| 14. The string quartet in the twentieth century Kenneth Gloag | |
| 15. The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles Colin Lawson. |
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