Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet - Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos

Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.

List of contents

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 C. 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 - David 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

About the author

Edited by Evan Jones

Product details

• Authors: David Clampitt, Evan Jones
• Assisted by: Evan Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2009
• EAN: 9781580462297
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-229-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology; Afrika, Musik: Stile und Gattungen, Musikkritik, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Chamber