Camb Comp to the String Quartet (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Softcover

Stowell, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521000424 ISBN 13: 9780521000420

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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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Robin Stowell is Professor and Head of Music at the University of Wales College of Cardiff and a professional violinist who has written extensively on stringed instruments and performance. He is author of Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1985), Beethoven: Violin Concerto (1998) and The Early Violin and Viola (2001), editor of Performing Beethoven (1994), The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (1992), The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (1999) and co-author of The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction (1999), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521000424
• ISBN 13: 9780521000420
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar