The Cambridge companion to the string quartet / / edited by Robin Stowell [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 785.7/194
• Soggetto topico: String quartet
• Persona (resp. second.): StowellRobin
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-354) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The string quartet and society / Christina Bashford -- Developments in instruments, bows and accessories / Robin Stowell -- From chamber to concert hall ; The concert explosion and the age of recording / Tully Potter -- Playing quartets : a view from the inside / David Waterman -- Historical awareness in quartet performance / Simon Standage -- Extending the technical and expressive frontiers / Robin Stowell -- The origins of the quartet / David Wyn Jones -- Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries / W. Dean Sutcliffe -- Beethoven and the Viennese legacy / David Wyn Jones -- The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century / Stephen E. Hefling -- Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends : France, Italy, Great Britain and America / Robin Stowell -- Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet / Jan Smaczny -- The string quartet in the twentieth century / Kenneth Gloag -- The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles / Colin Lawson.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cambridge companion to the string quartet
• ISBN: 1-139-81652-7; 0-511-99890-2; 1-280-41901-6; 0-511-07790-4; 0-511-17037-8; 0-511-20628-3; 0-511-29745-9; 0-511-07633-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210504103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to music.