The Cambridge companion to the string quartet / edited by Robin Stowell.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description
xv, 373 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.

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    Series
    Cambridge companions to music [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 052180194X (hb.)
    • 0521000424 (pb.)
    LCCN
    2003043508
    OCLC
    51566522
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