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This survey of the string quartet by ten chamber music specialists focuses on four main areas: social and musical background to the genres development; celebrated ensembles and their significance; and string quartet playing. It reviews aspects of contemporary and historical practice, including mixed ensembles. Informative appendixes and a full chronology of the mainstream repertory complete this compact guide.Was the first book to provide such a comprehensive view of the string quartetConsiders the repertory for string quartet as well as practical aspects of performanceEdited by the best-selling Cambridge editor of companions to the violin and cello

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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

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 quartets 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 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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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Edited by

Robin Stowell

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press 2003

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First published 2003

Reprinted 2005

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

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

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0 521 80194 X (hardback) ISBN 0 521 00042 4 (paperback)

1. String quartet. I. Stowell, Robin. II. Series.

ML1160.C36 2003

785.7194 dc21 2003043508

ISBN 978-0-521-80194-2 Hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-00042-0 Paperback

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Contents

Christina Bashford

Robin Stowell

Tully Potter

David Waterman

Simon Standage

Robin Stowell

David Wyn Jones

W. Dean Sutcliffe

David Wyn Jones

Stephen E. Hefling

Robin Stowell

Jan Smaczny

Kenneth Gloag

Colin Lawson

Illustrations

Contributors

Christina Bashford teaches at Oxford Brookes University, where she is Senior Lecturer in Music. She has published several articles and essays on chamber music and concert life in nineteenth-century London, and currently co-ordinates the Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century London Database research project. She was managing editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and joint editor, with Leanne Langley, of Music and British Culture, 17851914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich (2000).

Kenneth Gloag is a Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. His research interests include twentieth-century British music, the music of Stravinsky, popular music, and general critical and theoretical issues. His principal publications include a Cambridge Music Handbook on Tippetts A Child of Our Time (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and contributions to Tippett Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky . He has recently completed an essay on popular music and historical periodisation for the interdisciplinary journal Rethinking History and is currently writing a book on the music of Peter Maxwell Davies.

Stephen E. Hefling, Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, has also taught at Stanford, Yale and the Oberlin College Conservatory. He is the author of Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and edited the autograph piano version of that work for the Mahler Kritische Gesamtausgabe (1989). He is also editor of Mahler Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music (1998), and has contributed articles and chapters to 19th Century Music, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, Performance Practice Review , the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Nineteenth-Century Symphony (1997), The Mahler Companion (1999), etc. Also a specialist in baroque performance practice, Hefling has performed extensively with early music ensembles in the northeastern US, and his book Rhythmic Alteration in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music (1994) is widely regarded as the standard reference on that topic.

David Wyn Jones is a Reader in the Department of Music, Cardiff University and has written extensively on music of the Viennese Classical period. His publications include the Oxford Composer Companion: Haydn (2002), The Life of Beethoven (Cambridge University Press 1998), Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria (editor, Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony (Cambridge University Press, 1995). He is currently engaged on a research project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, The symphony in Beethovens Vienna.

Colin Lawson has an international profile as a period clarinettist, notably as a member of the English Concert, the Hanover Band and the London Classical Players, with which he has recorded extensively and toured worldwide. He has appeared as concerto soloist at many international venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, New York. His solo discography includes concertos by Fasch, Hook, Mahon, Mozart, Spohr, Telemann, Vivaldi and Weber, as well as a considerable variety of chamber music. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (Cambridge University Press, 1995), author of two Cambridge Music Handbooks (1996, 1998) and co-author of The Historical Performance of Music: an Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He has also written a book on playing the early clarinet and is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Sheffield and London prior to his current appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor at Thames Valley University.

Tully Potter was born in Edinburgh in 1942 but spent his formative years in South Africa, where he grew to appreciate music. The human voice was his first interest and he studied singing in Johannesburg with Leah Williams; but he came to the conclusion that his place in music was as a listener. He has been collecting records seriously since he was twelve and has made a special study of performing practice as revealed in historic recordings. He has contributed to many international musical journals, notably The Strad , and since 1997 he has edited Classic Record Collector . His biography of Adolf Busch is due to be published soon and he is preparing a book on the great string quartet ensembles.

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