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chamber ensemble analysis
Chamber Music
classical era performance practice
Classical String Quartet
composer stylistic choices
Concert Spirituel
De Genlis
eighteenth century music
Eighteenth Century String Quartet
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Franz Krommer
Fugal Finales
Haydn's Op
Haydn’s Op
Homophonie Texture
Ignace Pleyel
instrumental discourse
Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf
Kenner Und Liebhaber
Luigi Boccherini
Madame Necker
Mozart
musicology research
Polite Conversation
quartet interaction patterns
Quatuors Concertants
String Quartet
String Quartet Performance
Surface Rhythm
Varied Finale Structure
Viennese Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Product details
- ISBN 9781840146820
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the relationships between the four instruments in different works. Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns: the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the 'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic choices, location, intended performers and intended audience. Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as circumstances and their own creative impulses required.
Mara Parker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and String Performance at Widener University in Chester, PA. In addition to her work on the eighteenth-century string quartet, her research interests include chamber music of all types, cello technique and performers, and early nineteenth-century American music. A founding member of the Del Mar String Quartet and the CSU Faculty Trio, she regularly performs in chamber and solo recitals.
