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

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  785.7194 C144s 2003    ---  Available
Description xv, 373 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series Cambridge companions to music
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-354) and index.
Contents String quartet and society / Christina Bashford -- Developments in instruments, bows and accessories / Robin Stowell -- From chamber to concert hall / Tully Potter -- 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 -- Origins of the quartet / David Wyn Jones -- Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries / W. Dean Sutcliffe -- Beethoven and the Viennese legacy / David Wyn Jones -- 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 -- String quartet in the twentieth century / Kenneth Gloag -- String quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles / Colin Lawson.
Subject String quartet.
Added Author Stowell, Robin.
ISBN 052180194X
0521000424 (pbk.)

 
    
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