Description |
xv, 373 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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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.
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Added Author |
Stowell, Robin.
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ISBN |
052180194X |
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0521000424 (pbk.) |
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