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String quartet
The aesthetic of this composition begins with a flurry of notes creating a wall of sound and slowly disintegrates into becoming something light and airy. Beginning is dense and hurried with overlapping entrances, in the beginning I aim to achieve an overall effect of very smooth and natural slowing …
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String Quartet I
String Quartet I is a composition in four movements for string quartet. Each movement expresses a specific emotional and sensory experience with rainwater. Movement I, "Flood Plain," was inspired by wetlands in Nebraska and Kansas. Because the water is shallow and broken up by tall grass, it is …
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Electronic String Quartet #1
Electronic String Quartet #1 by Ted Smoker incorporates the expressiveness of live string performance with the sonic capabilities of music technology through the use of electronic effects processing. This piece incorporates pitch-set theory, polytonality, Lydian and Phrygian church modes, …
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Leyla and Mejnun for String Quartet
<p>Leyla and Mejnun for string quartet relates a classical Middle Eastern love story. A young poet named Qays Ibn Al-Mulawwah fell in love with his cousin Leyla. He went mad when her father prevented him from marrying her. The music consists of four interwoven movements. The Prelude is based on a …
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Phylogenetic Tree Inferences Using Quartet Splits
… $|B|=2$. These are referred to as {\underline{quartet splits}}. We say that a set $\A$ of quartet splits infers another quartet $s\notin \A$ if every tree that displays $\A$ must also display $s$. In his Master's Thesis {\textit{Reconstruction Methods for Derivation Trees}}, Dekker showed that …
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Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
At their origins, American string quartets achieved a high standard of performance through full-time commitments made financially possible through individual patrons. As the American music scene matured through the twentieth century, the string quartet profession integrated performance and …
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Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
… is not a concerto, balancing the relatively weak quartet of strings with the full wind ensemble creates challenges, which Sinfonietta addresses in four ways. It uses the strings as individual and string tutti soloists with sparse accompaniment. It creates windows inside heavy textures to allow the …
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The evolution of the tuba quartet and its repertoire
… history and works by well-known composers, tuba quartets are challenged with educating their audiences about the tuba and overcoming negative biases about their instruments and repertoire. Established in the mid-twentieth century, the tuba quartet is an important medium for increasing the …
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The Victor Brass Quartet: Its Genesis, History, and Literature
… and recording activities of the Victor Brass Quartet from 1901-1912. This study begins in 1856 with the musical activities of William Horatio Clarke, the famous American organist and organ builder, and includes biographies on the early years of William's sons Herbert L. Clarke, Edwin Clarke, …
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A natural quartet: working with nature for a humane 21st century
… and the pursuit of happiness: four ideas -- a quartet -- are woven into the fabric of the Declaration of Independence, American culture and other cultures. This exploration of the powerful and useful quartet of ideas opens with how these four ideas were adapted by Thomas Jefferson, the primary …
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Arcadia : an original composition for amplified mixed quartet and audiovisual fixed media
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An analysis of transformation procedures in Gyorgy Ligeti's String Quartet No. 2
Gyorgy Ligeti's emigration from Hungary to Austria in 1957 gave him his first chance to study serial music firsthand. After a brief period of reflection he decided that serialism was not for him, but the insights gained from his examination of it, as well as his new experiences in electronic music, …
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Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet: Resilient structures, indeterminate localities, and performance practice
When Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet was premiered in 2010 by the JACK Quartet, the work’s innovative, physical action-based score drew considerable attention in contemporary music circles. Despite the enduring enthusiasm for Cassidy’s multi-colored prescriptive notation, much of the …
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AN ANALYSIS OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S POLYSTYLISM IN HIS STRING QUARTET NO. 3 (1983)
… theoretical analysis of Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3, as one of the major works within the idea of polystylism. Further examinations will include Schnittke's use of motivic connections in relation to polystylism, such as the BACH and DSCH motives of Bach and Shostakovich, Orlando di …
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The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet
… with an analysis of Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet. It is, in essence, a score analysis, but one that puts the physicality of performance front and center. Holliger’s Quartet is fundamentally about physical transformations and interactions: progressions of bow position, changes in finger …
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Totality of experience: sound, music and mythology in Gus Van Sant’s “Death Quartet”
… as emotional signifier. The films of the “Death Quartet”, which includes Paranoid Park (2007), I believe, offer fertile ground on which to explore these new approaches. It is my contention that these films deconstruct the traditional approach to soundtracking and the relationship between …
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