String Quartet, 1750–1797 (Record no. 3028)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138384088
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Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 52.99
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mara Parker
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Title String Quartet, 1750–1797
Remainder of title Four Types of Musical Conversation
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20180918
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 336 p
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Expansion of summary note 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.

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