String quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49044143
For
string quartet.
Composed by Detlev
Mueller-Siemens. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Softcover. Composed 2011.
96 pages. Duration 12'.
Schott Music #ED21351.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49044143).
ISBN
9790001187237.
...c
alled dusk II for string
quartet draws its
inspiration from a line
in Samuel Beckett's short
story Lessness: 'Figment
dawn dispeller of
figments and the other
called dusk'.The work is
a kind of double
Chaconne, each part of
which contains 26 chords
based on specific
permutations of
fundamental notes and
their harmonics. Each of
the parts pass through
alternating, harmonically
contrasted planes,
becoming entwined in the
manner of a chimera
through their rhythmic
structure and dynamics.
This intermittently
produces a sort of 'inner
voice' which runs through
all four instruments. The
fundamental notes and
harmonics separate during
the progress of the
composition, becoming
independent and then
disintegrating. The
consonant harmony
resulting from the
amalgamation of the two
planes ultimately
collapses into a rigid
motor-like linearity.
Detlev
Muller-Siemens.