String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.14023669
Composed by Michael
Nyman. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Score. Composed 1993. 48
pages. Chester Music
#CH60850. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14023669).
ISBN
9780711977570.
9.0x12.0x0.155
inches.
There are
two primary ideas behind
this composition, the
first being to create and
almost orchestral chamber
music, the idea for this
coming from a performance
of the Grosse Fuge
performed by the Arditti
Quartet. The second idea
was to excercise the
impressive and oppresive
history of the string
quartet by making the
work a compendium of
quotations from quartet
repertoire. Influence
from Schoenberg can be
heard in chromatic,
harmonic sequences and
modal/diatonic
varioations are also
actively displayed within
the piece. The quartet is
written with
amplification in mind and
it is the composer's
preference that it is
performed in this way.
String Quartet No.1 is
dedicated to the memory
of Thurston Dart. It was
commissioned by the
Arditti Quartet and first
performed by them on 23
September 1985, Warsaw.
Duration 26 minutes.
Instrumental parts are
available on sale.
