String quartet - Difficult SKU: OU.9780193386662
Composed by Michael Finnissy. String Quartets. 84 pages. Duration 45'. Oxford University Press #9780193386662. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193386662). ISBN 9780193386662. 12 x 8 inches.
Finnissy's Third String Quartet is the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it. The work incorporates birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, and the instruments gradually fade out at the end of the work, to leave only the sound of birds.
