Robin Stowell (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Herausgeber: Cross, Jonathan; Stowell, Robin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the string quartet, the music and its interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9780521801942
• ISBN-10: 052180194X
• Artikelnr.: 29337949

Autorenporträt

Robin Stowell is Professor and Head of Music at the University of Wales College of Cardiff and a professional violinist who has written extensively on stringed instruments and performance. He is author of Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1985), Beethoven: Violin Concerto (1998) and The Early Violin and Viola (2001), editor of Performing Beethoven (1994), The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (1992), The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (1999) and co-author of The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction (1999), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Social Changes and Organological Developments: 1. The string
quartet and society Christina Bashford; 2. Developments in instruments,
bows and accessories Robin Stowell; Part II. Celebrated Ensembles: 3. From
chamber to concert hall Tully Potter; 4. The concert explosion and the age
of recording Tully Potter; Part III. Playing String Quartets: 5. Playing
quartets: a view from the inside David Waterman; 6. Historical awareness in
quartet performance Simon Standage; 7. Extending the technical and
expressive frontiers Robin Stowell; Part IV. The String Quartet Repertory:
8. The origins of the quartet David Wyn Jones; 9. The Classical style:
Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries W. Dean Sutcliffe; 10. Beethoven and
the Viennese legacy David Wyn Jones; 11. The Austro-Germanic quartet
tradition in the nineteenth century Stephen E. Hefling; 12. Traditional and
progressive nineteenth-century trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and
America Robin Stowell; 13. Nineteenth-century national traditions and the
string quartet Jan Smaczny; 14. The string quartet in the twentieth century
Kenneth Gloag; 15. The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles
Colin Lawson.