Composing the modern subject : four string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich / by Reichardt, Sarah Jane, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Shostakovich and the modern subject -- The end that is no end : cadences and closure in the sixth String quartet, op. 101 (1956) -- The space between : codas, death and the seventh String quartet, op. 108 (1960) -- Musical hauntings : the ritual of conjuration in Shostakovich's eighth String quartet, op. 110 (1960) -- The indivisible remainder : novelization in the ninth String quartet, op. 117 (1964).…”

The cold dancer : contemporary string quartets from Scotland /

Table of Contents: “…String Quartet No. 4 (The Cold Dancer) / Kenneth Dempster (12:23) -- The Great Divorce / James Clapperton (16:03) -- String Quartet: Serene - Attacca / Judith Weir (5:38) -- String Quartet: Con Moto - Attacca / Judith Weir (5:06) -- String Quartet: Presto / Judith Weir (2:40) -- String Quartet No. 3: Lento/Allegro - Andante, Un Poco Lento (Viola Solo) - Allegro / William Sweeney (9:12) -- String Quartet No. 3: Andante/Più Lento (Viola Solo) - Lento/Allegro - Con Moto / William Sweeney (10:13) -- String Quartet No. 3: Tempo Rubato - Vivace - Molt Rubato Espressivo (Cello Solo) - Vivace / William Sweeney (17:09).…”
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Arditti quartet : Mexico.

Table of Contents: “…De jaque, sal, gala y luna : for solo violin / Juan Felipe Waller (7:39) -- String quartet no. 1 / Hebert Vázquez (18:23) -- Ramas : for amplified solo violin / Germán Romero (14:24) -- Uno : for string quartet / Iván Naranjo (13:40) -- Espasmo fulgor : for violin & electronics / Rogelio Sosa (10:21) -- Uy u'tan : for string quartet / Hilda Paredes (14:46).…”
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Jan van Vlijmen, Matthijs Vermeulen, Louis Andriessen.

Subjects: “…String quartets.…”
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Norton recorded anthology of western music. classic to modern.

Table of Contents: “…/ Charles Ives -- Violin sonata: Second movement / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Appalachian spring: excerpt including Variations on "'Tis the gift to be simple" / Aaron Copland -- Afro-American symphony: Third movement / William Grant Still -- String quartet no. 2: Introduction and allegro fantastico / Elliott Carter -- Black angels, thirteen images from the dark land, for electric string quartet: Images 4 to 9 / George Crumb -- Philomel: Section I / Milton Babbitt -- Seven studies on themes of Paul Klee: No. 3: Kleiner blau Teufel ; No. 5: Arabische Stadt / Gunther Schuller -- Phrygian gates / John Adams -- Concerto grosso 1985: Fourth and fifth movements / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.…”

Islam : There is no God but God / Orthodox Christianity : The Rumanian solution / Judaism : The chosen people

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Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /

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Music of the twentieth century : an anthology /

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Music in Vienna : 1700, 1800, 1900 / by Wyn Jones, David

Table of Contents: “…Behind closed doors : piano, song and string quartet ;…”
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Music in Vienna : 1700, 1800, 1900 / by Wyn Jones, David

Table of Contents: “…Behind closed doors : piano, song and string quartet ;…”
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Reconceiving structure in contemporary music : new tools in music theory and analysis / by Lochhead, Judith Irene

Table of Contents: “…-- Music analysis--producing knowledge -- Reconceiving structure : investigating, mapping, speculating -- Technê of radiance : Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (1996) -- Difference and identity : Sofia Gubaidulina's Second string quartet (1987) -- Incessance of memory : Stacy Garrop's String quartet no.2, Demons and angels (2004-05) -- Spiral morphing : emergence, saturation, and uncoiling in Anna Clyne's Choke (2004).…”

Monday or Tuesday and other short stories / by Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Table of Contents: “…Haunted house -- Society -- Monday or Tuesday -- Unwritten novel -- String quartet -- Blue & green -- Kew Gardens -- Mark on the wall.…”
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Wolfgang Rihm, a chiffre : the 1980s and beyond / by Knockaert, Yves

Table of Contents: “…Parameter characteristics -- 10. String quartet in the 1980s : string quartets nos. 5-8 -- 11. …”
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The music of Leos Janáček : motive, rhythm, structure / by Skoumal, Zdenek

Table of Contents: “…Janáček's motives -- Musical elements -- Nineteenth-century foundation -- Folk studies -- Jenůfa -- Middle-period works -- The cunning little vixen -- The wandering madman -- First string quartet : first movement -- Three rhythmic studies.…”
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The music of Leos Janáček : motive, rhythm, structure / by Skoumal, Zdenek

Table of Contents: “…Janáček's motives -- Musical elements -- Nineteenth-century foundation -- Folk studies -- Jenůfa -- Middle-period works -- The cunning little vixen -- The wandering madman -- First String Quartet : first movement -- Three rhythmic studies.…”
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Twentieth-century chamber music / by McCalla, James, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…A historical introduction -- Twentieth-century chamber music: an introduction -- Music and literature I: program music -- Music and literature II: vocal chamber music -- New ensembles, new works -- The modern sonata -- The string quartet.…”
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Musicians with a mission : keeping the classical tradition alive / by Pincus, Andrew L., 1930-

Table of Contents: “…-- Robert Spano: turning Babel into buzz -- The Juilliard String Quartet: long live the revolution -- Midori: growing flowers in the desert.…”

Anthology of twentieth-century music /

Table of Contents: “…Mikrokosmos, no. 46, 126, 148 ; Forty-four violin duets, no. 33: song of the harvest ; Sixth quartet, first movement / Béla Bartók -- Four songs, op. 2, no. 3-4 ; Wozzeck: Marie's lullaby / Alban Berg -- Eight etudes and fantasy for woodwind quartet, etude no. 7, Fantasy (excerpt) / Elliott Carter -- Appalachian spring (excerpt) / Aaron Copland -- Antiphony IV / Kenneth Gaburo -- String quartet, op. 22, second movement (excerpt) ; Ludus tonalis: Interlude and Fugue in A / Paul Hindemith -- Second sonata for violin and piano, third movement: the revival / Charles Ives -- Divertimento for band, sixth movement: March / Vincent Persichetti -- Filigree setting for string quartet (excerpt) / Mel Powell -- Six short pieces for piano, op. 19, no. 2 ; Suite for piano, op. 25: Gavotte, Musete ; Variations for orchestra, op. 31: introduction, theme, variation I / Arnold Schönberg -- Seven studies on themes of Paul Klee, III: little blue devil / Gunther Schuller -- Petroushka: Russian dance ; L'Histoire du soldat: the soldier's march, great chorale, triumphal march of the devil ; In Memorian Dylan Thomas, dirge-canons (prelude) ; Canticum sacrum, II: surge, aquilo / Igor Stravinsky -- Six pieces for orchestra, op. 6, no. 1 ; Cantata, op. 29, first movement / Anton Webern.…”

The Kaleidoscope of women's sounds in music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries / by Koay, Kheng K.

Table of Contents: “…Women composers and modern society -- Creativity, reception to and background of the composers -- Bold sound colors and space: Sofia Gubaidulina, Quaternion ; Joan Tower, String quartet no. 2, In memory -- Straddling classical and American vernacular idioms: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Millennium fantasy ; Libby Larsen, Four on the floor -- The cross-over and national influences: Chen Yi, Ba Yin ; Judith Weir, Distance and enchantment.…”
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The aesthetics of survival : a composer's view of twentieth-century music / by Rochberg, George

Table of Contents: “…The avant-garde and the aesthetics of survival (1969) -- Reflections on the renewal of music (1972) -- On the third string quartet (1974).…”
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