The Cambridge companion to the string quartet
By: edited by Robin Stowell.
Contributors: Stowell, Robin.
Series: Cambridge companions to music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: String quartet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: The string quartet and society / Christina Bashford; title: Developments in instruments, bows and accessories / Robin Stowell; title: From chamber to concert hall ; The concert explosion and the age of recording / Tully Potter; title: Playing quartets : a view from the inside / David Waterman; title: Historical awareness in quartet performance / Simon Standage; title: Extending the technical and expressive frontiers / Robin Stowell; title: The origins of the quartet / David Wyn Jones; title: Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries / W. Dean Sutcliffe; title: Beethoven and the Viennese legacy / David Wyn Jones; title: The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century / Stephen E. Hefling; title: Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends : France, Italy, Great Britain and America / Robin Stowell; title: Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet / Jan Smaczny; title: The string quartet in the twentieth century / Kenneth Gloag; title: The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles / Colin Lawson.