Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
Nationality:
American
Born: December 6, 1920 Died: December 5, 2012 (age 92)
Chromatic Fantasy for String Quartet
(for 2 violins, viola and cello)
| 6:01 | I. | Allegro molto | |
| 5:48 | II. | Chorale | |
| 3:56 | III. | Fugue | |
| 13:25 | IV. | Chaconne |
Duration: 29 minutes (approximately)
Composed:
1996 (age 75-76)
1 recording,
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6:01
Brodsky Quartet
I.
Allegro molto
5:48
Brodsky Quartet
II.
Chorale
3:56
Brodsky Quartet
III.
Fugue
13:25
Brodsky Quartet
IV.
Chaconne
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Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Teacher
Nationality:
French
Born: September 4, 1892, Marseilles Died: June 22, 1974, Geneva (age 81)
glossary
- allegro [I]—fast, lively tempo. From the Italian word for cheerful or gay.
- chaconne, ciaconna [I], ciacona, chiacona, ciaccona, chacony—a Baroque term for a musical form comprising a series of variations over an unchanging short theme or ground base. chaconne and passacaglia are closely related if not indistinguishablewiki
- chamber music, Kammermusik [G], musique de chambre [F], musica da camera [I], musica cameralis [L]—"Classical Music" for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. explore
- chorale, choral—hymn; sacred tune; commonly, a hymn from the Protestant church
- fantasia, fantasy, fantazy, fantazia, phantasy, phantasie, fancy, fantasie [G], fantaisie [F] —generally, a piece of music favoring a free flight of expression over strict adherence to formal rules; suggesting an improvisational character. However, there are at least two more specific historical meanings: 1) the fantasia/fantasie/fancy of English Renaissance viol consort music and 2) Cobbett's Phantasie, an early 20th century form of single-movement chamber music inspired by the Renaissance fancy with the goal of stimulating new English chamber or "consort" music.
- fugue, fuga, fuge [G], fuguette, fugen [G,pl]—a contrapuntal procedure (form) involving a musical subject (theme) that is successively imitated by multiple overlapping voices. There is a vast canon of rules (concepts) for creating elaborate and diverse fugues with an infinite variety of character based on fairly specific parameters. Fugues (or partial fugato) are found throughout classical music from the late Renaissance to the present.
- molto [It]—very much
- quartet, quatuor [F], quartett [G], quartetto [I], cuarteto [S]—ensemble or work for four players the most important examples being the string quartet and the piano quartet
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string quartet, Streichquartett [G], quatuor à cordes [F], quartetto d'archi [I], quartetto di cordi [I], cuarteto de cuerda [S]—an ensemble as well as music written for that ensemble comprising 2 violins, viola and cello. This is one of the essential genres / forms / ensembles of chamber music and arguably a critical "core" of "classical" music.
Explore the string quartet.