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George Antheil (1900-1959)
Nationality:
American
Born: July 8, 1900, Trenton, NJ Died: February 12, 1959, New York (age 58)
String Quartet No. 2, For Sylvia Beach, with Love
(for 2 violins, viola and cello)
| 5:30 | I. | Larghetto | |
| 4:07 | II. | Lento - Fuga | |
| 5:26 | III. | Rondino scherzino. Allegro vivace | |
| 1:14 | IV. | Cadenza finale. Presto |
Duration: 18 minutes (approximately)
Composed:
1927 (age 26-27)
Revised:
1943 (age 42-43)
2 recordings,
9 videos
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3:07
Mondriaan String Quartet
I.
Larghetto
4:32
Mondriaan String Quartet
II.
Lento - Fuga
(part 1 of 2)
2:22
Mondriaan String Quartet
II.
Lento - Fuga
(part 2 of 2)
4:22
Mondriaan String Quartet
III.
Rondino scherzino. Allegro vivace
1:20
Mondriaan String Quartet
IV.
Cadenza finale. Presto
7:52
Del Sol Quartet
I.
Larghetto
4:07
Del Sol Quartet
II.
Lento - Fuga
6:30
Del Sol Quartet
III.
Rondino scherzino. Allegro vivace
1:08
Del Sol Quartet
IV.
Cadenza finale. Presto
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Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
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Nationality:
Swiss
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American
Born: July 24, 1880, Geneva Died: July 15, 1959, Portland, OR (age 79)
glossary
- allegro [I]—fast, lively tempo. From the Italian word for cheerful or gay.
- cadenza [I]—a solo, typically near the end of a movement, showing brilliant, virtuosic and improvisatory expression. An apotheosis. Related to "cadence" and "close". Usually found within concertos.
- 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
- finale [I], final [F]—The final movement, sometimes explicitly titled thus
- 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.
- larghetto—slow, but a bit faster than largo
- lento, lent [F], lentement [F], avec lenteur [F]—slow (tempo)
- presto—very fast, more so than allegro.
- rondino [I]—a little rondo
- scherzino [I], scherzetto—short scherzo
- vivace—brisk, lively tempo faster than allegro