The String Quartets of Debussy and Ravel - Marianne Wheeldon
Sibelius's "Internal Voices": Structure and Process in the Quartet
in D Minor (Voces Intimae), Op. 56 - Joseph C. Kraus
The Pitch Language of the Bartók Quartets - Joseph N. Straus
The String Quartet in the Music of Paul Hindemith - David
Neumeyer
Comprehensibility, Variation, and the String Quartet Tradition: The
Second Movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, Op. 30 -
Matthew R. Shaftel
Process in the String Quartets of Alban Berg - David Headlam
Webern's Music for String Quartet - David Clampitt
Villa-Lobos's String Quartets - Eero Tarasti
Appropriate Tradition: The String Quartets of Sergei Prokofiev,
Opp. 50 and 92 - Neil Minturn
In November 2010 Intimate Voices won the Society for Music Theory's
Citation of Special Merit. This citation is awarded to 'editions,
translations, reference works, or edited volumes of extraordinary
value to the discipline.' The citation states: '[Intimate Voices]
examines the string quartets of composers from Claude Debussy
through Shulamit Ran, and including those of Berg, Bartok,
Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Ligeti, Cage, Britten, Carter, Berio, and
others. The twenty different contributing authors provide multiple
analytical voices, resulting in a contrapuntal conversation much
like the string quartet medium under review.
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Superb. . . . A unified and eminently readable narrative. . . . The
most thorough, authoritative and comprehensive study of modern
chamber music. . . . Standards of production are up to the
publisher's usual high standards. . . . Each contributor skilfully,
sensitively and intelligently . . . sets the music s/he is
considering in the widest historical and musical context. . . .
Useful reading for players as well as listeners, composers and
others. CLASSICALNET [Mark Sealey] Read the complete review at
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A magnificent sweep through many key works in twentieth-century
musical history.
*JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSIC IN IRELAND*
Intimate Voices takes us on a kaleidoscopic ride through a century
of string quartets. Players, historians, and theorists alike will
appreciate the deeply musical commitment of twenty major writers
exploring this medium, from Debussy to modern American, with
composers such as Bartók and Scelsi in the same optic, through
evidence-based music analysis in a social context. It is a
Herculean project, superbly executed by editor Evan Jones. -,
professor of music theory, Eastman School of Music
*Jonathan Dunsby*
A broad collection of serious essays about music in a medium that
is very much alive. . . . There is something here for everyone, not
just specialists in musical analysis. . . . It is also good that
the work of several composers whose quartets are not often
heard-Carter's, Scelsi's, Powell's, and Ran's-are brought to our
attention. . . . Each [essay] has something interesting to say
about the medium and the music and how we can talk about it.
*FANFARE*
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