Mass movements: James Clarke and the string quartet in 2020.

The article presents the discussion on James Clarke (b. 1957) adding a fifth and a sixth quartet to a collection with a ten-minute work commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and Ars Musica Brussels for the Arditti Quartet. Topics include demands made of the players especially the use of microton...

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Publicado en:Musical Times Vol. 162; no. 1957; pp. 13 - 34
Autor principal: WHITTALL, ARNOLD
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Winter2021
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Sumario:The article presents the discussion on James Clarke (b. 1957) adding a fifth and a sixth quartet to a collection with a ten-minute work commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and Ars Musica Brussels for the Arditti Quartet. Topics include demands made of the players especially the use of microtones being clearly more distant from that of earlier quartet music; and space determined by the conventionally tuned open strings of violin, viola and cello serving as a blank canvas.