Freakish Variations on a “Grand Cadence” Prototype in Haydn's String Quartets.

Notwithstanding the virtues of ensemble balance, decorum, and registral restraint with which the eighteenth-century string quartet is associated, Haydn's works in this medium sometimes call on the first violin to ascend to a musical stratosphere (above a2, an otherwise normal ceiling), often in conn...

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Published in:Journal of Musicological Research Vol. 28; no. 2-3; pp. 119 - 146
Main Author: Grave, Floyd
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2009
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