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...
| Published in: | Journal of Musicological Research Vol. 28; no. 2-3; pp. 119 - 146 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2009
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