Download or read book The Art of String Quartet Playing written by Herter Norton, M. D. (Mary Dows) and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1966 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Full of meat, of precepts, explanations, advice; all of singular soundness and practicability, lucidly put, clearly brought to the musicians consciousness by the examples in the score." --New York Times

Download or read book The Art of String Quartet Playing written by Herter Norton and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of String Quartet Playing written by Mary Dows Herter Norton and published by London : V. Gollancz. This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The art of string quartet playing written by Mary Dows Herter Norton and published by London : V. Gollancz. This book was released on 1963 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of String Quartet Playing written by Herter Norton, M. D. (Mary Dows) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book String Quartet Playing The Art of String Quartet Playing Practice Technique and Interpretation With 132 Examples in Full Score and a Preface by Isaac Stern written by Mary Dows Herter NORTON and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book String Quartet Playing written by Mary Dows Herter Norton and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Progressive Method of String quartet Playing Elementary v 1 First violin and part v 2 Second violin and part v 3 Viola and part v 4 Violoncello and part written by Alfred Pochon and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

Download or read book The Four and the One written by David Rounds and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.

Download or read book String Quartets written by Mara Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on online links, databases, and references.

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Download or read book QUARTET PLAYING ART OF written by David Blum and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do four instrumentalists with strong individual tastes and temperaments manage to forge a distinctive approach to the music they play? This extraordinary book ushers readers into the workshop of one of the world's most accomplished string quartets. In rich and probing conversations with their longtime friend and musicologist and conductor David Blum, the members of the Guarneri String Quartet, both individually as a group, tell what it is like to play together.

Download or read book The Art of Quartet Playing written by David Blum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These intelligent conversations will be greeted enthusiastically not only by string players and serious musicians but also by advanced listeners. A musicologist and conductor, Blum knows from experience what crucial questions to ask about the medium and its practice. The members of the Guarneri Quartet discuss their backgrounds, training, cooperative efforts, problems with specific repertoire, and reactions to composers and conductors, as well as such detailed matters as bowing, intonation, vibrato, pizzicato, dynamics and the use of the left hand. Enhanced by hundreds of music examples and a detailed analysis of Beethoven's Opus 131, this is arguably the best book on the subject and one of the most important books on music issued in recent years. Performing Arts Book Club selection.

Download or read book String Quartet Playing a New Treatise on Chamber Music Its Technic and Interpretation written by Herter Norton, M. D. (Mary Dows) and published by New York : Carl Fischer. This book was released on 1925 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

Download or read book On Becoming a Conductor written by Frank L. Battisti and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Meredith Music Resource). This incredible book by one of the world's foremost authorities on conducting contains no conducting patterns, and no advice on how to conduct any piece. Instead, it focuses on the skills, knowledge and experiences needed to become and function as a conductor-teacher. "This text is a 'must have' for all serious musicians. It captures the legacy and wisdom of one of the most important conductors of our time. This is what can happen when a focused and inquisitive mind meets up with a uniquely creative imagination." Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Director of Wind Studies, College of Music University of North Texas (a href="http://youtu.be/JM6g4KBA4Fk" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on On Becoming a Conductor(/a)