The String Quartet, 1750–1797

Four Types of Musical Conversation

Mara Parker

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Ashgate Publishing Limited
13 September 2002

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Chamber ensembles; String instruments

"Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the relationships between the four instruments in different works. Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns: the ""lecture"", the ""polite conversation"", the ""debate"", and the ""conversation"". In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic choices, location, intended performers and intended audience. Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string quartet in the latter half of the 18th century was a complex genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as circumstances and their own creative impulses required."

By: Mara Parker
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9781840146820
ISBN 10: 1840146826
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 13 September 2002
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mara Parker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and String Performance at Widener University in Chester, PA. In addition to her work on the eighteenth-century string quartet, her research interests include chamber music of all types, cello technique and performers, and early nineteenth-century American music. A founding member of the Del Mar String Quartet and the CSU Faculty Trio, she regularly performs in chamber and solo recitals.

Reviews for The String Quartet, 1750–1797: Four Types of Musical Conversation

'This book provokes a good deal of thought and is full of excellent musical examples... If you are a performer, professional or amateur, this book will be worth investigating.' The Strad '... a bold attempt to challenge a commonplace of the so-called 'Classical style'...' Early Music '[Mara Parker] has exposed complexities that will repay the further explorations of quartet scholars and performers.' Notes 'Parker's [...] quartet sample - over 650 works by sixty-two composers - is impressive, since the majority of the works under scrutiny are not available in reliable modern editions. She is also to be commended for including lengthy music examples; on several occasions entire quartet movements are reproduced... Her diligence in procuring and transcribing large quantities of hitherto obscure eighteenth-century quartets is laudable...' Eighteenth-Century Music