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Index
Coverpage
The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Cambridge Companions to Music
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on the contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on pitch
Part I • Social changes and organological developments
1 The string quartet and society
2 Developments in instruments, bows and accessories
Part II • Celebrated ensembles
3 From chamber to concert hall
4 The concert explosion and the age of recording
Part III • Playing string quartets
5 Playing quartets: a view from the inside
6 Historical awareness in quartet performance
7 Extending the technical and expressive frontiers
Part IV • The string quartet repertory
8 The origins of the quartet
9 Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries
10 Beethoven and the Viennese legacy
11 The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century
12 Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and America
13 Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet
14 The string quartet in the twentieth century
15 The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles
Notes
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