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string quartet
Alternate Title
String Quartet No. 2
Year Authored (or revised)
Duration (min)
20
Movements
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Files & Media
Audio
rudhyar_crisis__overcoming_section1_excerpt.mp3
Audio file
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Sample Pages
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Detail
Description
"Crisis and Overcoming," a four-movement string quartet written in 1979 for the Kronos Quartet. Here Rudhyar writes instrumental conversations that sound fugal without actually repeating, and he closes with a little double homage to Ravel and Gershwin.
First Perfomance
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Recording
Kronos Quartet: CRI SD418, recorded on July 2 and 3, 1979, funded by an American Academy/Institute of Arts & Letters award; Reissue on NWCR-604
Text Language - Non English
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Text Source/Author
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Ensemble Type
string quartet (alone or + inst or voc)
Genre/Theme
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Instrument
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Purchase Options
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PDF Price
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$49.95 score with parts
Print Price
$49.95 score with parts
See: TWO STRING QUARTETS