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Matthew Davidson

Quartetto Dell'arte

Quartetto Dell'arte

string quartet

QUARTETTO DELL'ARTE is a five movement polytonal string quartet with an existential secret program. In addition, it uses direct transcriptions of melodies from the following recordings:
Movement One: Musique et Musiciens du Monde - Bielorussie (UNESCO); Kazakh Music Today (Topic Records Inc.)Movement Three: Belgique Ballades, etc. (OCORA-Radio France);Lituanie - Le pays des chansons (OCORA-Radio France)
The second movement is a pointillistic retrograde double fugue using melodies by Verdi and Puccini, and the fourth movement juxtaposes melodies of Machaut and Stephen Foster.

See attached PDF for extended program note/article.


Movements: I. Preludio (Scherzo-I), II. Fuga Frammentaria, III. Gavotta Assurda (Scherzo-II), IV. Adagietto Amoroso, V. FINALE: Tarantella Tumultuosa (Scherzo-III)

Authored (or revised): 2012

Published: 2012

Duration (minutes): 25 minutes

Book format: Score + 4 parts


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