String Quartet
String Quartet - Sheet Music

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SKU: PO.PME09S

Composed by John Cousins. Full score. Promethean Editions #PME09S. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PME09S).

ISBN 9780958242899.

Cousins String Quartet is concerned with the investigation of two qualities inherent in the medium of the string quartet: the sonorous potential of the instruments when they are played as one, and the melodic possibilities of each individual instrument. The structure could be likened to a journey across a tornado, each ring of the spiral generating greater and greater contrapuntal energy, interspersed with areas of relative homophonic calm, until the perfectly still centre of the storm is reached; only to be followed by further troughs and peaks as the opposite side of the spiral is crossed.