String Quartet No.2
String Quartet - Sheet Music

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Cello
Viola
Violin
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String Quartet
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Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PO.PME06

Composed by David Farquhar. Set of Score and Parts. Composed 2003. Promethean Editions #PME06. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PME06).

ISBN 9780958242844.

In six inter-related movements, exhibiting throughout great concision and economy, devotees of the composer's style will find much to admire in the second of Farquhar's four string quartets.The composer writes: "The quartet is in six movements which are played without a break. The odd-numbered movements are quick, and are all based on the same material?an unsettled chord with B as the melody note, followed by a downward arpeggio flourish and a rising stepwise melody. The tempo in movements 3 and 5 gets progressively faster, and the atmosphere increasingly scherzando in character. The first two even-numbered movements (2 and 4) are slow expressive intermezzi; both feature an up-beat of three repeated Bs leading into chromatic lines. The final movement serves as an epilogue and resolution; the instruments are now muted and the three repeated Bs are now on the beat, while off-beat accompaniment figures provide a gentle swaying dance around them.".