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[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]]'s '''String Quartet''' (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest [[modernism (music)|modernist]] works of the genre".<ref name="Hisama">Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). ''Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon'', p.4. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-64030-X}}.</ref> The [[musical composition|composition]] is in four untitled movements. |
[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]]'s '''String Quartet''' (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest [[modernism (music)|modernist]] works of the genre".<ref name="Hisama">Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). ''Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon'', p.4. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-64030-X}}.</ref> The [[musical composition|composition]] is in four untitled movements. |
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==Third movement== |
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According to Crawford's analysis (requested by [[Edgard Varèse]]), as well as other analyses, the third movement is a [[sound mass]] composition in which a single composite melody line consists of successive tones from the different instruments.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} This is accomplished through the equality of the instruments, indicated by their cramped register and the frequent vertical [[voice crossing|crossing]] of their parts, legato bowing (with dotted slurs indicating preferably inaudible bow changes), and the gradual crescendos and decrescendos which are staggered among the instruments, meaning that one instrument is at its loudest while another is at its quietest. Each voice climbs over the top of the others as they move to the movement's highest dynamics, register, and climax, at which point they "break apart" or split into a four octave range created from triple-stops on all instruments.<ref name="Hisama"/>{{Failed verification|date=November 2016}}<!--While Hisama says several things about the Quartet on p. 4, the third movement described at all.--> |
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==Fourth movement== |
==Fourth movement== |
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Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre".[1] The composition is in four untitled movements.
Fourth movement
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Sources
- ^ Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon, p.4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64030-X.