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Quartetto dell'arte
for string quartet
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Quartetto dell'arte is a five movement polytonal string quartet with an existential secret programme. In addition, it uses direct transcriptions of melodies from the following recordings:
Movement One: Musique et Musiciens du Monde - Biélorussie (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 double retrograde fugue using melodies by Verdi and Puccini, and the fourth movement juxtaposes melodies by Guillaume de Machault and Stephen Foster.
Dedication note
Dominique Denis
Contents note
I. Preludio (Scherzo-I)
II. Fuga Frammentaria
III. Gavotta Assurda (Scherzo-II)
IV. Adagietto Amoroso
V. Finale: Tarantella Tumultuosa (Scherzo-III)