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String Quartet in Four Parts is a string quartet by John Cage, composed in 1950. It is one of the last works Cage wrote that is not entirely indeterminate . Like Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946–48) and the ballet The Seasons (1947), this work explores ideas from Indian philosophy .
A study of the manuscript sources, as published by László Somfai [2] finds that Bartók originally intended the quartet to have four movements, not five.. This work, like Bartók String Quartet No. 5, and several other pieces by Bartók, exhibits an arch form — the first movement is thematically related to the last, and the second to the fourth, with the third movement standing alone.
As the politics of law and order are poised to determine the future of America, John Cage's 1950 String Quartet in Four Parts stands as music of the moment.
The String Quartet: A History. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27383-9. Griffiths, Paul: "String Quartet: §§5–9", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Scholes, Percy A. (1938). The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press.
[3] "in which four of the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale are tuned a quarter tone flat" [4]...until' version 7 for guitar (1980). [5] Hans Barth Concerto for Quarter Tone Piano and Quarter Tone Strings (1930) [6] Béla Bartók. String Quartet No. 6; the third movement Burletta contains quarter-tone tuning used for parodistic effect. [7]
Antonín Dvořák composed String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, B. 19 at some stage in the years 1869 and 1870. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was one of three (together with the quartets numbers 2 , and 3 ) which Dvořák later believed he had destroyed after he had disposed of the scores.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4, between 1798 and 1800 in Vienna and published in 1801. The Op. 18 collection is dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz .
F. 4, Frontier (based on music from Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet) (1969?) F. 9 , A Royal Offering (based on A Colour Symphony ) (1977) Incidental Music