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The String Quartet, 1750-1797: Four Types of Musical Conversation.(Book Review)
By Mara Parker. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. [xiii, 315 p. ISBN 1-84014-682-6. $74.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
In The String Quartet, 1750-1797, Mara Parker develops a new means by which to examine and assess the vast repertoire of string quartets composed from the middle of the eighteenth century up to but not including the works of Beethoven. Her sample data, an impressively extensive collection of over 650 works by numerous composers of various nationalities, leads her to suggest that four kinds of musical discourse characterize the movement types in these quartets: the lecture, the polite ...
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