The seven string quartets of Grazyna Bacewicz in a way represent a continuation of the six of Bartók, beginning with the student String Quartet No. 1 of 1939 that uses folk rhythms in a Bartókian way. Bacewicz's style encompassed the major compositional movements of the middle 20th century, but she had a distinctively conservative way of applying them: most of the individual movements reflect traditional forms, and the quartets as a whole are all in three or four movements in something like the usual pattern, with formally ...
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The seven string quartets of Grazyna Bacewicz in a way represent a continuation of the six of Bartók, beginning with the student String Quartet No. 1 of 1939 that uses folk rhythms in a Bartókian way. Bacewicz's style encompassed the major compositional movements of the middle 20th century, but she had a distinctively conservative way of applying them: most of the individual movements reflect traditional forms, and the quartets as a whole are all in three or four movements in something like the usual pattern, with formally variegated opening, some kind of slow movement, and upbeat, jocular finales. This is true even in the partially serialist String Quartet No. 6 of 1960, a work that Bacewicz herself testified to having trouble with, and the dissonant String Quartet No. 7 of 1965, where the structural burden is borne by unusual instrumental techniques. Perhaps the most satisfying piece of the bunch in the String Quartet No. 3 of 1947, an enthusiastic work in which highly polyphonic structure seems to...
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