The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and ScoringDesigned as a companion volume to the author's earlier study, The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned Trout Quintet, but also in works of much brilliance by Dussek, Hummel, Weber, and others in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like role. Subsequently, Schumann's epoch-making quintet of 1842 initiated a broadly "symphonic" style, with large-scale structures and closely integrated textures, which was taken up by many later composers, including Brahms, Dvorak, Cesar Franck, Faure, and Elgar. The author also examines the numerous changes in the nature of the genres which have occurred in recent times, and gives special consideration to a number of works by leading twentieth-century composers, in which "mixed" media are formed by combining wind instruments with the normal strings-and-piano ensembles. |
Contents
The Origins to 1800 I | 1 |
The Early Romantics | 25 |
CrossCurrents | 53 |
The Ascendancy of Brahms | 84 |
Transition and Change | 113 |
The Relationship of Style to Scoring | 142 |
Mixed Ensembles | 159 |
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The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring Basil Smallman No preview available - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
3rd movement accompaniment Adagio Allegro Andante arpeggio basic Beethoven Brahms Brahms's cello César Franck chamber music chordal chords clarinet climax coda colour composer composer's composition concerto contrapuntal contrast contributions countertheme cresc development section dominant double bass Dvořák earlier effective ensemble episode example exposition F sharp Fauré figure finale flat major flute Franck fugal fugue G major G minor Gabriel Fauré harmony Hummel idea initially instruments keyboard last movement later main theme manner melodic ment minor Piano molto motif Mozart octaves opening theme original ostinato passage patterns phrase pianissimo pianist Piano Quintet Piano Trio pitch pizzicato principal theme quaver recall recapitulation repeated rhythmic rhythms rondo Scherzo Schubert Schumann scoring second movement second subject group second violin semiquavers Septet sharp minor slow movement solo sonata String Quartet structure style submediant Symphony texture thematic third movement tonality tonic triplet unusual variations viola writing