Bryars, Gavin - String Quartet No. 1

Series	Music Of Our Time
Pages	25
Publication Date	12 February 1998
Grade of Difficulty	difficult
ISMN	9790220118708 (M220118708)

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String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol'), was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high register, most notably towards the end where each instrument de-tunes a pair of strings and thereafter plays only in harmonics, both natural and artificial.'