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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2004, held in Padova, Italy, in October 2004.The 28 revised fu

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This survey of the string quartet by ten chamber music specialists focuses on four main areas: social and musical background to the genre's development; celebrated ensembles and their significance; an

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Lawrence (author of many books on music and music education) provides a database of original works written for the standard string quartet during the 20th century. Where a composer has added other com

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The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994. Titles: Venezia Notturno * Das klinget s

Dr. Anne Witt has developed an effective tool to encourage the mastery of common rhythms. Based on Igor Hudadoff's A Rhythm a Day, Witt's method targets the specific rhythmic problems facing string pl

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Exciting piece by Tan Dun who is a prize winning composer from Hunan China. This piece tries to draw on Chinese colors and techniques of the Peking Opera.

Following his successful Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Horne now presents a work for the string music of Black composers. Organized alphabetically by composer, each entry provides information on

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Fullest, clearest instruction on string figures from wide variety of cultures around the world: Eskimo, Navajo, Lapp, Europe, many others. Create such imaginative figures as a cat's cradle, a moving

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