| The Art of Quartet Playing Revised Edition Contributor(s): Blum, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801494567 ISBN-13: 9780801494567 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1987 Annotation: How do four instrumentalists with strong individual tastes and temperaments manage to forge a distinctive approach to the music they play? This extraordinary book ushers readers into the workshop of one of the world's most accomplished string quartets. In rich and probing conversations with their longtime friend and musicologist and conductor David Blum, the members of the Guarneri String Quartet, both individually as a group, tell what it is like to play together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Musical Instruments - Strings - Music | Genres & Styles - Chamber - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 785.704 |
| LCCN: 86047967 |
| Series: Cornell Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.06" W x 9.2" (0.86 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blum, David: - David Blum founded New York's Esterhazy Orchestra and l'Orchestre Symphonique Genevois in Geneva, Switzerland. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, he wrote The Art of Quartet Playing, also from Cornell, and Casals and the Art of Interpretation. |