The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players and of listeners in the concert hall and at home. Two volume set: Modern composers as diverse as Bela Bartok, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summary Bernard) Mel Powell (Jeffrey Perry) Shulamit Ran (Robert W. Bernstein) Babbitt (Andrew Mead) Carter (Jonathan W. Shaftel) Berg (Dave Headlam) Webern (David Clampitt) Villa-Lobos (Eero Tarasti) Prokofiev (Neil Minturn) Volume 2: Shostakovich (Patrick McCreless) Britten (Christopher Mark) Ligeti (Jane Piper Clendinning) Berio (Richard Hermann) Xenakis (Evan Jones) Scelsi (Eric Drott) Cage (David W. Straus) Hindemith (David Neumeyer) Schoenberg (Matthew R. Contents and authors Volume 1: Debussy and Ravel (Marianne Wheeldon) Sibelius (Joseph Kraus) Bartok (Joseph N. Edited by Evan Jones, associate professor of music theory, Florida State University College of Music. Its two volumes-available separately or together-comprise an indispensable guide to amateur and professional chamber musicians, scholars, students, and anyone seeking a deeper acquaintance with the great achievements of twentieth-century music. Intimate Voices, organized in rough chronological order, offers the observations and intuitions of twenty leading authorities on quartets by twenty-one composers from eleven countries. Yet, until now, no book has addressed the language of these remarkable works, their interactions with the masterpieces of Beethoven and others, and their new approaches to musical expression. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players-and of listeners in the concert hall and at home. Modern composers as diverse as Bela Bartok, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The string quartets of Shulamit Ran / Robert W.Mel Powell and the string quartet / Jeffrey Perry.
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