The Ill Tempered String Quartet: A Vademecum for the Amateur Musician
Author:   Lester Chafetz
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780786421510


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   24 January 2005
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Lester Chafetz
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.231kg
ISBN:  

9780786421510


ISBN 10:   0786421517
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   24 January 2005
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword     Introduction     1. How Many Players in a String Quartet?     2. The Home Salon     3. By Any Other Name Would Smell...     4. Staying in Shape     5. Of Bellies and Bows     6. Playing Second Fiddle     7. The Sociopathology of the String Quartet     8. Ripping the Rembrandt     9. Fiddling with Strangers     10. Some Informative Reading     11. Composers and Decomposers     12. Notes on the Literature     13. Expansion and Contraction     14. The High-Strung Amateur String Quartet Player     Appendix: The Interpretation of Musical Terms     Index    

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Clear, direct and candid...practical...balanced


absolutely delightful...a complete guide to the joys and pitfalls of participating in an amateur string quartet --<i>Wilson Library Bulletin</i>; clear, direct and candid...practical...balanced --<i>The Strad.</i>


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Lester Chafetz, professor emeritus of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, currently lives in Leawood, Kansas.

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