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String quartet in Eb major - Haydn
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- 1GenreClassical
String quartet- 2 violins, viola and cello
Typically 4 movements
1781
Performed at courts - 2Forces and timbresTraditional string quartet- 2 violins, viola, cello
1st violin takes lead melodic role
Comfortable range
Some dynamic contrasts
Mainly Arco
Double stopping
Idiomatic string writing
Staccato
G.p.s - 3StructureExtended sonata rondo form
- 4TexturesClear textures
Little textual variety
Melody dominated homophony( 4 part and 3 part)
Frequent pedals, inverted tonic and dominant
Homophonic with melody and 3 part chords
Sustained acc.
Hetrophonic- sustained dominant pedal with 2 rhythmically independent upper parts in 10ths
Seemingly imitative texture
Inverted dominant pedal
6 part chords - 5Tonality and structurefree sonata rondo form
Extended ending
Motivically unified work with reprises
Monothematic
Major obsessive Eb tonality
Modulates to related keys only ( Ab, Fm, Bb)
Static tonality
Tonality reinforced by cadences and pedals
Only C section that modulates
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