String Quartet No. 3 (Piston)

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String Quartet No. 3 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1947.

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History

Piston's third string quartet was commissioned by Harvard University and first performed by the Walden String Quartet on May 1, 1947. It is dedicated to Diran Alexanian. [1]

Analysis

The quartet is in three movements:

  1. Allegro
  2. Lento
  3. Allegro

Both of the outer movements are in sonata-allegro form, and are in F minor. The central Lento movement is a calm theme and variations in C minor. [2] However, the first movement actually begins in A♭ major/minor, only gradually settling into F minor at the end, and the variation movement spends a lot of its time in the parallel major (the dominant of F minor). However, Piston's characteristic flexibility of tonality and thickly chromatic harmony makes it simplest to omit key signatures. [3]

Discography

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References

  1. ↑ Pollack 1982, 102.
  2. ↑ Pollack 1982, 102–103.
  3. ↑ DeVoto 1988.

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