String Quartet no. 1: La Vice

This string quartet has been played by my friends (thanks!).

There are three parts:

1) Andante: a large introduction
2) Largo: trying to make a scenery here
3) Allegro (unfinished): using many kwints. It has a mid section, but is supposed to be repeated. They were too lazy to repeat the beginning till "fine"...


Harmony wise I tried to be very conservative going into romanticism: Rebecca Clarke, Schoenberg's string quartet, Saga Frontier I. I realized that string players don't like to play too pianistically. I'm a pianist, so... I didn't really write for strings. Also, two string players playing in the same frequency range gives awkward sound.

Note: If you know Rebecca Clarke's viola sonata you'll probably hear the motif: la si do mi, which is used plenty in the first two sections, especially the first section - ending.

Feel free to comment, I don't want to publish the score. If it's a requirement, then go on and place it in chamber music.

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Hi Katchum!

First of all, I really need to ask you why such a persistance against providing a score? I'm quite curious to know, since other composers, who are pros also, provide scores without much hesitation, unless the scores are published, in which case there's a very strong reason why they shouldn't be online!

I liked the piece rather a lot, found the Am motif successfully used. The recording is quite bad, I don't know the circumstances, but I don't think it's easily saved through digital plug-ins (you could remove the noise (hissing) however). Without score and with such a bad recording, I'm sorry to say, it's difficult to make any decent feedback and provide valid comments really. It's hard to make out what's going on!

I did like the introduction and the ending more than the middle part. Language felt a tiny bit stagnant and static, but it's a stylistic issue, more than anything else I find, so... Tempo and dynamics in the recording are flat, I'm sorry to say as well. Sorry also for returning to the quality of the recording, but there's nothing else to talk about, since you've not given us the score.