Cool! Actually, had forgotten for a while that I posted this thread and did repost the quartet in a thread that got some views...in 38 years, and about five attempts, my closest thing to a string quartet! The bowings, dynamics, and expression markings are in the paper manuscript. This was written in a garage smoking a pipe, with a cd box set of Mozart quartets and the score at hand.
I can see why some might not like the sudden transitions, but I guess I just wanted that first movement to be peripatetic. The work could be considered overscored! I'm not revising it 16 years later. I don't mind if the quad chords are rolled and rough!
Posted in the other thread for this piece:
I have a kind of personal "program" for the first and second movements, that I came up with long after the quartet was written! The first movement is a conversation between me and Dmitri Shostakovich, with Beethoven and Brahms politely listening, and Antonin Dvorak keeps bursting in the door drunk, whistling his latest theme!
The second movement, Courante and Fugue, is even funnier: the Courante sounds to me like the barrel organ is out of tune at the carnival, and the fugue sounds as if Beethoven, whilst sketching out a fugal section in his late quartets, was even drunker than usual...