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"Quattro", four in Italian. 4 instruments, 4 strings each, 4 movements of the piece, only 4 notes played: the 4 quarters of an octave.
This minimalist string quartet uses only four notes throughout the piece: C, E flat, F sharp and A. It fully exploits the richness of these four notes and of the string instruments’ technical and expressional capabilities.
In order to be able to have the open strings’ harmonics, the second violin should be tuned in F sharp –D-A-E and the viola in C-G-E flat-A.
"Quattro": quatre en italien. 4 instruments, 4 cordes pour chacun, 4 mouvements pour la pièce et seulement 4 notes jouées: les 4 quarts de l'octave.
Ce quatuor minimaliste pour cordes utilise seulement 4 notes: do, mi bémol, fa dièse et la et il met en valeur leur richesse en couleurs grâce aux possibilités techniques et expressives des instruments du quatuor.
Afin de pouvoir jouer des harmoniques sur des cordes à vide, la corde Sol du deuxième violon devrait être accordé en Fa dièse et la corde Ré de l'alto en Mi bémol.
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