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Article: For Marty.(Martin Boykan's Fourth String Quartet)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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MIDWAY THROUGH the initial presentation of ideas in the first movement of Martin Boykan's Fourth String Quartet, an octave line enters in the second violin and viola. After the Coriolanian imperative at the movement's opening, this moment unfolds in rich dramatic contrast, operatic in its sudden gathering of voices into a brief, yet sweeping line of Verdian cantilena. Remarkable, yes; and typical of a music which matches a singing linearity with a vigilant will to action. Take also the brocade of splinters and slivers from his Echoes of Petrarch, the second "song" of this instrumental work, the sonetto, "Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra." Intricacies of phrasing and ...
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