Playing Good Music: The String Quartet

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational | Music

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Pictures the stringed instruments, instrumental techniques, and the unique character of music as played by a string quartet. Shows the fine Arts Quartet demonstrating various aspects of instrumental techniques and quartet playing. Reveals how the composer uses the four instruments and how leadership in carrying the basic theme passes from one player to another during the course of playing a composition.

Complete Record: Pictures the stringed instruments, instrumental techniques, and the unique character of music as played by a string quartet. Shows the fine Arts Quartet demonstrating various aspects of instrumental techniques and quartet playing. Reveals how the composer uses the four instruments and how leadership in carrying the basic theme passes from one player to another during the course of playing a composition., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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