245 04 |a The Cambridge companion to the string quartet / |c edited by Robin Stowell.

260 __ |a Cambridge, UK ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2003.

505 00 |g Pt. I. |t Social changes and organological developments -- |g 1. |t The string quartet and society / |r Christina Bashford -- |g 2. |t Developments in instruments, bows and accessories / |r Robin Stowell -- |g Pt. II. |t Celebrated ensembles -- |g 3. |t From chamber to concert hall / |r Tully Potter -- |g 4. |t The concert explosion and the age of recording / |r Tully Potter -- |g Pt. III. |t Playing string quartets -- |g 5. |t Playing quartets: a view from the inside / |r David Waterman -- |g 6. |t Historical awareness in quartet performance / |r Simon Standage -- |g 7. |t Extending the technical and expressive frontiers / |r Robin Stowell -- |g Pt. IV. |t The string quartet repertory -- |g 8. |t The origins of the quartet / |r David Wyn Jones -- |g 9. |t Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries / |r W. Dean Sutcliffe -- |g 10. |t Beethoven and the Viennese legacy / |r David Wyn Jones -- |g 11. |t The Austro-Germanic quartet tradition in the nineteenth century / |r Stephen E. Hefling -- |g 12. |t Traditional and progressive nineteenth-century trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and America / |r Robin Stowell -- |g 13. |t Nineteenth-century national traditions and the string quartet / |r Jan Smaczny -- |g 14. |t The string quartet in the twentieth century / |r Kenneth Gloag -- |g 15. |t The string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles / |r Colin Lawson.