Poul Ruders
Motet
String Quartet No. 3
Poul Ruders
Motet
String Quartet No. 3
- Instrumentation String Quartet
- Composer Poul Ruders
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Study Score
- Publisher Edition Wilhelm Hansen
- Order no. WH30748
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Description:
Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets, a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory, introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. MOTET is a sober, cool treatise on rhythm and statics, depicted in a Gothic, crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys' choir, monks' processions, and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today. Poul Ruders, 1979