Tuesday, October 23, 2007


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Béla Bartók's 6th string quartet is a massive flow of all things melody. I think that it's the last piece he wrote in Hungary. Each movement opens with a slow melody marked mestomesto, or sadly. In the fourth movement, the material, with reminiscences of the first movement material, takes up the entire movement. His mother's death influenced the final movement, which I could understand. It resembles a tone poem, if you ask me.

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