String Quartet No. 2 Critical Edition 弦乐四重奏

艾夫斯写道，在作品中，表演者 "交谈、讨论、争论（用 RE 'politick'）、争吵、握手、闭嘴--然后走上山边，眺望苍穹！"

作曲家: Charles Ives
校订者: Malcolm Goldstein
乐器: String Quartet
出版社: Peermusic Classical
原文简介:
Ives wrote that in the course of the work, the performers “converse, discuss, argue (in RE 'politick'), fight, shake hands shut up -then walk up the mountain side to view the firmament!”

Ives's comments in the score highlight the conversational nature of the 1st and 2nd movements. He recalls friends from his post-collegiate days and pokes fun at the academic, conservative musicians of his day - all depicted in the music. The arguments in Mvt. 2 can get heated, but the quartet put it all aside in the transcendent finale.

The manuscript pages for the quartet are available for study online, at http://peer.ms/ives2stqt

“The Second String Quartet is one of Ives's richest and most original works, on several counts. One is its programmatic conception, and the realization of it in sound. Another is its projection of a kind of musical discourse the implications of which are still being worked through by composers. A third is the musical work as a whole, one of Ives's most subtly integrated, panoramically envisioned, and organically achieved.” - H.Wiley Hitchcock, in Ives: A Survey of the Music