String Quartet No.3 'Motet'

Motette

för:

2 violiner, viola, cello (stråkkvartett)

Utgåva:

Stämsats

Artikelnr.:

840743

Författare / kompositör:

Poul Ruders

Svårighetsgrad:

svårt

Omfattning:

34 sidor

Förlag / Tillverkare:

Wilhelm Hansen Musikforlag

Tillverkarens nr.:

KP00246

ISBN:

9788759859377

Beskrivning

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 appearsunaccountably 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 suggestiveof 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