String Quartet No. 3, score and parts

ISMN: 979-0-800011-44-3

String Quartet No. 3, Partitur und Stimmen

This string quartet is in one continuous movement of fifteen sections, with each section being a ?transcription? of the music in a previous section. In these transcriptions the changes can be somewhat minimal - a slight altering of register, dynamics, rhythms, or more radical resulting in new harmonic and contrapuntal relationships. With this compositional method Rands aims to create a continuous self-referential musical discourse that allows for recall and even repetition. String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned for the Ying Quartet by the Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music.