Work Information
Poul Ruders : String Quartet no. 3 "Motet"
| Publisher |
Wilhelm Hansen |
Category |
Works for 2-6 Players |
| Sub-Category |
String Quartet |
Year Composed |
1979 |
| Duration |
7 Minutes |
Orchestration |
str4tet |
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| Set(s) of Parts: |
KP00246 |
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| Score(s): |
WH30748 |
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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
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