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- Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
- New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Genesis and Private Reception
- 4 First Movement
- 5 Second Movement
- 6 Third Movement
- 7 Finale
- 8 Responding to the Quartet
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Third Movement
Romanza
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2023
- Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
- New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Genesis and Private Reception
- 4 First Movement
- 5 Second Movement
- 6 Third Movement
- 7 Finale
- 8 Responding to the Quartet
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The expressive heart of the quartet, the third-movement Romanze is marked throughout by pronounced harmonic ambivalence and formal fluidity, picking up the tonal instability heard at the end of the preceding movement. Written in a G minor signature, the ostensible tonic is continually undercut by its subdominant C minor, and even the G major sonority at the end of the movement leaves the matter not entirely resolved. Once again, manuscripts show substantial revisions to parts of the movement: indeed, it appears that Hensel clarified certain moments of tonal articulation in order, almost paradoxically, to increase the sense of tonal ambiguity.
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- Hensel: String Quartet in E flat , pp. 79 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023