The Ill Tempered String Quartet: A Vademecum for the Amateur Musician

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Foreword    
• Introduction    
• 1. How Many Players in a String Quartet?    
• 2. The Home Salon    
• 3. By Any Other Name Would Smell...    
• 4. Staying in Shape    
• 5. Of Bellies and Bows    
• 6. Playing Second Fiddle    
• 7. The Sociopathology of the String Quartet    
• 8. Ripping the Rembrandt    
• 9. Fiddling with Strangers    
• 10. Some Informative Reading    
• 11. Composers and Decomposers    
• 12. Notes on the Literature    
• 13. Expansion and Contraction    
• 14. The High-Strung Amateur String Quartet Player    
• Appendix: The Interpretation of Musical Terms    
• Index