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String Quartet No. 2 (Glass)

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work are highly and closely related to each other. This composition is written for string quartet, but has been performed by
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After withdrawing his first sketch of a string quartet in 1963, Philip Glass composed his
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seventeen years after his first quartet, even though it was not initially conceived as
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and takes approximately nine minutes to perform. The movements are listed as follows:
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all along the four movements. All of the movements of this
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string quartet
Philip Glass
Samuel Beckett
novella
same name
chamber music
Mabou Mines
JoAnne Akalaitis
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theme
arpeggios
minor keys
monochrome
string orchestras
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa
Naxos
String Quartet No. 2 (Company)
AllMusic
"About this Recording – 8.554568 – Glass, P.: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten"
"Glass, P.: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten"
String Quartet No. 2
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