Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet

• The String Quartets of Debussy and Ravel - Marianne WheeldonSibelius's "Internal Voices": Structure and Process in the Quartet in D Minor (Voces Intimae), Op. 56 - Joseph C. KrausThe Pitch Language of the Bartók Quartets - Joseph N. StrausThe String Quartet in the Music of Paul Hindemith - David NeumeyerComprehensibility, Variation, and the String Quartet Tradition: The Second Movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, Op. 30 - Matthew R. ShaftelProcess in the String Quartets of Alban Berg - David HeadlamWebern's Music for String Quartet - David ClampittVilla-Lobos's String Quartets - Eero TarastiAppropriate Tradition: The String Quartets of Sergei Prokofiev, Opp. 50 and 92 - Neil Minturn

In November 2010 Intimate Voices won the Society for Music Theory's Citation of Special Merit. This citation is awarded to 'editions, translations, reference works, or edited volumes of extraordinary value to the discipline.' The citation states: '[Intimate Voices] examines the string quartets of composers from Claude Debussy through Shulamit Ran, and including those of Berg, Bartok, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Ligeti, Cage, Britten, Carter, Berio, and others. The twenty different contributing authors provide multiple analytical voices, resulting in a contrapuntal conversation much like the string quartet medium under review.