related works

The wind, high : for bass-baritone, flute and vibraphone, 1994 / on a poem by Fernando Pessoa, translation: Jonathan Griffin, James Fulkerson

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: bas-bar fl vibr

Lullabye for a young girl dreaming : for string quartet / Vanessa Lann

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

Vers le Nom : for string quartet / Boris Filanovsky

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc

Spoof : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc

composition

String quartet No. 4 / James Fulkerson

Other authors:
Fulkerson, James (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The work is composed in three movements which are performed with a slight pause between each of them. All movements are either fast or very fast. In particular, movement three sounds as if it is being improvised - although it is fully notated, while movement two applies a reductive process to music initially heard in movement one. While I believe that I am working within the 'tradition' of classical European art music, I am aware that for more than a decade there has been a convergence between classical music and popular music to the point where it is hard to identify where one crosses the line into one area or the other. Consequently, I expect my listener to be familiar with a number of works such as the Beatles' use of the string quartet, John Zorn's 'Forbidden Fruit', Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's use of collage technique, etc. - JAMES FULKERSON