String Quartet No.9 (McEwen, John Blackwood)

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		Movements/Sections 1 (Lento - Allegro molto - Poco meno mosso - Lento) Composition Year 1916 Genre Categories Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

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Publisher Info.:

London: Anglo-French Music Co., 1917. Plate A. F. M. Cº. 1.

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	String Quartet No.9
Alternative Title	String Quartet No.7 (current numbering) ; Threnody

Composer	McEwen, John Blackwood
Key	E♭ minor
Movements/Sections	1 (Lento - Allegro molto - Poco meno mosso - Lento)
Year/Date of Composition	1916
First Publication	1917
Dedication	To F.D. d'A.
Average Duration	16 minutes
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	2 Violins, viola, cello

Misc. Comments

The consensus numbering of McEwen's string quartets has changed since they were published, as he excluded his first two quartets in an accounting of them (apparently for Grove's Dictionary ca.1950? the last of them dates from 1947 which would make sense.) -String Quartet No.8 is now referred to as Quartet No.6 (in A major, Biscay), e.g. and this work is no.7. It was, however, published as quartet no.9.

It is also consensus to refer to this quartet as being in E♭ major, but for what reason eludes me. Mystification, assuredly. Minor-mode takes up so much of the work that by most definitions I think the mode would probably be taken reasonably to be minor, the major-mode conclusion being unexceptional...