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While in Beethoven’s String Quartet the violinists play their instruments with conventional standards, Crumb developed several techniques producing sounds that we did not hear previously. It reminds me of the extreme expressionist in the modernism era.Ĭompared with Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, Movement II, Black Angel does not have a form, a rhythmic pattern. Personally I really appreciate the frank and unconstraint anxiety the piece displays. The use of instrument is also challenged in this piece, with the violins being performed in unconventional way that will make a traditional violin teacher turn pale. It sounds like an experiment of dissonance intertwining with irregular beats in the rhythmic line. With exceptions of few fragments, the piece has no clear and consistent motifs, themes, or melody.
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Therefore, this piece is highly free and depends on the interpretation of the performers. Many parts in this work are not written in bar lines, making it impossible to have strict meters. Crumb basically gives each of these elements a new meaning in his work, Black Angel. At the beginning of the course, we learned basic musical elements to be rhythm, meter, tempo, pitch, melody, dynamics, instrumental textures, harmony, tonality and form, etc. Crumb’s work challenges almost every aspect of the definition for music.