Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3

Published: Oct. 1, 2011, 11:05 p.m.

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Novelist and poet Mark Haddon explains what it is about Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3 that reminds him of an argumentative family meal; the composer himself describes with relish his 'eclipses' of sound; and Paul Griffiths explains Carter's use of metric modulation.

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