Usko Meriläinen: String Quartet No.2 'Kyma': String Quartet: Score

(Strings)

SKU: HL.14066212

Composed by Usko Meril Inen. Score. General Merchandise. Duration 240 seconds. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #JM00021. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14066212).

String Quartet

SKU: FG.042-08257-7

Composed by Usko Merilainen. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08257-7).

ISBN 979-0-042-08257-7.

Usko Merilainen's first string quartet is a serial work completed in 1965. The ground occupied by the work is closer than ever to the second Viennese school proper. Merilainen makes a deliberate attempt to break notational taboos. In two places in the second movement - each of about 10 bars - he makes use of time-space notation in a way typical of his work, thereby discarding precisely defined durational relationships.