Resources on Chamber music in ARMA

Chamber music is an important part of ARMA, with a selection of works from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries well suited for music history and music theory courses. In addition, the commentaries on several of these pieces offer explore significant features of signicant works. As with other parts of ARMA, when your students encounter terminology specific to chamber music, they may find ARMA's Glossary to be a useful starting point.

ARMA contains a number of important chamber works:

Baroque
• Corelli: Trio Sonata, op. 3, no. 2
• Legrenzi: Trio sonata "La Raspona"
• Telemann: Tafelmusik, Quartet in D minor: movement 1
• Telemann: Tafelmusik, Quartet in D minor: movement 2
• Telemann: Tafelmusik, Quartet in D minor: movement 3
• Telemann: Tafelmusik, Quartet in D minor: movement 4
• Telemann: Trio Sonata in E minor, movement 2
Classical
• d'Ordonez: String Quartet, Op. 1, no. 1
• Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major, op. 1, no. 1
• Haydn: String Quartet in C major, op. 20, no. 2
• Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, op. 33, no. 3
• Haydn: String Quartet in C major, op. 76, no. 3 "Emperor"
• Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 33, no. 2 "The Joke"
• Haydn: String Quartet in G major, op. 77, no. 1
• Haydn: String Quartet in F major, op. 77, no. 2
• Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Romantic
• Beethoven: String Quartet, op. 18, no. 4
• Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat major, op. 130
• Beethoven: String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, op. 131
• Brahms: Quartet no. 3 for piano and strings, Op. 60
• Fanny Mendelssohn [Hensel]: Trio for violin, violoncello, and piano, op. 11
• Rogers: Reverie for Violoncello and Piano
• Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D. 804
Twentieth Century
• Berg: Lyrische Suite (Lyric Suite), movement 3
• Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître, movement 6 "Bourreaux de solitude"
• Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931, movement 1
• Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931, movement 2
• Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931, movement 3
• Crumb: Black Angels (Images 1), "Danse Macabre"
• Crumb: Black Angels (Images 1), "Devil Music"
• Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the end of time)
• Ligeti: Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (10 Pieces for Wind Quintet), no. 1
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, no 7 "Der kranke Mond"
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, no 8 "Die Nacht"
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, no 13 "Enthauptung"
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, no 14 "Die Kreuze"
• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, no 21 "O alter Duft"
• Schoenberg: Second String Quartet, Op. 10, movement 1
• Schoenberg: Second String Quartet, Op. 10, movement 2
• Schoenberg: Second String Quartet, Op. 10, movement 4
• Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8, op. 110

In addition, ARMA contains commentaries on selected works:

• Corelli: Trio Sonata, Op. 3, no. 2 (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
• Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33, no. 2 "The Joke" (Commentary) by Bryan Proksch
• Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 18, no. 4 (Commentary) by Robin Elliott
• Fanny Mendelssohn [Hensel]: Trio for violin, violoncello, and piano, Op. 11 Commentary) by Claire Fontijn

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