Modern Arts Guitar Quartet
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This 1994 recording of all-original compositions for guitar quartet captures the bold and brilliant ensemble exploring the leading edges of music for classical guitar with a "take no prisoners" attitude missing from most new music for classical guitar.
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- 1 Three Contraptions No.1
- 2 Three Contraptions No.2
- 3 Three Contraptions No.3
- 4 They Go On Mumbling...(an elegy for John Cage) Prologue
- 5 They Go On Mumbling Duo
- 6 They Go On Mumbling Epergne
- 7 They Go On Mumbling March
- 8 They Go On Mumbling Epilogue
- 9 Quartet No. 2 Fiat Homo
- 10 Quartet No. 2 Fiat Lux
- 11 Quartet No. 2 Fiat Voluntas Tua
- 12 Left
- 13 Devil's Gate
- 14 Posada
- 15 Dibijos sobre el tema de la guitarra I
- 16 Dibijos sobre el tema de la guitarra II
- 17 Dibijos sobre el tema de la guitarra III
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The single remarkable album by the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet (Buzz Gravelle, Walter Marsh, James Phillipsen, Lawrence Schwedler), formed in 1990 in Los Angeles. This 1994 recording of all-original compositions for guitar quartet (most written in the 1990s) captures their brilliance and energy in seven world premiere recordings of works by quartet members as well as compositions from Peter Yates and the late Theodore Norman.
12-tone, minimalism and prepared guitar music fill this album. "They Go on Mumbling... (An Elegy for John Cage)" is one of the few pieces written for four prepared classical guitars--which items are either attached directly to the strings or inserted in between the strings and the guitar in order to alter the usual sound of the guitar. The result is a completely different sound world--part Western percussion ensemble, part Indonesian gamelan.