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String Quartets - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mov. 1 sonata form
      - Mov. 2 slow and emotive
      - Mov. 3 minuet and trio
      - Mov. 4 rondo or sonata rondo form
    - - series of perfect cadences at the end for 'false' endings
  - - - eg. 'harp' quartet
        
        first mov. sonata form
        
        second mov. rondo form/adagio
        
        third mov. scherzo
        
        fourth mov. variations (normally 2nd mov)
    - - eg. the 'great fugue'
        
        original form consisted of 6 mov. instead of usual 4
        
        mov. 1 is in sonata form
        
        6th mov. 2 melodic ideas
        
        complex counterpoint
        
        generally alternate between tonic/dominant
- - - - imitative entries at the start
      - melody dom homophony after dissonant intro
  - - - eg. opus 18 quartet in F
        
        opening 4 bars in unison octaves
        
        melody dom homophony bars 5-8
        
        alternating monophonic bars
        
        homophony
        
        imitative entries
- - - - tritone between 2nd violin entry and 1st violin entry
      - non-diatonic intro
      - viola A flat at start, 2 beats later violin A natural - almost like false relation
  - - - conventional classical diatonic harmony mixed with chromaticism
      - eg. false relation and dim 7 in Opus 18 Quartet in F
- - - - eg. harp quartet
        
        pizzicato to represent harp
    - - eg op 132
        
        opening chords have vibrato like an organ
- - - - eg. opus 18 quartet in F
        
        some sense of terraced dynamics but sf accents and cresc. and dim.