Richards: Pulse and Drone for String Quartet Genre_Three Winds w/piano 'followed by a mind-boggling subsequent

'followed by a mind-boggling subsequent marking of 'più mosso'(a paradox resolved by the fact that the music becomes easier at that point)

and Allegro giocoso

has corrected many pitch and rhythmic errors and removed excessive articulation marks found in many other editions

The Sonata No

The last movement is a tarantella

Richards: Pulse and Drone for String Quartet Genre_Three Winds w/piano 'followed by a mind-boggling subsequentCode: JP9002 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0554 8 "Pulse" and "Drone" are the unifying features of virtually all musics throughout time and place. This work for string quartet, by Paul Richards, gradually unfolds different beat subdivisions (pulses) and tonal centers (drones) in a rhythmic arch form, followed by a sustained chorale coda with very little sense of pulse. Pulse and Drone was the winner of the 2000 New Music for Sligo Irish Music Rights Organization