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String Quartet No. 4: Aftermath
for string quartet
I. Shock
II. Awe
III. Renewal
Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis 2018
Program Note
In 2017, I visited the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City. It was an emotionally charged experience to see the relics of large-scale destruction in person, to hear the stories of individuals who suffered and lived through the event, and of those who didn’t.
My own memories from that morning were stirred up, watching on a television screen miles away, in another city, as the horror unfolded. The shock of sudden, willful violence; the daze of fear and awe in the aftermath; and the slow, years-long period of rebuilding and renewal, both literal and psychological
This piece too, then, is in its small way a memorial.
—Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis, 2018
Movements
I. Shock
II. Awe
III. Renewal
Instrumentation
String quartet
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Duration: 19 minutes
First printing, March 2025
Copyright ©2018 Haralabos Stafylakis. All Rights Reserved. Program Note Copyright ©2018 Haralabos Stafylakis. All Rights Reserved Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com
Violin I
Violin II
Viola Cello
(clear distinction between long [tenuto] & short [staccatissimo] notes)
(clear distinction between long [tenuto] & short [staccatissimo] notes)
on the string (connect w/ Vc.)
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(connect w/ Vla.)
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(connect tenuto notes w/ Vln. II)
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(connect tenuto notes w/ Vln. I)
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(clear distinction between long [tenuto] & short [staccatissimo] notes)
(clear distinction between long [tenuto] & short [staccatissimo] notes)
(clear distinction between long [tenuto] & short [staccatissimo] notes)
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