Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
Uwate, Kimberlee Junko
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Description
Title
Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
Author(s)
Uwate, Kimberlee Junko
Issue Date
2019-02-11
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Bashford, Christina
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Bashford, Christina
Committee Member(s)
Freivogel, Liz
McDonough, Daniel
Taylor, Stephen
Department of Study
Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
String Quartet
business
Abstract
At their origins, American string quartets achieved a high standard of performance through full-time commitments made financially possible through individual patrons. As the American music scene matured through the twentieth century, the string quartet profession integrated performance and education in both work values and financial support. In the late twentieth-century, a clear quartet “career path” emerged which was supported by a variety of resources from graduate degrees in string quartet, which were created specifically to develop student string quartets into professional ensembles, to competitions and governmental financial support of specific programming. As quartets continued to flourish in the US during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, some groups chose to break from the model and self-sustain as a community-based nonprofit organization outside (or in addition to) educational residencies.
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