Durand, Joël-FrançoisKarpen, RichardSargsyan, Alisa2017-05-162017-05-162017-03Sargsyan_washington_0250O_16921.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/38664Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-03The motivating idea behind this string quartet is to explore the ways and methods of multi-layered musical material development, starting from the four independent instrumental parts and coming to a complete diffusion of all the distinct elements and gestures of those parts into just one wave of motion.application/pdfen-USnoneCompositionString QuartetMusicMusicThesis