Table 1.

Performance excerpts.

Dynamics

String Quartet no. 17 in Bb Major, K. 458, Mvt. II: Minuetto and Trio (mm. 29-48), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet Op. 18, no. 1, Mvt. I: Allegro con brio (mm. 1-20), Ludvig van Beethoven

Articulation

String Quartet Op. 59, no. 7 ”Rasumovsky”, Mvt. II: Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando (mm. 1-30), Ludvig van Beethoven

String Quartet No. 2 in Eb Major, Op. 1, no. 2, Mvt. III: Menuetto and Trio (mm. 27-47), Joseph Hadyn