Quartet Passacaglia (String Quartet No. 9): Full Score

This one-movement piece, consisting of an introduction, a theme and 10 variations, is a sort of musical narrative about a human life, like in La Passacaglia della vita, the famous 17th century Italian Passacaglia about life). The harmony of the piece is based on my own idea of so called complete chords (chords that include all the different intervals within them). The introduction opens with such a chord in the following position of the intervals 5-6-4-3-2-1 (in semitones). It is quite symb...