String Quartet No. 2 (1968) consists of five movements. They differ widely from each other in their types of motion. In the first, the structure is largely broken up, as in Aventures. In the second, everything is reduced to very slow motion, and the music seems to be coming from a distance, with great lyricism. The pizzicato third movement is a machine-like studies, hard and mechanical, whereby the parts playing repeated notes create a "granulated" continuum. In the fourth, which is fast and threatening, everything that happened before is crammed together. Lastly, in strong contrast, the fifth movement spreads itself out. In each movement, the same basic configurations return, but each time their colouring or viewpoint is different, so that the overall form only really emerges when one listens to all five movements in context.
string quartet no 2 (1968) consists of five movements they differ widely from each other in their types of motion in the first the structure is largely broken up as in aventures in the second everything is reduced to very slow motion and the music seems to be coming from a distance with great lyricism the pizzicato third movement is a machine-like studies hard and mechanical whereby the parts playing repeated notes create a "granulated" continuum in the fourth which is fast and threatening everything that happened before is crammed together lastly in strong contrast the fifth movement spreads itself out in each movement the same basic configurations return but each time their colouring or viewpoint is different so that the overall form only really emerges when one listens to all five movements in context