String Quartet No. 5 is crafted with a transparency of texture which complements its light-hearted disposition. It constitutes a single movement falling clearly into four distinct sections: a cheerful?Allegro amabile, a quasi-chaconne, an?Andante?based around an ostinato in 11/8, and finally??Lazily? where the ostinato idea is developed using palindromic rhythms, eventually fading away into nothing?

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