Andante Cantabile for string quartet

Short piece I wrote for quartet

Hey @BipolarComposer!

I like some of the ideas you present in this piece!  I think my favorite is the following pizzicato idea that recurs throughout the piece:    As a whole I think the piece has a sort of ordinary type of beauty.  It's not trying to impress or be spectacular - it's just chugging along with ordinary seeming material and pedestrian harmony, but it's beautiful nonetheless.  I like how it doesn't end on the tonic chord but instead on the subdominant.  That's one of my favorite kinds of endings to a piece of music that I often employ in my own compositions!  Now that I quickly peruse the score I notice that the whole piece manages to almost completely stay diatonic to C major throughout!  No problem with that - and you do throw in the occasional # in there.  Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the comments.

My intention was for it to be simple, and song like. Sort of like a “pop song” for string quartet. Where it’s kind of bouncy and joyful throughout, with very little  complication.

I also love ending on anything that isn’t the tonic. It leaves a sense of mystery.