Sonata form in the first movement of Bartók's fourth string quartet / Paul Wilson -- Bartók and traditional form description : some issues arising from the middle and late string quartets / Jonathan Bernard -- The structural role of formal contrast in Beethoven's Piano sonata op. 101 and Bartók's third string quartet / Jee Yeon Ryu -- In Beethoven's footsteps : metrical dissonance in Bartók's string quartets / Harald Krebs -- Bartók's grooves : metrical processes in the fourth string quartet / John Roeder -- Between sound and structure : folk rhythm at the center of Bartók's fifth string quartet / Daphne Leong -- The Romanian "Long song" as structural convergent point for the chiasmal harmonic design in Bartók's fourth string quartet / Elliott Antokoletz -- The use of tonal concepts and their attendant modes of continuity in the inner hearing of Bartók's string quartets / William Benjamin -- Aggregate structure and cyclic design at the conclusion of Bartók's second string quartet / Edward Gollin -- The realization(s) of functional qualities in Bartók's second string quartet / Charles Morrison -- How barbaric is Bartók's forte? About the performance of Bartók's fast movements for piano and strings, with emphasis on the first movement of the fifth string quartet / Judit Frigyesi -- Bartók's relics : nostalgia in György Ligeti's string quartet no. 2 / Martin Iddon -- Bartók's quartets, folk music, and the anxiety of influence / Dániel Péter Biró -- Recycled flowers : quotation, paraphrase and allusion in György Kurtág's Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky op. 28 for string quartet / Friedemann Sallis.