Bartok Assistance Needed

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

I am writing a fic in which I have Sherlock taking part in the performance of the Bartok quartets over a series of evenings. I am doing my homework with listening guides - Carnegie Hall etc. - but am curious if there are any musicians reading this who would be willing to help me brainstorm as I am trying to translate this powerful music to the written word.

My goals include showing Sherlock as a skilled musician, and as I am not one myself I feel the need to seek a musical beta.

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[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

He wandered the countryside with pack animals in order to get villages to sing into his phonograph!

At the conference, someone asked me if ethnomusicologists still work that way. That would be a no. I travel the countryside in an airplane, getting professional musicians to talk into my digital voice recorder. ;)