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String Quartet (Study Score) SKU: HL.48024792 String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 24 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060136085. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024792). ISBN 9781784545222. UPC: 888680968168. 7.25x10.25 inches.Contusion is a concise, poignantly balanced one movement cry of pain. Its structure echoes classical sonata form, with its tight, numb and often repeated opening figure flowering into a much more anguished central section before the terse figure returns transformed yet unassuaged in a bleakly whispered ending in which the cello briefly takes wing.