String Quartet No. 2 (Kernis)

String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis (1997) is a string quartet by Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960), inspired by renaissance and baroque dances, composed for the Lark Quartet and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, with a special citation to George Gershwin. His first quartet being named Musica celestis: My new string quartet started off because I wanted to deal with baroque dance forms and medieval dance rhythms.