Ravel: Stringquartett, 2nd Movement

The second movement of Ravel's String Quartet in an Artyfile recording, running six and a half minutes. This is the famous pizzicato movement: plucked strings driving a restless, intricate texture that still sounds modern despite being written in 1903. A public domain work in a licensed Artyfile master recording.

What does Ravel: Stringquartett, 2nd Movement sound like?

Four instruments, almost entirely plucked at the outset, producing a percussive momentum that no other chamber writing quite matches. The texture is transparent and detailed, with cross-rhythms that keep it feeling alive. It is sophisticated music that nonetheless has an obvious pulse, which makes it unusually easy to cut picture against.

Where does this track work best?

• Fashion, design and architecture films
• Art house and auteur cinema
• Technology and precision engineering brand content
• Gallery, exhibition and cultural programming
• Sophisticated title and credit sequences
• Contemporary documentary with an intellectual register

Choose it when you want intelligence and momentum without the emotional insistence of full orchestra. Chamber scale keeps it intimate; the pizzicato keeps it moving.

Track details

Title	Ravel: Stringquartett, 2nd Movement
Performed by	Ravel
Composition	Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Genre	Classical
Mood	Intricate, pizzicato-driven, sophisticated
Instruments	String quartet
Duration	6:26
Format	WAV, 44.1 kHz stereo master
Basic licence	€29.90 — worldwide sync, one payment
Limited Edition	€69.90 per 1% share (20 shares max)

What licence do you get?

The track is delivered as a studio-mastered WAV. A single Artyfile Basic licence at €29.90 covers worldwide sync use for the lifetime of your production — film, YouTube, broadcast, social media, podcasts and client work — as one payment, with no subscription and no recurring fees. Artyfile administers the sync rights to its own catalogue directly, so no additional collection-society fee falls due on the licence itself, and every purchase comes with a licence certificate as documented proof of what you cleared. A public performance at a live event remains a separate matter that the venue or organiser settles in the usual way.

Artyfile registers this catalogue in YouTube Content ID under a monetize policy. Expect a routine Content ID match on an upload that uses the track — YouTube Content ID rules apply, including restrictions on longer Shorts. On the Basic licence the music's advertising revenue flows into Artyfile's pool; on a Limited Edition share it flows back to the owners of the master.

If you would rather own a piece of the recording than licence it, the Limited Edition offers numbered shares in this master at €69.90 per 1% share, capped at twenty shares per track and entered in the Artyfile ownership register. Shareholders receive quarterly statements and a share of the recording's streaming revenue. Royalties depend on actual usage, are not guaranteed and may be zero.