How To Use String quartet In A Sentence
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Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece.
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The straining bearers like a string quartet, taking the burden up in unison, at a nod from their leader?
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A piano and stringed instruments were purchased and the family formed a string quartet.
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Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone.
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I can imagine a string quartet playing here.
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They were both lovely, almost traditional pieces, but the highlight for me was Maja Ratkje's "gagaku variations" for accordion and string quartet, partly because of the Norwegian accordion soloist Frode Haltli.
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Here were five hugely accomplished musicians who were listening to each other as intently as members of a string quartet.
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Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and symphonies to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.
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His string quartets and piano sonatas (particularly the enigmatic masterpieces of his final years) still rank as supreme tests of interpretation.
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String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56 Voces intimae" (Sibelius, Emerson Quartet) "Piano Sonata No. 32 In C Minor, Op. 111" (Beethoven, Mitsuko Uchida)
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The madrigals of the baroque period were not written for professionals, and neither were Haydn's string quartets.
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Sun Rings is a piece composed by Terry Riley for string quartet and a 60-voice choir, and part of it comes from the whistlers recorded by NASA's explorations into space.
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People asked if he knew a harpist or a string quartet and he would find them.
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(For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
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This sixth solo album is entirely acoustic with a string quartet central to the sound and classical minimalism and folk music the key influences.
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Mind has waited for 3 billion years on this planet before composing its first string quartet.
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On sunny days a string quartet plays on the terrace.
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After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons.
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The Andante moderato is dead serious, as though ‘String Quartet’ and fun were two polar opposites.
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On this occasion, virtuoso oboist Anne Marie Gabriele also joined in, as well as the Lyris String Quartet (Alyssa Park and Shalini Vijayan, violins; Luke Maurer, viola; and Timothy Loo, cello) in their series debut as an ensemble.
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It carries a fair part of my CD collection so I can listen to Bach cantatas and Beethoven string quartets as well as BBC News, downloaded from the internet, at the gym, while walking, and on long plane flights.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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They give idealized realizations of my work in the string quartet medium.
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I can imagine a string quartet playing here.
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After the interval we heard Milhaud's own re-orchestration of his ballet score La Creation du Monde for piano and string quartet.
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The violist and the orchestra share the concerto's sound-world with a string quartet, tuned a quarter-tone lower - a darker ‘second dimension,’ in the words of the composer.
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The restaurant here still has a string quartet that can play a medley of songs written about the very room you're sitting in.
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A string quartet played as they walked back down the aisle and the sun shone as guests played croquet on the lawn at the drinks reception.
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There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
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The established T'ang Quartet, also from Singapore, excelled in two contemporary works, the folk-inspired Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March by yet another 1930s boy, Aulis Sallinen (b 1935), and the third string quartet by Bright Sheng (b 1955) which mixed Chinese and western techniques to nimbly embroidered effect.
Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review
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In fact the string quartet was Nasa's idea, the product of an arts programme that, over the past 30 years, has commissioned work from artists including Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.
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Meanwhile, a string quartet plays.
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In 2005 I had the honor of being commissioned by the publisher of Acoustic Guitar Magazine to compose a concerto for steel-string guitar, string quartet and string orchestra.
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Composed in 1797 to 1798, this is the work of a young Beethoven who, after moving on to the string quartet genre after the three trios of op. 9, never wrote another string trio.
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The composing manuscript of Beethoven's scherzo from the String Quartet Op. 127 in E-flat major is one of the most spectacular of the composer's autographs to have appeared on the market.
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Glenn Basham is associate professor of violin at the University of Miami, first violinist with the Bergonzi String Quartet and concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic.
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Or what about the chamber music: 70 string quartets, 30-plus piano trios, and well over 100 baryton trios.
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These include lieder, thirty string quartets and six symphonies, plus numerous overtures and choral works.
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These charming songs exist in two different versions, the first for baritone and string quartet, and the second for tenor and woodwind quartet (oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon).
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The concert begins with Ravel's only string quartet, a vibrant and dissonant work of French impressionism.
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Joseph Haydn's works include 104 symphonies and 84 string quartets.
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This work, written in 1975, is closely derived from the slow movement of Rochberg's Third String Quartet - an important signpost in the composer's movement away from serialism.
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A solido projection of a string quartet played classical mood music on a little stage surrounded by a brook.
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I once tried to write a string quartet that eliminated violins completely - two violas and two cellos - before my professor made me revise it for the standard combo in the name of greater color variation.
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Meanwhile, a string quartet plays.
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It began as the Andante religioso slow movement for an early String Quartet in E minor.
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His first piano sonata, string quartet and chamber ensemble pieces are Beethovenian in form and content.
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Willis, playing a David Sutherland copy of a 1730s Florentine fortepiano, brought a string quartet to the stage with him for three of Bach's keyboard concertos.
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It was an afternoon wedding and warm enough for a string quartet to play outside.
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A string quartet played Bollywood music during the reception.
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When all four cellos enter using bows, the texture and performance practices suggest a classical string quartet.
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They give idealized realizations of my work in the string quartet medium.
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Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone.
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Arriaga was second fiddle in a string quartet at nine years of age, and two years later wrote an octet.
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A string quartet played as they walked back down the aisle and the sun shone as guests played croquet on the lawn at the drinks reception.
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The Sunrise String Quartet to our right plays musical interludes for accompaniment and transition.
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A string quartet was playing merrily in the corner and hundreds of feet were tapping out uneven rhythms on the mosaic marble floor.
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The CD contains a short string quartet movement, a suite of four pieces for brass quintet, and solo pieces for piano, trombone, and cello.
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The editor of the volume gives herself the plum job of dealing not only with the great string quartets but also the marvellous Music for strings, percussion and celesta.
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Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there.
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Grieg was a pianist rather than violinist and his only extant string quartet came at a time of a rumoured affair between his wife and older brother.
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With his staggeringly prolific output of soundtracks, operas, theatre works, string quartets, symphonies, and concerti, Philip Glass has become the classical musical analogue to littérateur Joyce Carol Oates.
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If hiring harpists or a string quartet for the church, ask them (before booking) if they would also play for an hour or so at your reception; they should do this for no extra cost.
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Two string quartets are utilized, as are a pair of French horns, piccolo, bassoon, basset horn, oboe and instruments usually associated with jazz.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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He took the recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors and scored them as computer samples against the striking bowed chords of a string quartet.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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The Juilliard String Quartet took the role of the Baroque concertino, or small solo group, playing in consort with the ripieno, or full orchestra.
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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You see, when you have duos for violin and piano, clarinet and piano, or even a string quartet, there is usually one person who has the final decision.
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In addition to teaching, he played in a string quartet and was concertmaster of the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra.
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There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
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The Festival opens amidst the ravishing sound-world of Debussy's ground-breaking String Quartet in G minor.
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BROOKLYN RIDER The string quartet is made up of musicians who worked with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts organization. 8 p.m. George Mason University, Center for the Arts, Concert Hall, 4400 University Dr.,
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The string quartet playing in four helicopters?
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The Ethel string quartet have got rhythm - the kind that puts music back on its feet
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Monday's seven-hour concert features a sprawl of hybrid-happy new-music acts, including So Percussion, the Nebraska-based Chiara String Quartet, violist Nadia Sirota, and Buke and Gass, a Brooklyn duo that plays homemade mutant string instruments.
Playing Between Rock and a Classical Place
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A piano and stringed instruments were purchased and the family formed a string quartet.
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(Soundbite of "Adagio for Strings) SIMON: The adagio is the second movement of Samuel Barber's" String Quartet, "the rest of that work having receded almost behind the power of the adagio.
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The spouses were serenaded by a string quartet from the Juilliard School in New York City as they ate.
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In these conditions he managed also to compose a nonet for wind quintet and string quartet before being transferred in February 1945 to Terezín, where he died a month later of dysentery.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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No wonder the conventional string quartet lineup avoids the double bass.
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The string quartet loved it.
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Like his contemporaries, Joseph Haydn wrote very early divertimentos for string quartet.
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The year after, he added a string quartet and a subtitling system.
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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The string quartet, for two violins, viola and violoncello, was one of the most widely-cultivated genres of chamber music during the Classical period, with the Viennese masters Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all contributing substantially to the literature.
The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Duke University)
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He therefore embarked on a series of arrangements for String Orchestra in an attempt to present the String Quartet medium to a wider audience.
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Last weekend's fare offered a mini fest of string quartets.
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Mr. Barber 's 1935 recording with the Curtis String Quartet of "Dover Beach," his own setting of Matthew Arnold' s classic poem of Victorian disillusion, is a technically polished, sensitively interpreted performance that has never been bettered.
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41/3 [Assai agitato - Un poco adagio - Tempo risoluto]
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The Beethoven Experience is dedicated to broadcasting the entire works of Ludwig Van Beethoven - from the complete string quartets and symphonies to lesser known works such as the folk songs and the cantatas.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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Last Round is for double string quartet and double bass, written in memory of Piazzolla, and conceived as an idealized version of his keyless accordion, the bandoneon.
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Joseph Haydn's works include 104 symphonies and 84 string quartets.
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Royal Ballet star Ivan Putrov will be suspended on wires above a string quartet playing Tchaikovsky for a whole nine minutes while the audience gasp and marvel at those taut muscles and lean limbs.
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Here were five hugely accomplished musicians who were listening to each other as intently as members of a string quartet.
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At the same time, they are as refined as any of the string quartets and quintets he composed during that period.
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They danced to the music of a string quartet.
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The speaker cabinets were positioned on stage as a string quartet would be positioned.
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Mind has waited for 3 billion years on this planet before composing its first string quartet.
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Recent exposure to a Mozart string quartet arranged for four clarinets convinced me that Mozart knew what he was doing when he didn't score the original for four clarinets.
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In performing these youthful works, the Angeles String Quartet played with such deft skill, there was an abundance of dulcet adagios, energetic allegros, and gracious minuets.
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A string quartet should play in a small auditorium because that's where it sounds right.
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Increasing national popularity resulted in a nine-month residency at the once-infamous Sun City resort, where the Soweto String Quartet was discovered by BMG Records producer Grahame Beggs; their label debut, Zebra Crossing, appeared in mid 1998, followed a year later by Renaissance.
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No wonder the conventional string quartet lineup avoids the double bass.
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Two string quartets are utilized, as are a pair of French horns, piccolo, bassoon, bassett horn, oboe and instruments usually associated with jazz.
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Much more conventional a string quartet format now, it has half the pulse of Bartók but twice the melody of Tippett.
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Shield composed more than 40 light operas, pantomimes, and ballad operas, as well as string quartets and trios, other instrumental pieces, and numerous songs.
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Michelle Dulak Thomson: In American English, a string quartet is singular.
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Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello.
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her fingers felt their way through the string quartet
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He began composing late in life, completing six symphonies and nine string quartets.
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Last weekend's fare offered a mini fest of string quartets.
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For most of the concert the 36-year-old sat at the piano and was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer and a keyboard player.
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Purists, however, might regard arranging a Schubert string quartet for chamber orchestra as a step too far.
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A string quartet should play in a small auditorium because that's where it sounds right.
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There are two symphonies, ten suites, and concert overture, three symphonic poems, an oratorio, "The Captivity," six string quartettes, and a mass of psalmodic and other vocal writing.
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The Beatles incorporated classical elements into rock so seamlessly that it is easy to forget that string quartets and Bach-like countermelodies and bass lines (not to mention plagal cadences) did not always populate pop.
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Purists, however, might regard arranging a Schubert string quartet for chamber orchestra as a step too far.
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The string quartet will play during the reception and there will be a licensed bar during the interval and throughout the performance.
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A string quartet was playing Mozart.
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A string quartet consists of two violins, a viola and a cello.
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But this is far too facile an appraisal of a composer whose music is far more human than perhaps even he at times would like to admit and bear in mind that there are cabaret songs in his output as well as serialist string quartets.
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I once tried to write a string quartet that eliminated violins completely - two violas and two cellos - before my professor made me revise it for the standard combo in the name of greater color variation.
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I'm not attending the joint string quartet performances by the young Johannes Quartet and the retiring Guarnerius tomorrow night, because I have a rehearsal.
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American Quartet, danced by the company to the Dvorak string quartet of the same name exuded a sense of youthful optimism in its spacious, freewheeling movement against a backlit cyclorama.
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They had a top-notch instrumental group on hand - string quartet, theorbo, organ - to enliven the composer's imaginative backcloths.
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Two-cello quintets and string quartets poured from him, but for grander occasions there were symphonies of a robust charm that had every late-eighteenth-century ingredient except Haydn's daring and bubbling originality.
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The string quartet playing in four helicopters?
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Song: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41/3 [Assai agitato - Un poco adagio - Tempo risoluto]
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So do concertos, string quartets and sonatas.
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It was an afternoon wedding and warm enough for a string quartet to play outside.
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On sunny days a string quartet plays on the terrace.
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We were serenaded by a string quartet.
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A string quartet played Bollywood music during the reception.
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The string quartet loved it.
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The adagio from the String Quartet Number 4 was a more contemplative, soothing piece.
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What an inspired combination: Two of the most influential popular musicians of their generation plus a string quartet with attitude.
