NOUN | a string quartet | string quartets | |
SYNO | string quartet | string quartette |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- He is credited with the earliest string quartet.
- Georges Onslow (1784–1853) used the tune in his String Quartet No. 7 in G Minor, op.9, second movement.
- Interestingly, Leonard Bernstein quotes Beethoven's monumental "Große Fuge" for string quartet and employs Arnold Schoenberg's twelve tone technique, all in the context of a jazz infused Broadway show stopper.
- Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.
- The shock of Thomas's death later in the year moved Stravinsky to compose his "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas" for tenor, string quartet and four trombones.
- Haydn later used the hymn as the basis for the second movement ("Poco adagio cantabile") of his String Quartet No. 62 in C major, Opus 76 No. 3, often called the "Emperor" or "Kaiser" quartet.
- Machine Improvisation builds upon a long musical tradition of statistical modeling that began with Hiller and Isaacson's "Illiac Suite for String Quartet" (1957) and Xenakis' uses of Markov chains and stochastic processes.
- The cello is a member of the traditional string quartet as well as string quintets, sextet or trios and other mixed ensembles.
- Debussy did not give his works opus numbers, apart from his String Quartet, Op.
- The music is played by a string quartet and piano.
- Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No.
- The cello is considered a tenor instrument in some orchestral settings, but in a string quartet it is the bass instrument.
- The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last major work he completed.
- A string quartet consists of two violins, a viola and a cello. There is a vast body of music written for string quartets, as it is seen as an important genre in classical music.
- A string trio consists of three players, a string quartet four, a string quintet five, and so on.
- Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet named after him, active from 1971 until 2008.
- Xenakis used graph paper and a ruler to aid in calculating the velocity trajectories of glissando for his orchestral composition "Metastasis" (1953–54), but later turned to the use of computers to compose pieces like "ST/4" for string quartet and "ST/48" for orchestra (both 1962).
- Haydn's string quartets also have Hoboken numbers, but they are usually identified instead by their opus numbers, which have the advantage of indicating the groups of six quartets that Haydn published together.
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