string quartet
noun
1
: a composition for string quartet
2
: a quartet of performers on stringed instruments usually including a first and second violin, a viola, and a cello
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Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.
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Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
At the ceremony, a string quartet featuring members of the Nashville Symphony performed, as did Kowalczyk herself, conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe, and student Carter Hammonds, who represented Warner Elementary.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Perhaps his most iconoclastic work is the original ending to his Opus 130 string quartet.
—Andrew Binns, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Next door, Billboard Onboard is a singalong piano bar, and just down the hall is B.B. King’s Blues Club, which pumps blistering soul, rock, and blues, with the addition of a classical string quartet on longer European sailings.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
At the ceremony, a string quartet featuring members of the Nashville Symphony performed, as did Kowalczyk herself, conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe, and student Carter Hammonds, who represented Warner Elementary.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Perhaps his most iconoclastic work is the original ending to his Opus 130 string quartet.
—Andrew Binns, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Next door, Billboard Onboard is a singalong piano bar, and just down the hall is B.B. King’s Blues Club, which pumps blistering soul, rock, and blues, with the addition of a classical string quartet on longer European sailings.
—David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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“String quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20quartet. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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