Definition of Quartets. Meaning of Quartets. Synonyms of Quartets

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Definition of Quartets

Quartet
Quartet Quar*tet", Quartette Quar*tette", n. [It. quartetto, dim. of quarto the fourth, a fourth part, fr. L. quartus the fourth. See Quart.] 1. (Mus.) (a) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. (b) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts. 2. (Poet.) A stanza of four lines.

Meaning of Quartets from wikipedia

- 91 string quartets. Less often, string quartets are written for other combinations of the standard string ensemble. These include quartets for one violin...
- 20 quartets as follows: "Haydn's quartets of the late 1760s and early 1770s [opp. 9, 17, and 20] are high points in the early history of the quartet. Characterized...
- Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was published with...
- traditional barbershop quartet included only male singers, contemporary quartets can include any gender combination. All-female barbershop quartets were often called...
- He composed the quartets in the sequence 12, 15, 13, 14, 16, writing 13 and 15 simultaneously. Beethoven wrote these last quartets in failing health...
- found in Franz Berwald's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and b****oon from 1819, his opus 1. A rare form of piano quartets consist of two pianos with...
- The three Razumovsky (or Rasumovsky) string quartets, opus 59, are a set of string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven. He wrote them in 1806, as a result...
- Jubilee quartets were po****r African-American religious musical groups in the first half of the 20th century. The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Singers...
- rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair with Conrad Muck. It has been described as "one of Germany's foremost string quartets". They have...
- that the quartets were not by Haydn, based on stylistic analysis.. He also concluded that only the first two quartets were by Hoffstetter. Quartet in E major...