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quartet

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Alt. of Quartette

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. Elliott Carter

Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it's just me, but I'm beginning to detect a trend. Alastair Reynolds

Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family. George Bernard Shaw

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. Yo-Yo Ma

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. Boz Scaggs

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. Branford Marsalis

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