Quartet
noun
A group of four people or things.
The string quartet will be performing at the concert tonight.
Often appears as...
- string quartet
- jazz quartet
noun
A composition for four performers.
Mozart wrote many quartets during his lifetime.
Often appears as...
- string quartet
- piano quartet
noun
A band of four singers or musicians.
The quartet performed a beautiful rendition of the song.
Often appears as...
- barbershop quartet
- jazz quartet
noun
A group of four people or things.
The string quartet will be performing at the concert tonight.
Often appears as...
- string quartet
- jazz quartet
noun
A composition for four performers.
Mozart wrote many quartets during his lifetime.
Often appears as...
- string quartet
- piano quartet
noun
A band of four singers or musicians.
The quartet performed a beautiful rendition of the song.
Often appears as...
- barbershop quartet
- jazz quartet
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Music
While 'quartet' often refers to music groups, it can also describe any four people or things together.
The four athletes formed a winning quartet in the relay race.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Number
'Quartet' specifically means four, so it never refers to fewer or more individuals or items.
We grouped the chairs into a quartet around each table.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Contexts
A quartet can exist in different domains, like literature with four related books, or art with four paintings.
She completed her fantasy quartet with an epic final novel.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Music
While 'quartet' often refers to music groups, it can also describe any four people or things together.
The four athletes formed a winning quartet in the relay race.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Number
'Quartet' specifically means four, so it never refers to fewer or more individuals or items.
We grouped the chairs into a quartet around each table.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Contexts
A quartet can exist in different domains, like literature with four related books, or art with four paintings.
She completed her fantasy quartet with an epic final novel.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Music
While 'quartet' often refers to music groups, it can also describe any four people or things together.
The four athletes formed a winning quartet in the relay race.
Pro Tip 2/3Fixed Number
'Quartet' specifically means four, so it never refers to fewer or more individuals or items.
We grouped the chairs into a quartet around each table.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety of Contexts
A quartet can exist in different domains, like literature with four related books, or art with four paintings.
She completed her fantasy quartet with an epic final novel.
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One is one ... or is it?
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two three to two chairs gone and my quartet of diners are still off the deck
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Why would anyone hire you over your competition? If you can't answer that question, neither can your potential clients, which means you can't charge more for the thing that makes your work special. Price becomes a differentiator, and bidding becomes a race to the bottom. What sets you apart could be what you do, why you do it or how you do a string quartet that arranges and plays hip-hop medleys
Video examples
One is one ... or is it?
we take a bunch of things, we put them together to make a bigger thing, like a dozen eggs. We take 12 eggs, put them together to make a group, and we call that group a dozen. A dozen eggs is a composed unit. Other examples of composed units include a deck of cards, a pair of shoes, a jazz quartet
Video examples
Music gives voice to the...
a cultural ambassador and a collaborator who's deeply integrated in the communities that he or she serves I compose music for symphony orchestras and string quartets but I grew up listening to all kinds of great pop and folk music too and I'm constantly bringing that same directness of
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DJ Spooky's Arctic...
How do we figure on the role of apps and design in a modern sensibility with a composer who is very intrigued by data? So, I came up with an iPad app and what we are going to be doing now is essentially as a virtual string quartet with two turntables, violin and cello.
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My family’s musical...
forward there was always music in the o'reilly household my humble outside base upright washtub didn't matter he wanted to play bass my uncle Denny belongs to the Society for the preservation and encouragement a barbershop quartet singing in America
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The Secret of Musical...
it was absolutely phenomenal what comes next is a career that alters history music seems to pour out of mozart symphonies operas concertos string quartets piano sonatas and more unlike beethoven and other brilliant
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How we can navigate the...
depression I just love bleeding for the sake of loving beauty but some I also believe and I don't know whether this resonates with anyone but I don't know if you've listened for instance the late quartets
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Go Ahead, Dream About...
and you think that we're in a noisy sports bar, and I think we're in a highbrow salon with a string quartet talking about Baudrillard. I can't possibly imagine what might go wrong in that scenario.
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DJ Spooky Mixes Media to...
information could you actually take a conversation with a scientist and turn it into a string quartet could you take topography of shattered glaciers and turn that into composition
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Human Pyramid PIPE National...
two three to two chairs gone and my quartet of diners are still off the deck
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Nat Wolff
American Actor
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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Yo-Yo Ma
American Musician
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.
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B. B. King
American Musician
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian Composer
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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Joshua Bell
American Musician
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
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James Oliver
British Politician
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
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Boz Scaggs
American Musician
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
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Jeffrey Tate
English Musician
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
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Adrian Belew
American Musician
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
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Nat Wolff
American Actor
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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Yo-Yo Ma
American Musician
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.
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B. B. King
American Musician
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian Composer
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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Joshua Bell
American Musician
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
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James Oliver
British Politician
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
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Boz Scaggs
American Musician
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
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Jeffrey Tate
English Musician
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
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Adrian Belew
American Musician
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
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