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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The bowing sounds of a string quartet open Faye Webster‘s Tiny Desk Concert.
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
If an ultra-aged expression is like a symphony, with each eaux-de-vie representing a single note, then artisan bottlings are more like a string quartet or a solo performance.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The new one is his third album with a string quartet (second with Mivos) and second full ensemble with no bass.
—Steve Hochman, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2025
But a few days before Christmas, a string quartet hauled its instruments up the hairpin stone pathway, into a Franklin Hills living room for a monthly house-show series.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
If an ultra-aged expression is like a symphony, with each eaux-de-vie representing a single note, then artisan bottlings are more like a string quartet or a solo performance.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The new one is his third album with a string quartet (second with Mivos) and second full ensemble with no bass.
—Steve Hochman, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2025
But a few days before Christmas, a string quartet hauled its instruments up the hairpin stone pathway, into a Franklin Hills living room for a monthly house-show series.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“String quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20quartet. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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