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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quartet
noun
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■ NOUN
string
▪ There was a party in the ballroom: sparkling chandeliers, string quartet.
▪ Remember those glittering parties, the lanterns lining the drive, the string quartet playing Viennese waltzes?
▪ Jacqui watched from a distance as they drank iced coffee and danced to the string quartet.
▪ Mind has waited for 3 billion years on this planet before composing its first string quartet.
▪ Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there.
▪ The string quartet within the orchestra resembles Faure.
▪ If he wanted to hear a string quartet there was no question of going out in the evening to a concert.
▪ Stravinsky was never at home with the warm homogeneity of the string quartet.
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▪ a jazz quartet
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▪ All over the country children worked in similar acts but this particular quartet, Les Jolies Petites, was fortunate.
▪ If the Hummel sparkled, their E flat Dvorak piano quartet - a riot of Czechoslovak charm - fairly glinted with riches.
▪ There was a barbershop quartet on board.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.)

    1. A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.

    2. The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.

  2. (Poet.) A stanza of four lines.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quartet

1773, "musical composition for four instruments or voices," from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, diminutive of quarto "fourth," from Latin quartus "fourth" (see quart). Meaning "set of four singers or musical performers" is from 1814.

Wiktionary
quartet

n. 1 (context music English) A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. 2 (context music English) The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts. 3 A group of four.

WordNet
quartet
  1. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe]

  2. four performers or singers who perform together [syn: quartette]

  3. a set of four similar things considered as a unit [syn: quartette, quadruplet]

  4. four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." [syn: quartette, foursome]

  5. a musical composition for four performers [syn: quartette]

Wikipedia
Quartet

In music, a quartet or quartette (, , , , ) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers; or a musical composition for four voices or instruments.

Quartet (1981 film)

Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins and Alan Bates, set in 1927 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Sélection Officielle (Official Selection). It was adapted from the novel by the same name by Jean Rhys.

Quartet (disambiguation)

A Quartet is a musical group of four people or a piece written for four musicians

Quartet may also refer to:

  • Quartet (1948 film), a 1948 film based on W. Somerset Maugham stories
  • Quartet (1981 film), starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, and Alan Bates
  • Quartet (2012 film), directed by Dustin Hoffman, starring Maggie Smith, and Michael Gambon, based on Ronald Harwood's play
  • Quartette (band), a Canadian country-folk vocal group
  • Quartet (Herbie Hancock album), 1982
  • Quartet (Ultravox album), 1982
  • Quartet (Bill Frisell album)
  • Quartet (Pat Metheny album), 1996
  • Quartets (Fred Frith album), 1994
  • Quartets (Boxhead Ensemble album), 2003
  • Quartet (Alison Brown album), 1996
  • Quartet (Billy Hart album), 2006
  • Quartet (Tony Rice and Peter Rowan album), 2007
  • Quartet (McCoy Tyner album), 2007
  • Quartet (Harwood), a 1999 play by Ronald Harwood
  • Quartet, a play by East German playwright Heiner Müller
  • Quartets (card game), a card game released by many companies
  • Quartet (video game), a 1986 video game by Sega
  • Quartet (sculpture), a 2008 public art work by Celine Farrell
  • Quartet on the Middle East, four entities involved in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Quartet (computing), 4 bits in computing
  • Quartet (also known as Postures), the first novel of Jean Rhys
Quartet (Herbie Hancock album)

Quartet is the thirty-fourth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, his first with the V.S.O.P. Quartet without Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. It was originally issued in Japan on CBS/Sony, and later given a US release by Columbia.

Quartet (Ultravox album)

Quartet is the sixth studio album by the British new wave band Ultravox. The album peaked at no.6 on the UK album chart and was certified Gold by the BPI in December 1982 for 100,000 copies sold. It also peaked at #13 in Germany, and at #61 in the United States.

Quartet (1948 film)

Quartet is a 1948 British anthology film with four segments, each based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Each segment is introduced by the author. It was successful enough to produce two sequels Trio (1950) and Encore (1951), and popularised the compendium film format, leading to films such as O. Henry's Full House in 1952.

The screenplays for the stories were all written by R. C. Sherriff.

Quartet (video game)

Quartet is a 1986 arcade game by Sega. Quartet allows one to four players to guide a set of characters through a base taken over by an army of robots. Players control either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) or Edgar (green) across a number of sideways-scrolling levels. The object of the game is to advance through the level, fighting opponents that come out of portals in the walls, and eventually defeat a boss that carries the door key used to open the "exit door" for the level.

Quartet (Harwood)

Quartet is a play by Ronald Harwood about aging opera singers.

The play, presented by Michael Codron, was first directed by Christopher Morahan at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford prior to its West End opening at the Albery Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) on 8 September 1999 starring Sir Donald Sinden, Alec McCowen, Stephanie Cole and Angela Thorne. Following a four-month run it closed on 8 January 2000.

A regional tour from June to August 2010 enjoyed success with Michael Jayston as Reggie, Timothy West as Wilfred, Susannah York as Jean, and Gwen Taylor as Cecily.

Quartet (Bill Frisell album)

Quartet is the eighth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1996 and features performances by Frisell, Ron Miles, Curtis Fowlkes and Eyvind Kang. Tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 12 are from Tales From the Far Side (1994), an animated television special created by Gary Larson. Tracks 3 and 13 are from the Italian film La scuola (1995) directed by Daniele Luchetti. Tracks 4 and 10 were written for the Buster Keaton film Convict 13 (1920).

Quartet (McCoy Tyner album)

Quartet is a live album by McCoy Tyner released on his McCoy Tyner Music label in 2007. It was recorded in December 2006 at Yoshi's in Oakland, California and features performances of by Tyner with Joe Lovano, Christian McBride and Jeff "Tain" Watts. The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos states that "In many ways this is a remarkable date, a well-paced program with all the pieces (save "For All We Know") timed at around ten minutes, proof positive that Tyner's game is still very much on, and hovering at a very high level".

Quartet (Pat Metheny album)

Quartet (1996) is an album by Pat Metheny Group. The album features Pat Metheny on guitar, bassist Steve Rodby, drummer Paul Wertico, Lyle Mays on keyboards. Most of the tracks were loosely written or improvised. The Pat Metheny Group never played these songs live, though Metheny played "When We Were Free" with his trio and recorded a live version on Daytrip. "As I Am" was played during trio concerts with Michael Brecker.

Quartet (Alison Brown album)

'Quartet ' is album by American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 1996.

Quartet (Tony Rice and Peter Rowan album)

Quartet is a second collaboration album of guitarists Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. On this record, the duo becomes a quartet with the addition of mandolinist Sharon Gilchrist and bassist Bryn Davies, both of whom sing as well. The band continues to deliver intimate, bluegrass-folk style music on a very high level.

Quartet (2012 film)

Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the play Quartet by Ronald Harwood, which ran in London's West End from September 1999 until January 2000. It was filmed late in 2011 at Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire. The film is actor Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut.

Quartet (sculpture)

Quartet is a public art work by artist Celine Farrell located on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The painted steel sculpture consists of four panels radiating out from a center point. Each panel is painted a different color and has shapes cut out to represent the four seasons. It is located at West Windlake Avenue and West Lincoln Avenue west of Kosciuszko Park in the Lincoln Village neighborhood. A derivative sculpture was created by recycling the cut away elements; this work is installed nearby at Ben's Cycle and Fitness, maker of Milwaukee Bicycles.

Quartet (fiction)

Quartet is the seventh short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published in February 2001 by NESFA Press and it contains four short stories.

Quartet (Müller)

Quartet is a play written by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller. The play was written in 1980.

Its subject matter rendered it unlikely for production under the GDR's repressive cultural policies, but Müller's status as the nation's most eminent playwright after the death of Berthold Brecht allowed him great leeway for travel, and so when the progressive director of the prestigious Schauspielhaus Bochum offered him and his director B. K. Tragelehn the chance to premier the work there, the GDR's cultural czars offered no objection. The casting was stellar: despite the profusion of eminent actors in the Bochum company, one of the leading actresses of the even more eminent Berliner Schaubühne Libgart Schwarz was asked to play "Merteuil" to the "Valmont" of the peripatetic Fassbinder collaborator Fritz Schediwy.

The play is in Müller's highly laconic late style: there no stage directions; punctuation is sparse, giving the text a bald, telegraphic affect despite the elaborate rhetoric of the often long speeches. No setting or time period are mentioned in the text, although the Bochum program book does offer the rubric "Time/place: salon before the French Revolution/bunker after the III World War". The undescribed "action" of the play compresses the main plot turns of Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel in letters Les liaisons dangereuses into a little more than an hour of "theater games" in which the two performers take turns playing Laclos' characters of weary rouė, scheming adulteress, virtuous wife, and innocent virgin. (Although the roles are usually played by man and woman, other productions have chosen to cast same-sex couples. or even an operatic version for single performer.

Despite its challenges to performers (and audiences), the play's strange balance between austerity and flamboyance has rendered it much the most performed of Müller's plays. The almost unlimited interpretive freedom offered by the text has made the work a favorite of adventurous and radical directors (among them Michael Haneke and Robert Wilson) while the virtuosity of the roles, combined with the lurid language and vivid imagery, has made the piece a party-piece for star performers, particularly in one-shot festival settings.

Usage examples of "quartet".

Outside, the happy and contented citizens of the accommodating world of New Riviera went about their daily concerns, unaware that in an ordinary hotel room not far from where they were walking and talking, a most unusual quartet was calmly discussing Armageddon.

Despite the numerous and well-armed guards, Don Humberto would not hear of his guest departing with less than a full squad of his own lancer-bodyguards, a quartet of servants, and a fully equipped and provided pack train to afford the estimable Conde Maylo de Morre security and civilized comforts on the long trek over the mountains.

Kashyyyk during the Yevethan crisis, Jowdrrl had retrofit a quartet of transparent optical transducer panels to enhance port and aft visibility.

A quartet of singers in Dickensian dress harmonized carols outside the ballroom door.

The man in the striped djellaba, a dozen yards down the street by now, turned and pounded across the pavement to join the quartet.

But beside the plain, finger-wide band all rising adults received gleamed a quartet of gems to be inset later.

From the sixth century Before the Common Era, the Pythian games, one of the great quartet of Panhellenic festivals, had been held in the third year of the Olympic cycle.

Or, I thought, before everything shuts at once, in a few hours, meaning spigots, accordions, piano lids, soloists, trios, quartets, pubs, sweet shops, and cinemas.

When we have learned how these are rearranged against randomness, to make, say, springtails, quantum mechanics, and the late quartets, we may have a clearer notion how to proceed.

Not seeing why a set of bonafide officers should gratuitously murder a chauffeur, I had been wondering whether the quartet might not be impostors, tricked out in uniforms to which they had no claim.

His cassations, quartets and trios may be compared to a pure, clear stream of water, the surface now rippled by a gentle breeze from the south, and anon breaking into agitated billows, but without ever leaving its proper channel and appointed course.

Of the string quartets and other instrumental compositions of the period nothing need be said.

While the pack of wolf-monkeys howled and gibbered toward Fulla, Skellum sent a quartet of man-sized millipedes scurrying after them.

Thus, in 1784, Prince Henry of Prussia sent him a gold medal and his portrait in return for the dedication of six new quartets, while in 1787 King Frederick William II gave him the famous gold ring which he afterwards always wore when composing.

Symphonies, divertimenti for concerted instruments, string quartets, a clavier trio, airs, a cantata, and other works were all produced at these concerts, and with almost invariable applause.