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 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 Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math. Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024 At the ceremony, a string quartet featuring members of the Nashville Symphony performed, as did Kowalczyk herself, conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe, and student Carter Hammonds, who represented Warner Elementary. Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for string quartet 

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of string quartet was in 1875

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“String quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20quartet. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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