Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

This process placed a premium on chamber music for more public performance, giving a further boost to the string quartet and other small ensemble groupings.

Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.

Puccini also wrote orchestral pieces, sacred music, chamber music and songs for voice and piano, most notably his 1880 mass Messa di gloria and his 1890 string quartet Crisantemi.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

The Kneisel quartet | Kneisel String Quartet, led by Franz Kneisel, is an example of chamber music.

Phish's music blends elements of a wide variety of genres, including rock, jazz, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, funk, folk, bluegrass, reggae, country, blues, avant garde, barbershop quartet and classical.

Another common type of Western art music quartet is the piano quartet, consisting of violin, viola, cello, and piano.

Saxophone Quartet literature is limited and most of the traditional style classical sheet music is transcribed from string quartet charts.

The quartet lineup is very common in pop and rock music.

A standard quartet formation in pop and rock music is an ensemble consisting of two electric guitars, a bass guitar, and a drum kit.

In the Western art music tradition, vocal music arranged for four singers in an opera or choral work is referred to as a quartet.

In 20th century US popular music, the term " vocal quartet " is used to refer to ensembles of four singers, usually of the same sex.

Mozart was a versatile composer, and wrote in every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata.

ATBB may be seen in some barbershop quartet music.

It was the famous quartet of Chinnayya, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivelu of the Tanjore Court during the Marathi King Saraboji ’ s time ( 1798 – 1824 ) which made a rich contribution to music and Bharatanatyam and also completed the process of re-editing the Bharathanatyam programme into its present shape with its various forms like the Alarippu, Jathiswaram, Sabdham, Varnam, Tillana etc.

The quartet of Chinnayya, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivelu of the Tanjore Court, during the rule of Maratha King Saraboji II ( 1798 – 1832 ), made a rich contribution to music and Bharatanatyam and also completed the process of re-editing the Bharathanatyam programme into its present shape with its various items.

A quartet made five by a trumpet player, Cake carry themselves with the snittiness of technically proficient, lyrically aware music lovers, who are almost anachronistically untrendy and brazenly proud of it ".

The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the late 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.

Musique concrète (, meaning " concrete music ") is a form of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound.

Ska (, Jamaican ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

Greek Hip Hop (, ), is the chief genre of rap music in Greece.

In Greek religion and mythology, Pan (, Pān ) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs.

In music, solfège (, also called solfeggio, sol-fa, solfedge, or solfa ) is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable ( or " sol-fa syllable ").

Macross (, not *) is a science fiction series that combines transformable mecha, apocalyptic battles, wartime romance, and music.

César Antonovich Cui (, Tsezar ' Antonovič Kjui ) ( 13 March 1918 ) was a Russian composer and music critic of French and Lithuanian descent.

Conjunto (, group ) literally translates as " group ," and is regionally accepted in Texas as defining a genre of music ( also known as Conjunto music ) that was born out of south Texas at the end of the 19th Century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.

Iannis Xenakis (, Greek: Γιάννης Ξενάκης ) ( May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001 ) was a Greek composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer.

Fado (, " destiny, fate ") is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins.

(, ) was a Russian dance music duo composed of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova ( alternative spelling: Julia Volkova ).

The Gerogerigegege (, ) is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi (), who runs and maintains the Vis a Vis record label in Japan.

Kathakali (, ) is a highly stylized classical Indian dance-drama noted for the attractive make-up of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and well-defined body movements presented in tune with the anchor playback music and complementary percussion.

Schlager music (, loosely translated as " a hit ") is a style of popular music prevalent in Central and Northern Europe and the Balkans ( in particular Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Flanders, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the Baltic States ) and also ( to a lesser extent ) in France and Poland.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (, Aleksandr Vasilevich Aleksandrov ) ( — 8 July 1946 ) was a Russian Soviet composer, the founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the national anthem of the Soviet Union, which, in 2001, became the anthem of Russia ( with new lyrics ).

A pancharatna kriti (,,, Kannada: ಪ ಂ ಚರತ ್ ನ ಕ ೃ ತ ಿ, Malayalam: പഞ ് ചരത ് ന ക ൃ ത ി Sanskrit pancha-five & ratna-gem ) is one of a set of five kritis ( songs ) in Carnatic classical music, composed by the 19th century Indian composer, Tyagaraja.

Filmi (, " of films ") is Indian popular music as written and performed for Indian cinema ( though " filmi " means may refer to other uses such as ' filmi actor ' or ' filmi attitude ').

Verbunkos (, other spellings are Verbounko, Verbunko, Verbunkas, Werbunkos, Werbunkosch, Verbunkoche ) is an 18th-century Hungarian dance and music genre.

Sayed Darwish (, ; March 17, 1892 – September 15, 1923 ) was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music and one of their greatest musicians and their single greatest composer.

The music of Palestine (, al-musiqa-l-filastaniyya, " the Palestinian music ") is one of many regional sub-genres of Arabic music.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

) The stated goal of the CJS is the synthesis of jazz and `` serious '' music.

His approach to music is highly individualistic ; ;

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

The music is always allowed the living space needed to attain its full sonority ; ;

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

This is precisely what makes lucid, straightforward music so difficult to compose -- the clarity must be new, not old ''.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

and perhaps of even greater significance -- his music is strong 20th-Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution, based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

I think all this could apply to Parker just as well, although, because of the nature of music, it is not demonstrable -- at least not conclusively.

This is exactly what happened in the transition from baroque to rococo music.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.