Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

The quartet became especially popular with college-age audiences, often performing in college settings like on their ground-breaking 1953 album Jazz at Oberlin at Oberlin College, or on their recordings on the campuses of Ohio University and the University of Michigan, among others.

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

The trio became a quartet between 2003 and 2006 when Alvin Smedley moved in next-door to Nora Batty, but returned to the usual threesome in 2006 when Billy Hardcastle left the show.

Since its establishment, the sonata form became the most common form in the first movement of works entitled " sonata ", as well as other long works of classical music, including the symphony, concerto, string quartet, and so on.

Claudius's poem Death and the Maiden was used by composer Franz Schubert in 1817 for one of his most celebrated songs, which in turn became the basis for the 1824 string quartet of the same name.

The quartet became a quintet when their manager Brooke Payne insisted on bringing in his nephew Ronnie DeVoe, to complete the group.

Bread became a quartet with their second album, On the Waters ( peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 ), bringing in Botts as drummer.

Later, they became a quartet with Milano, D ' Aleo, Gradus, and Daniel Elliott ( née Rubado, ex-The Monterays, Glenn Miller Orchestra ) who joined in 1974.

He became the first jazz pianist to double on celeste ( starting in 1936 ) and was featured on that instrument on a Blue Note quartet date with Edmond Hall and Charlie Christian.

All four ITA franchisees were expected to make losses in the first few years of operation but Granada's was a significant sum of £ 175, 000 ( nearly £ 3. 5m in 2011 ) and when it became profitable it had the lowest profits of the quartet.

-Student quartet of J. D: Behrens arrested ( and became popular )

The quartet changed its name to Quatuor de Saxophones de Paris, but later became referred to as simply the Quatuor Marcel Mule.

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records.

With the immediate addition of Károly to their group the trio became a quartet.

Also in 2005, the quartet became associate artists at the South Bank Centre.

They are based in Harlow, Essex where they became established in the 1960s as the town's " quartet in residence ", and by the mid-1970s had become world renowned.

His senior year, Cantrell became choir president, and the quartet sang the national anthem at basketball games and won competitions with the highest marks achievable.

As jazz became more popular in the 1930s, one of the rising stars was the talented violinist Svend Asmussen ( born 1916 ) who made his first recordings in 1934 at the age of 18 and was still playing with his quartet more than 70 years later.

So the quartet became a trio consisting of Stacy, Stefanie, and Renee.

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

In 1996, the band finally found a permanent gay drummer in the form of Luis Illades and became a quartet in 1997 with the addition of lead guitarist Patrick Goodwin.

In Colombia, the traditional quartet includes a range of instruments too, from the small bandola ( sometimes known as the Deleuze-Guattari, for use when traveling or in confined rooms or spaces ), to the slightly larger tiple, to the full sized classical guitar.

The only known U. S. drag quartet is The Kinsey Sicks.

* British — Beamish, Sally: Commedia ( 1990 ; mixed quintet ; theater piece without actors, in which Pierrot is portrayed by violin ); Biberian, Gilbert: Variations and Fugue on " Au Clair de la Lune " ( 1967 ; wind quartet ), Pierrot: A Ballet ( 1978 ; guitar duo ); Musgrave, Thea, Pierrot ( 1985 ; for clarinet, violin, and piano ; inspired dance by Jennifer Muller above under # Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance | Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance ); Redgate, Roger: Pierrot on the Stage of Desire ( 1998 ; for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion — known as the " Pierrot ensemble ", comprising the instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire below ).

Austin performed with the Pawnee Four, a barbershop quartet known in central Illinois.

He also studied music with Johann Polischansky during his apprenticeship and eventually managed to secure a place in a local orchestra of Michael Pamer which he eventually left in order to join a popular string quartet known as the Lanner Quartet formed by his would-be rival Joseph Lanner and the Drahanek brothers, Karl and Johann.

By his early teens, he had already taught himself to play piano and had formed his own gospel vocal quartet, known as " The Jubilee Boys ", that sang at church functions.

He is best known for three sets of concerti grossi, his Opus 2 ( 1732 ), Opus 3 ( 1733 ) and Opus 7 ( 1746 ), ( there are 42 concerti in all ) which introduce the viola as a member of the concertino group of soloists, making them essentially concerti for string quartet.

In decades past, legendary spin bowlers — most notably the Indian spin quartet of the 1960s and 1970s, consisting of left-armer Bedi, offspinners Prasanna and Venkataraghavan, and legspinner Chandrasekhar — routinely toyed with visiting teams to plot dramatic victories for India in home test matches, particularly on turning pitches in hot, humid conditions at Eden Gardens in Kolkata ( then known as Calcutta ) and Chepauk in Chennai ( then known as Madras ).

While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice, and ballet.

The first tour in support of the Blinking Lights album, billed as Eels with Strings, featured primarily acoustic guitar -, organ-and piano-based performances by E backed by Allen ' Big Al ' Hunter on piano and upright bass ; Jeffrey Lyster ( also known as Chet Atkins III or ' The Chet ') on guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, musical saw and drums ; and the string quartet of violinists Paloma Udovic and Julie Carpenter, violist Heather Lockie and cellist Ana Lenchantin.

He is well known as a longtime member of the famous Jiangnan sizhu music performance quartet consisting of Lu Chunling, Zhou Hao, Zhou Hui, and Ma Shenglong.

In 1929, she took dancing lessons at the Theatre Girls Club in Soho in London's West End and she later became a renowned tap dancer and founder member of a quartet known as Four Brilliant Blondes.

The autograph manuscript for this quartet is inscribed " October 1810 ", but the paper on which it appears does not match the variety Beethoven is known to have used at that time.

The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their " less adventurous " but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet.

The Toy Dolls formed as a quartet featuring vocalist Pete " Zulu " Robson, guitarist ; Michael Algar also known as Olga ( born 21 September 1962, South Shields, England ) drummer ; Colin " Mr. Scott " Scott ; and bassist Phillip " Flip " Dugdale.

The quartet was known as the Clancy Brothers and Eddie Dillon.

Lucia Mannucci ( 18 May 1920 – 6 March 2012 ) was an Italian singer, best known as one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, an Italian vocal quartet.

Mortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name, which is also known as the Hungry City Chronicles in the United States.

Frederick " Fred " Jones ( also known as " Freddy " from A Pup Named Scooby Doo ) is a fictional character in the American television animated series Scooby-Doo, about a quartet of teenage mystery solvers and their Great Dane companion, Scooby-Doo.

Other groups, such as the Dixie Hummingbirds and the Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama ( formally known as the Happyland Jubilee Singers ) that had begun singing in the conventional jubilee style went further, creating the more improvisational and fervent style of quartet singing known as " hard Gospel ".

Southern Gospel music — at one time also known as " quartet music "— is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.