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Pachelbel's Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the key of D major.
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
As of July 2015, Lumiere Records has released eight albums: six feature the Lumiere String Quartet, the house band for Lumiere Records, an album entitled Le Petit Mort is by the Lumiere Duo (violin and cello), and another album entitled String Quartet Wedding Music is by an unnamed string quartet.
Spektral Quartet is a string quartet based in Chicago comprising Clara Lyon (violin), Theo Espy (violin), Doyle Armbrust (viola) and Russell Rolen (cello). [1] The ensemble was founded in 2010 and was active until 2022. Spektral Quartet served as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Chicago's Department of Music from 2012 to 2018. [2]
Each of the Big Four was born around the turn of the century and came from a wealthy family in the Chicago area. Raised in luxury on their family's sprawling estates in Lake Forest, [4] [5] [6] the quartet enjoyed carefree lives consisting of polo, tennis, country-club flirtations and private-school feuds. [6]
String Quartet No. 20 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) String Quartet No. 6 (Schubert) String Quartet No. 7 (Schubert) String Quartet No. 3 (Mendelssohn) String Quartet (Franck) String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin) String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) String Quartet No. 3 (Dvořák) String Quartet No. 4 (Piston ...
String Quartet No. 3 (1983) Sound and Echo (Schall und Hall) for trombone and organ (1983) String Trio (1985, also arranged as Piano Trio, 1992) – shares a theme with the Cello Concerto No. 1 from 1986; Quartet for piano and strings (1988) String Quartet No. 4 (1989) Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan for solo violin or cello (1990)
Formed in 1978, the Laclede String Quartet (better known as the Laclede Quartet) is an all-female string quartet that plays popular as well as classical music.The Laclede Quartet was founded by violinist Sallie Coffman (now also concertmaster for the St. Louis Muny orchestra), and is from the Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, and Illinois area. [1]