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Reich rescored it in 1983 to make performance easier, by adding a second string quartet, and retitling the work Eight Lines. The additional two violins solve "the difficulty of playing rather awkward double stops in tune," and the additional viola and cello "allow the rapid eighth-note patterns to be broken up between ... two players" to ...
Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music.Although eight-part scoring was fairly common for serenades and divertimenti in the 18th century, the word "octet" only first appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, as the title of a composition by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, whose Octet Op. 12 (published posthumously in 1808) features the piano ...
This category is for musical groups that consist of eight members total at some point, long enough for critics to describe them as octets. For compositions, see Category:Compositions for octet . Subcategories
The Octet for strings in C major, Op. 7, is an octet composition for string instruments by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1900. Together with the Octet in F major, Op. 17 (1849) by Niels Gade , it is regarded as amongst the most notable successors to Felix Mendelssohn 's celebrated Octet, Op. 20 .
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players. [1] It usually consists of four violins , two violas and two cellos , or four violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass .
VOCES8 is a British vocal ensemble originally founded in 2003 [1] and regrouped in 2005 [2] by brothers Paul and Barnaby Smith, both former choristers of Westminster Abbey. [3] [4] For most of its history, the ensemble has contained two sopranos, two countertenors, two tenors, a baritone and a bass. [1]
Louis Spohr's nonet was so successful that its instrumentation became the standard for subsequent emulation down to the present time. The many composers who wrote for this combination include Louise Farrenc (Op. 38, 1849), Georges Onslow (Op. 77, 1851), Franz Lachner (Nonet in F major 1875), Josef Rheinberger (Op. 139, 1884), and Tilo Medek (Nonet in Nine Movements, 1974).
In acoustical analysis, a one-third octave band is defined as a frequency band whose upper band-edge frequency ( f 2 or f max ) is the lower band frequency ( f 1 or f min ) times the tenth root of ten, [4] or 1.2589 : The first of the one-third octave bands ends at a frequency 125.9% higher than the starting frequency for all of them, the base ...