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Wedding Quartets in Milton Keynes

A selection of wedding quartets in Milton Keynes on this wedding music web site

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Here are some our wedding quartets in different parts of the UK. View wedding quartets in Milton Keynes select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

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Wedding quartets and composers

Some composers considered the wedding quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble and wrote some of their best works for the quartet. Other musical works have been transcribed for he quartet, including orchestral, vocal and even pop and jazz pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Joseph Waters (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882; age 60); Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903; age 80); Edouard Lalo (1823-1892; age 69); Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (1823-1874; age 50); Stefan Hakenberg (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Aldo Brizzi (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Daron Hagen (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Joseph Jongen (1873-1953; age 79); Déodat de Séverac (1873-1921; age 47); Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens (1823-1881; age 58);

What has been written about Wedding Quartets. Milton Keynes

Literature has many references about wedding quartets and their instruments. Here are some examples-

The gentlemen in private meeting . . . played three, four and five parts with viols . . . and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common fiddler, and could not endure that it should come among them for fear of making their meetings to be vain and fiddling. Anthony Wood (1632—95) Antiquities, 1674

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Milton Keynes

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Quartets you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our talented and adaptable Wedding Quartets have extensive repertoires enabling them to play appropriate music for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; Molly on the Shore; The Muppet Show Theme; Gershwin - Summertime ; Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger; Oasis – Wonderwall; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Sullivan - The Mikado; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins);