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Wedding Quartets in Oldbury-Smethwick

A selection of wedding quartets in Oldbury-Smethwick 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 Oldbury-Smethwick 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:- Muzio Clementi (1752-1832; age 80); Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814; age 61); William Duckworth (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Ross Edwards (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Marta Ptaszynska (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944; age 86); Hilda Sehested (1858-1936; age ca. 78); Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944; age 86); Mélanie (Mel) Bonis (1858-1937; age 79); Michael Gordon (1956-still alive 2003; age ca. 47); Morten Lauridsen (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Jacques Bank (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60);

What has been written about Wedding Quartets. Oldbury-Smethwick

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

The first requisite for a good ensemble is that each player shall have the sense of the whole. This he can only feel by listening to the others—constantly, whether he knows the music or is reading at sight. With practice, then, he becomes familiar with the other parts and is ready to adjust himself to them or to assert himself so that they can adjust themselves to him, but be can never afford to stop listening. Only by remaining acutely aware of what is being done about him can he be sensitized to the necessary degree

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Oldbury-Smethwick

Weddings - During the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast, our Wedding Quartets can set just the right atmosphere for your .

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

Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Autumn Leaves; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel;