Interesting Musical Facts from 3MBS
Generally speaking, a quartet is a group of four. In
music, a quartet is a group of four people playing or singing four
different parts to make a piece of music, such as a string quartet or
a barbershop quartet.
In classical music, one of the most common combinations
of four instruments in chamber music is the string quartet. String
quartets most often consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The
particular choice and number of instruments derives from the
registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. In the
string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal
registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the
bass register.
