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Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: voc pf

Shades of silence : string quartet, 1985 / Caroline Ansink

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

Piccolo quartetto a corde : per violino I, violino II, viola, violoncello / Harold C. King

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

4e quatuor à cordes : = 4de strijkkwartet, (1953) / Oscar van Hemel

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

composition

Elegy : for string quartet / Ross James Carey

Other authors:
Carey, Ross James (Composer)
Description:
Elegy for string quartet was composed in April 2005 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a few months after the Indian Ocean tsunami of the 26th of December 2004, which caused such a large loss of life in many countries in that region. It is dedicated to the memory of those who perished at that time.
Over a murmuring ostinato in the viola and cello, the two violins articulate an impassioned declaration of loss, before the piece comes to a gentle close.