A string quartet typically consists of two violins of viola and a cello. That's not to be confused with a wind quintet, which typically has a flute, an oboe, a clarinet,

a French horn, and a bass quinet, a French horn, and a bass quinet,

which is two trumpets, trombone, horn, and tuba, or a jazz

quintet which can pretty much be made up of five musicians playing whatever instruments they want. one. And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, about Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that

you've joined me to talk about music made by piano trios, barber shop

quartets, brass quintets, jazz sex tets, string septets, and sometimes

octets, no nets, and beyond.

We're going to be talking about a song with a great string arrangement in it and I'm very

excited to dig in so find a comfortable place to sit, turn up the volume, and enjoy

the show.

Back when I was in school, I played in a really cool modern jazz no net that was basically

just the horns, it was like a jazz rhythm section with enough horns to make

it nine players and I remember once when I was in high school playing a piece that was

written for a saxophone octet which was kind of two saxophone quartets if I recall correctly, but the piece was actually arranged for all the saxophones, which was pretty cool.

Also when I was in music school I played in a fantastic saxophone quartet, which usually a Barry, Alto, Tener, and soprano saxophone.

And man saxophone quartet music is really cool.

It was a great exercise for us.

We formed a new group when I was a senior actually of more advanced

players and played some pretty advanced sax quartet repertoire for people like

Dave Leibman and Jim McNeely. Some really hip stuff to have very fun.

And when you're playing on a sex quartet,

you've kind of got a fly on your own.

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