This is a list of pages with repertoire for
string instruments
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.
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Solo instruments
*Violin:
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Violin solo
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Violin and piano
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Violin concertos
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino pi ...
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Violin duo
*Viola:
**Viola solo
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Viola and piano
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Viola concertos
*Cello:
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Cello solo
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Cello and piano
**Cello ensemble pieces
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Cello concertos
*Double bass:
**Double bass solo
**Double bass and piano
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Double bass concertos
*Guitar:
**Guitar solo
**Guitar duo
**Guitar concertos
*Harp:
**Harp solo
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Harp concertos
*Harpsichord:
**Harpsichord solo
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Harpsichord concerto A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below). Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano (see '' piano concerto''). For a period in the late 18th cen ...
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*Piano:
**Piano solo
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Piano left-hand
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Piano duo
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Piano concertos
*Multiple solo instruments:
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Double concerto for violin and cello
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Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano
Chamber music
*Strings duos
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String trios
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String quartet
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two Violin, violini ...
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String quintet
A string quintet is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet ...
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String sextet
In european classical music, classical music, a string sextet is a composition written for six string instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such a composition. Most string sextets have been written for an ensemble consisting of two ...
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String octet
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players.Riemann, Hugo. Dictionary of Music'. Trans. J.A. Shedlock. Augener, 1900. 550. It usually consists of four violins, two violas and t ...
*String decet
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Piano trio
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in European classical music, classical chamber music. The term can also ...
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Piano quartet
A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin, viola and cello.
Piano quartets for ...
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Piano quintet
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Piano sextet
External links
String Instrument Katalog by HenleA reference source on the composers of the 18th century
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String instruments