List of musical quartets

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A quartet is a common ensemble in musical history. Barbershop music is noted for having quartets and string quartets are also a noted kind of quartet.

Contents 1 Genres often associated with quartets 1.1 Classical 1.2 Barbershop 2 Other genres 2.1 Jazz 2.2 R&B/Soul 2.3 Pop/Rock 2.4 Celtic & Folk Music 2.5 Electronic music 2.6 Gospel and other Christian music 2.7 Rap and Hip-Hop 2.8 Heavy Metal 2.9 Other

[edit] Genres often associated with quartets

[edit] Classical

• Aeolian Quartet
• Alban Berg Quartet
• Alberni Quartet
• Allegri Quartet
• Amadeus Quartet
• Amati Quartet
• Arditti Quartet
• Australian String Quartet
• Aviv String Quartet
• Balanescu Quartet
• Belcea Quartet
• Bond (band)
• Borodin Quartet
• Brentano Quartet
• Brodsky Quartet
• Budapest Quartet
• Carmine Quartet
• Corvinus Quartet
• Coull Quartet
• Del Sol Quartet
• Duke Quartet
• Emerson String Quartet
• ETHEL
• Festetics String Quartet
• Flux Quartet
• Gabrieli Quartet
• Guarneri Quartet
• Hagen Quartet
• Juilliard String Quartet
• Kopelman Quartet
• Kronos Quartet
• Lindsay Quartet
• Melos Quartet
• Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
• Salomon Quartet
• Shanghai String Quartet
• Silesian String Quartet
• Smetana Quartet
• Smith Quartet
• Solaris Quartet
• Takács Quartet
• Tokyo String Quartet
• RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
• Vegh Quartet
• Vermeer Quartet
• Vertavo String Quartet
• Ysaÿe Quartet

[edit] Barbershop

• Acoustix, 1990 International Quartet Champions
• The Buffalo Bills, 1950 International Quartet Champions, appeared in stage and screen productions of The Music Man, frequently appeared on Arthur Godfrey's radio show
• The Dapper Dans of Disneyland, regularly appearing at Disneyland, as The Be Sharps in a Simpsons episode, and as the Singing Busts in Disney's 2003 Haunted Mansion movie
• The Gas House Gang, 1993 International Quartet Champions from St. Louis, Missouri
• The Haydn Quartet, early 1900s quartet
• FRED, 1999 International Quartet Champions, comedy quartet
• Platinum, 2000 International Quartet Champions
• Michigan Jake, 2001 International Quartet Champions
• Power Play, 2003 International Quartet Champions
• Gotcha!, 2004 International Quartet Champions
• Realtime, 2005 International Quartet Champions
• Metropolis, International Medalist Quartet (2002-2006), 1998 Grand National A Cappella Champions (Harmony Sweepstakes), Popular Comedy Quartet

[edit] Other genres

[edit] Jazz

• The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
• The Bolla Quartet
• Dave Brubeck quartet
• Hoosier Hot Shots
• James Taylor Quartet

[edit] R&B/Soul

• 112
• The 411
• 4 Tunes
• All-4-One
• Boys II Men
• Destiny's Child in the initial formation

• En Vogue
• The Four Tops
• Pointer Sisters
• Shai (band)

[edit] Pop/Rock

• 4-4-1
• 4 Non Blondes
• ABBA
• Alkatrazz-British hard rock.
• All Saints
• As Fast As-Pop-rock from Maine.
• Automatic Man
• The Bangles
• Bauhaus
• The Beatles-Nicknamed "the Fab Four."
• Boney M
• The Castells
• The Chordettes-"Girl group", relational to "barbershop music", but usually counted as 50s pop.
• The Corrs
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
• The Dandy Warhols
• The Doors
• A Flock of Seagulls
• Garbage
• Guano Apes-German alternative rock.
• The Kinks in their classic formation
• KISS
• Led Zeppelin
• Manda and the Marbles-Pop/punk
• The Mamas & the Papas
• Moby Grape
• The Monkees
• New Order

• Pink Floyd (1968-1979)
• The Pixies
• The Pretenders
• Queen
• Quiet Riot
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Sex Pistols
• Shades of Pale
• Stupid-Punk
• Talking Heads
• Traffic
• U2
• V Shape Mind

[edit] Celtic & Folk Music

• Celtae-Celtic
• The Lovin' Spoonful-Folk/Folk-rock
• Mithril-Celtic
• The Weavers (Eric Darling sometimes filled in for Pete Seeger, so is counted as a fifth member, but essentially a quartet)

[edit] Electronic music

• Kraftwerk

[edit] Gospel and other Christian music

• The Gospel Harmony Boys
• Point of Grace
• Spirit of Memphis Quartet
• The Staple Singers - also recorded some secular music

[edit] Rap and Hip-Hop

• The Black Eyed Peas
• Boyz N Da Hood
• Cypress Hill
• Public Enemy

[edit] Heavy Metal

• Abscess
• Arch Enemy
• At the Gates
• Black Sabbath
• Blind Guardian
• Bloodbath
• Celtic Frost
• Damageplan
• Demonlord
• Goatwhore
• Kreator
• Hypocrisy
• Iced Earth
• Manowar
• Mayhem
• Megadeth
• Metallica
• Melechesh
• Mudvayne
• Napalm Death
• Necrodeath
• Nightwish
• Obliveon
• Pantera
• Sex Machineguns -- before they broke up
• Six Feet Under
• Skinless
• Slayer
• Van Halen

[edit] Other

• The Avalon Boys