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Classical Net Review - Shostakovich - Piano Quintet, Piano Trio #2 (1602 words) |
 | Shostakovich seems to have followed two different paths - one representing the public rhetoric and a striving for the epic or the theatric, the other more inward, even psychological. |
| As to the Piano Quintet, the mystery critic and I must be listening to two different works. |
| The movement doesn't rise to the passion of its counterpart in the quintet, and consequently serves as a kind of bitter relief. |
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Quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (438 words) |
| In classical instrumental music, any additional instrument (such as a piano, clarinet, oboe, etc.) joined to the usual string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), gives the resulting ensemble its name, such as "piano quintet", "clarinet quintet", etc. A piece of music written for such a group is similarly named. |
| In jazz music a quintet is any group of five players, usually containing a drum set (pedal bass, snaredrum sometimes brushed, and top hat and brushed cymbals), string bass or electric bass, and groups of one or two of the following instruments, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, or trombone. |
| In some modern bands there are quintets formed from the same family of instruments with various voices, as an all brass ensemble, or all saxophones, in soprano, alto, baritone, and bass, and sometimes double bass. |
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