Explore: String Sextets (viols (6))

Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and John Woolrich. Slightly larger sextets written for piano, string quartet, and double bass have been written by Felix Mendelssohn

the music of his native Bohemia. In 14 string quartets, three string quintets, two piano quartets, a string sextet, four piano trios, and numerous other

today usually refers to the lowest-pitched instrument of the viols, a family of stringed instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th

(1977) Quartet No. 2 for Recorders (1977) String Quartet No. 5 in one movement (1978) Suite for three Viols (1978–1979) Prelude and Dance for Clarinet

featured the viola. Among his first published pieces of chamber music, the sextets for strings Op. 18 and Op. 36 contain what amounts to solo parts for both

Paton – bass Morris Pert – percussion Adam Skeaping – viol, string arrangements Jo Skeaping – string arrangements John Sheahan – fiddle, whistle Bill Somerville-Large

treble viol, two tenor viols, bass viol Calm (1992) 9 mins; flute, oboe, clarinet (or viola), violin, cello PUMP (1992) 7 mins; 4 bassoons Sextet for Piano

Mirrors for Violin and Cello (2013) Insects in Amber String Quartet (2010) Surrounded Ground for Sextet (2008) A Conflict of Opposites for Violin or Clarinet

Walter Piston and Roger Sessions. His works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti for violin, viola, and double bass. Harbison won

pf] for orchestra (1983-2006) Purcell: Fantazia no. 7 (Z.738) [orig. 4 viols] for 3 guitars (2000) Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit [orig. pf] for orchestra