The Easy and Intermediate lists below have been compiled from suggestions by viola mailing list members.
These two lists are followed by the ABRSM Syllabuses for String Quartet.
Easy Quartets.
Intermediate Quartets
ABRSM Syllabuses
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EASY
QUARTETS
(UK Grades 2 to 3, ASTA Grades 1 to 2)
Auton : (5 sets) :
Aunt Nan and the Old Man.
Classics for Strings, Set 1.
Folk Songs for Strings. Sets 1, 2, and 3.
Musicland
Applebaum. Chamber Music for String Orchestra. Books One and
Two
Belwin Mills
Baker. All at Sea (sea shanties)
Spartan Press
Burgoyne. Suite of the Day
Boosey and Hawkes
Irma Clarke. Introduction to String Quartets Book 1, Classics
Boston
Dale : (4 sets) :
J.S.Bach. Favourites
Beethoven. Favourites
Elgar Favourites
Schubert. Favourites
Piper Publications
Etling Quartet Series :
Haydn String Quartets.
Edmund Siennicki (ed.) 7 Easy Quartets.
Highland/Etling
Alfred Fischer. Peace Variations for Strings
Seesaw
Gange : (4 sets) :
Handel. Favourites
Mozart. Favourites
Purcell. Favourites
Sullivan. Favourites
Piper Publications
Herfurth. A Tune A Day, Book Two (items marked string quartet/
ensemble)
Boston Music Co
Herfurth. Early Classics for Beginning String Quartet
Boston
Hewitt-Jones : (2 sets) :
Grumpy Grasshoppers.
Hidden Rhymes.
Musicland
Kember. Classical Pieces for String Quartet.
Schott
Lumsden.Susato for Strings, Sets 1, 2, and 3.
Musicland
Munday. Arco Anthems
Spartan Press
Sheila Nelson : (3 sets) :
Tunes for my String Quartet.
Quartet Club : Books One and Two.
Boosey and Hawkes
Pejtsik and Vigh. Classical Quartet Music for Beginners (First
position)
Editio Musica Budapest
Praetorius. Dances from Terpsichore
Musicland
Turner. Christmas Quartets.
Schott
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INTERMEDIATE
QUARTETS
(UK Grades 4 to 6, ASTA Grades 3 to 4)
Auton : (2 sets) :
Classics for Strings, Set 2.
Up and Back a Double (Country Dances).
Musicland
Irma Clarke : (2 sets) :
Introduction to String Quartets Book 2, Classics.
String Music of the Baroque Era for String Quartet.
Boston Music
Bach. Bach for Strings, arr. Irma Clarke
Schirmer
Dale : (4 sets) :
Beethoven Favourites, Level 2.
Elgar Favourites, Level 2.
Schubert Favourites, Level 2.
Tchaikovsky Favourites, Level 2.
Piper Publications
Forest Etling (ed.) Three Famous String Quartets (Schubert,
Tchaikovksy)
Highland/ Etling
Watson Forbes (ed.) Easy String Quartets, Books 1, 2 and 3
Chester
Gange : (5 sets) :
J.S.Bach Favourites, Level 2
Handel Favourites, Level 2.
Mozart Favourites, Level 2.
Purcell Favourites, Level 2.
Sullivan Favourites, Level 2.
Piper Publications
Gazebo Series for String Quartet : (5 sets) :
Alexander's RagTime Band.
Amazing Grace.
Gay Nineties Medley.
Tiger Rag.
Vaudeville Spectacular.
Musicians Publications
Glazunov, Liadov, Kimsky-Korsakov. Festive Moods
Quartet
Kalmus
Charles Hambourg.
Quartet No.1 in D
Quartet No.2 in F
Lengnick
Angela Hewitt-Jones : (6 sets) :
Ragtime, Serenade and Rumba.
Birds of a Feather.
The Great Western.
Hidden Carols.
The Mary Rose.
The Spider's Web.
Musicland
William McConnell : (7 sets) :
Handel with care.
Highland Whisky : Reels and Strathspeys.
Irish Mist.
The North and The South : Tunes from the American Civil War.
Reel Fiddlin'.
The Ship's Fiddler, Sea Songs and Shanties.
Wheal Friendly (Cornish Folk Tunes).
Spartan Press
Bernard McWilliams. Medley of Russian Folk Songs
Boston
Etling String Quartet Series
Mozart String Quartets
Highland/ Etling
Mozart. Quartet for Strings, arr. Bowen
Shawnee
Munday. Arco Amadeus
Spartan Press
Paradise : (6 sets) :
The Best of Beethoven.
The Best of Corelli.
The Best of Haydn.
The Best of Mozart.
The Best of Schubert.
The Best of Johann Strauss Jr. Waltzes
Belwin/ Warner
Pejtsik. Easy Classic String Quartets.
Editio Musica Budapest
Michael Rose. Cantilena
Fentone
Schubert.
Five German Dances with Coda and Seven Trios.
Five Minuets with Six Trios.
Kalmus
Vernon Taranto Jr. (arr.) Christmas Album, six popular carols
Latham
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The ABRSM issues syllabuses for string quartet at three levels of difficulty.
PRIMARY level Quartets
(UK Grades 4 to 5)
J. S. Bach Contrapunctus no.1 (from 'The Art of Fugue')
from Easy String Quartets, Book 3, arr. Forbes
Chester/Music Sales
Johann Fischer Tafelmusik Suite
Baerenreiter
Charles Hambourg String Quartet no.2 in F
Lengnick/William Elkin
Locke Suite no.3 in C
from Locke 4 Suites
Peters
Purcell Chaconne (from 'King Arthur')
from Easy String Quartets, Book 1, arr. Forbes
Chester/Music Sales
INTERMEDIATE level Quartets
(UK Grades 6 to 7)
Beethoven Prelude and Fugue in F
Nagel/Baerenreiter
Boccherini String Quartet in D minor, Op.10 no.2
from Boccherini Quartets
Peters
Mozart String Quartet in C, K.157
from Mozart 13 Early Quartets, Book 1
Baerenreiter
Purcell Fantasia a 4 in G, Z.742
from Purcell Fantasias and In Nomines
Novello/Music Sales
C. Stamitz Quartetto Concertante in G
Schott/M.D.S.
ADVANCED level Quartets
(UK Grade 8)
Beethoven String Quartet in D, Op.18 no.3
from Beethoven Quartets, Vol.1
Peters
Borodin String Quartet no.2 in D
Belaieff/Peters
Dvorak String Quartet in F 'The American', Op.96
Simrock/Schauer
Haydn String Quartet in D, Hob.III/34
Doblinger-Kalmus/M.D.S.
Schubert String Quartet in A minor, Op.29 no.1, D.804
from Schubert Quartets, Vol.1
Peters