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• Baldassarre, Antonio : "String Quartet: §4", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• Beaumont, Antony. 2001. "Zemlinsky [Zemlinszky], Alexander (von). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
• Eisen, Cliff: "String Quartet: §§1–3", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• Finscher, Ludwig: Joseph Haydn und seine Zeit (Laaber, Germany: Laaber, 2000).
• Griesinger, Georg August: Biographical Notes Concerning Joseph Haydn (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1810/1963). English translation by Vernon Gotwals, in Haydn: Two Contemporary Portraits (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press).^{[cần kiểm chứng]}
• Griffiths, Paul: The String Quartet: A History (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1983); ISBN 0-500-01311-X.
• Griffiths, Paul (1985). The String Quartet: A History . Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27383-9.
• Griffiths, Paul: "String Quartet: §§5–9", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• Rosen, Charles: The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (London: Faber & Faber, 1971); ISBN 0-571-10234-4 (soft covers), ISBN 0-571-09118-0 (hardback).
• Steinhardt, Arnold: Indivisible by Four (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1998); ISBN 0-374-52700-8.
• Tovey, Donald: Essays in Musical Analysis.^{[cần chú thích đầy đủ]}.
• Webster, James & Feder, Georg: "Joseph Haydn", article in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London & New York: Macmillan, 2001). Published separately as a book: The New Grove Haydn (New York: Macmillan 2002, ISBN 0-19-516904-2).
• Wyn Jones, David: "The Origins of the Quartet", in Robin Stowell (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); ISBN 0-521-00042-4.
• The Oxford Companion to Music Percy A. Scholes. Oxford University Press, 1938

• Barrett-Ayres, Reginald: Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet (New York: Schirmer Books, 1974); ISBN 0-02-870400-2.
• Blum, David: The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1986); ISBN 0-394-53985-0.
• Eisler, Edith: 21st-Century String Quartets (String Letter Publishing, 2000); ISBN 1-890490-15-6.
• Keller, Hans: The Great Haydn Quartets. Their Interpretation (London: J. M. Dent, 1986); ISBN 0-460-86107-7.
• Rounds, David: The Four & the One: In Praise of String Quartets (Fort Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Press, 1999); ISBN 1-882897-26-9.
• Stowell, Robin (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); ISBN 0-521-00042-4.
• Vuibert, Francis: Répertoire universel du quatuor à cordes (2009) ProQuartet-CEMC; ISBN 978-2-9531544-0-5.
• Winter, Robert (ed.): The Beethoven Quartet Companion (University of California Press, 1996).

• Greg Sandow – Introducing String Quartets tại Wayback Machine (lưu trữ tháng 7 18, 2011)
• A brief history of the development of the String Quartet up to Beethoven Lưu trữ 2011-09-27 tại Wayback Machine
• Beethoven's string quartets Lưu trữ 2007-02-13 tại Wayback Machine
• Art of the States: string quartet works for string quartet by American composers
• String Quartet Sound-bites from lesser known composers E.G. Onslow, Viotti, Rheinberger, Gretchaninov, A.Taneyev, Kiel, Busoni & many more.
• European archive String quartet recordings on copyright free Lp's at the European Archive (for non-American users only).
• Shostakovich: the string quartets
• String quartet compositions and performers since about 1914 and the connections between them

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