Music for Strings by Joseph Ott         

460 Short Pieces for Two Violins
Alternate Title:  Violin Teaching Pieces
Date:  1973

Capriccio
Date:  1986
Instrumentation:  Violin and Piano

Five Pieces for String Quartet
Date:  1958
Instrumentation:  2 Violins, Viola and Cello

Harp Pieces
Date:  NA

Piece for Solo Cello and Nobody Else
Date:  1981
Duration:  3’3”

Piece for Solo Viola
Date:  1960

Short Piece for String Quartet
Date:  1960

Sicilian
Date:  1986
Instrumentation:  Violin and Piano

Six Pieces for Viola and Piano
Date:  1960

String Quartet No. 1
Date:  1952

String Quartet No. 2
Date:  1961

String Quartet No. 3
Date:  1964

String Quartet No. 4
Date:  1971

Study for String Quartette
Date:  1963

Suite for Solo Double Bass
Date:  1986
Duration:  12’30”
Notes:  Eight movements:  1. Wood and Hair; 2. Changing Time; 3. Toccatina;  4.  Soliloquy; 5. March; 6. Forward and Backward; 7. Soliloquy II; 8. Pizzicato

Suite for Viola and Piano
Date:  1961
Duration:  10’

Ten Duets and Trios for Violins
Date:  1968
Duration:  12’

Two Pieces for String Quartet
Date:  1968

Variations
Date:  1986
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano

Viola Sonata
Date:  1967
Duration:  15;
Notes:  Commissioned by Professor George Grossman, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Violin Piece
Date:  1963
Instrumentation:  Violin and Piano