String Quartet No. 3 (Hill)

String Quartet No. 3 in A minor "The Carnival", Stiles 1.2.3.3 SQ3, was composed by Alfred Hill in 1912, when he was playing second violin in Cyril Monk's Austral String Quartet. Its original title was The Carnival, or Student in Italy. The manuscript score is preserved in the National Library of Australia. In 1955 Hill expanded it to a symphony, thus creating his Symphony No. 5. The quartet's average duration is 21-22 minutes.

The quartet is in four movements:

Originally all the four movements had titles. According to Allan Stiles, these were:

In the manuscript score held in the National Library of Australia the titles differ from those above:

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