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sextet Definition

sex·tet (seks tet)

noun

  1. a group of six persons or things
  2. Music
    1. a composition for six voices or six instruments
    2. a group of six performers of such a composition, or any group of six musicians playing together

Etymology: altered by assoc. with L sex, six < sestet

sextet Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • base: In 1943 he leads a quintet and sextet based in Los Angeles which includes Nat King Cole.
  • complete: Penny Fletcher completed the sextet with a superb personal best.
  • inspire: A sextet inspired by the orchestral color and spontaneous feel of Charles Mingus's small group music.
  • leave: Which leaves the two sextet takes of " Acknowledgment " to beg the question, were they worth all those years of suspense?
  • form: Matthew Rye The Sunday Telegraph, 21st December 2003 No, not the old brigade who formed this vocal sextet 35 years ago!

Adjective modifier

  • vocal: Matthew Rye The Sunday Telegraph, 21st December 2003 No, not the old brigade who formed this vocal sextet 35 years ago!
  • German: Instead, the German sextet has unleashed perhaps their most varied album to date.

Modifies a noun

  • repertoire: The Raphael Ensemble was formed in 1982 with the aim of performing masterpieces of the quintet and sextet repertoire.
  • state: The sextet states are the highest spin states normally calculable using MOPAC in its unmodified form.

Noun used with modifier

  • string: The second surprise was the power and beauty of the music that can be produced by a string sextet.
  • jazz: This popular traditional jazz sextet was formed six years ago and comprises of drums, bass, banjo, trumpet, clarinet and trombone.
  • wind: The wind sextet ' Youth ' is more commonly known by its Czech name Mladi.
  • saxophone: Bandleader Tom Brown claimed that it was his saxophone sextet, the Six Brown Brothers, who inaugurated the craze.

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