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UK
/sɛkstˈɛt/
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[ US /ˌsɛkˈstɛt/ ]
[ US /ˌsɛkˈstɛt/ ]
NOUN
- six performers or singers who perform together
- six people considered as a unit
- a musical composition written for six performers
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
How To Use sextet In A Sentence
- I straightened and jumped back just as a sextet of black-and-white CinSims trouped in, fresh from the film and the farm. Silver Zombie
- A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
- A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
- Mr. Batiste made an unexpected entrance at about 10:30 p.m., striding in from the back of Dizzy's, leading his sextet to the stage as he chanted and played the melodica, a mouth-blown, hand-held mini-keyboard. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
- Copenhagen Classic is a string sextet ensemble from Denmark that had its debut in 1997.
- (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
- Set to music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bach, Fearless Mine features a sextet performing eye-catching, colorful, and kaleidoscopic pointe work. The Francesca Harper Project Premieres New Works «
- After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons.
- The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound.
- Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni.