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Definition of Sextet

1. Noun. A musical composition written for six performers.

2. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.

3. Noun. Six performers or singers who perform together.

4. Noun. A set of six similar things considered as a unit.

5. Noun. Six people considered as a unit.

Definition of Sextet

1. n. See Sestet.

Definition of Sextet

1. Noun. any group of six people or things ¹

2. Noun. (music) a composition for six voices or instruments; a group of six singers or instrumentalists ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sextet

1. a group of six [n -S]

Literary usage of Sextet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Value by Agnes Low Rogers (1918)
"THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE sextet OF TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING MATHEMATICAL ABILITY The object of this sextet of tests is to provide a quick means of diagnosing ..."

2. Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Value by Agnes Low Rogers (1918)
"THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE sextet OF TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING MATHEMATICAL ABILITY The object of this sextet of tests is to provide a quick means of diagnosing ..."

3. The Life of Johannes Brahms by Florence May (1905)
"... on an original theme first performed in Leipzig by Frau Schumann—' Marienlieder'—First public performance of sextet in B flat in Hanover. ..."

4. A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1905)
"Si ma sextet, a quartet, and other cham- variations, capriccios, rondos, and pcs.; " Hunte Keihe," pcs. f. pf. and tf ..."

5. A Course of Instruction in Instrumentation by Salomon Jadassohn (1899)
"The Stringed Quintet, the sextet, the Octet and the Stringed Orchestra. The orchestration of the stringed quintet is nearly always the same, it consists of ..."

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