Literary usage of Sextett
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Chamber Music by Nicholas Kilburn (1904)
"40—String sextett in Bb—String sextett in G major—Piano Quartett in G minor—Quintett
in F minor— String Quartetts — Thematic resemblances — String Quintetts ..."
2. The Story of Chamber Music by Nicholas Kilburn (1904)
"40—String sextett in B[>—String sextett in G major—Piano Quartett in G minor—Quintett
in F minor— String Quartetts — Thematic resemblances — String ..."
3. Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of by Allen Augustus Brown (1916)
"2 in N.407.73 LEWANDOWSKY, M. sextett pour deux violons, deux violes et deux
violoncelles. ... sextett für zwei Violinen, zwei Violen und zwei Violoncelli. ..."
4. A New Pilgrimage: And Other Poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1889)
"... from the greatest of all our sonneteers and poets. Where Shakespeare rejected
the Italian sextett in its favour, we moderns surely may stand excused. ..."
5. A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1889)
"With regard to the sextett in the shorter ... Where Shakespeare rejected the
Italian sextett in its favour, we moderns surely may stand excused. ..."
6. The Book of Job by Richard Green Moulton (1896)
"Elihu, when he passes from apology to argument (39), recites in a sextett what
he conceives to be Job's plea, and in the same measure ..."
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