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Definition of Sextolets
1. sextolet [n] - See also: sextolet
Literary usage of Sextolets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mistakes and Disputed Points in Music and Music Teaching by Louis Charles Elson (1910)
"Mozart, etc., is the false grouping of sextolets. If it is remembered that any
artificial group that divides in halves, either by the counts or the rhythm ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... sextolets, etc., according to the number of notes they contain, always have
their number written above them, as an indication that they are played at a ..."
3. Rhythm, Music and Education by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1921)
"... and sextolets, etc.). Irregular and pathetic accentuations at the word "hopp."
Application of all these exercises to different rhythmic formulae. 3. ..."
4. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"1, with original motives: a. in the middle register (figural rhythm either 8ths,
8th-triplets, 16ths, or 16th-sextolets). 6. in the lower register, ..."
5. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"Many errors of notation have been made, even by Mozart and Beethoven, in writing
sextolets, groups of six, where double triplets were intended. ..."
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