quintet

[ US /kwɪnˈtɛt/ ]
[ UK /kwɪntˈɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a set of five similar things considered as a unit
  2. a musical composition for five performers
  3. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
  4. five performers or singers who perform together
  5. five people considered as a unit
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How To Use quintet In A Sentence

  • IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
  • Then as well we were treated to beautiful Mozart and Strauss music by a delightful quintet in traditional costume.
  • To get around this he would have only a double string quintet play during a very quiet flute or oboe solo.
  • The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
  • All are of a pastel shade, beautifully played by a quintet of bandoneon, clarinet, piano, bass and drums, one that includes Dino Saluzzi and Kenny Werner.
  • At first, the cor anglais and clarinet enter with long, held notes, almost blending with the organ, but by the song's end, the whole quintet has joined, offering up countermelodies and some needed timbrel variety.
  • Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
  • Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute.
  • Sean Lamont heads a quintet of wing specialists who are vying for position in the Stade de France showdown.
  • (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
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