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.

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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.).
Up next was the 1990 Mount Mary Vineyard Lilydale Cabernets Quintets, a lighter but rewarding style of cabernet that showing very well with a secondary blackcurrant note, lovely delicacy and great precision with no greenness or herbaciousness. A historic tasting Down Under – Bin 60A, Grange, Hill of Grace | Dr Vino's wine blog
Immediately, the musical and human chemistry of the quintet proved itself a winner, but there was always violence at their shows, mostly sparked by the singer.
That these four tracks were recorded live offers the listener an opportunity to hear this quintet in the raw, without the safety net of a producer demanding a retake.
The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano.
Over the years, the quintet have regularly dampened speculation about any reunion. The Sun
So, if you imagine, in the quintet, all five players have the leading voice at different points and you have to be confident enough and love the other four enough to trust them to take you where they want.
Visitors can be entranced by the different sounds of a trio, quartet or quintet.
The first movement revolves around a haunting ostinato which forms the motto theme of the quintet (a typical Franckian device) and develops throughout the movement.
They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet. Times, Sunday Times
We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets.
EverestL.A. rock quintette Everest is the sound of deep places. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 201
In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House.
They will have a civil ceremony at Ashton Memorial with a brass quintet playing in the background before moving on to a nearby hotel for their reception. Times, Sunday Times
The contemporary music quintet was founded in August 1996.
Renowned for flexibility, performing familiar and less well-known chamber pieces, the ensemble pairs the supreme string quintets of Mozart and Mendelsshon.
He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
The changeups start with 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder, who switches from male-on-male violence to trot out a quintet of lingerie-clad ass-kickers in Sucker Punch.
A long list of names yes, but there's nothing larger here than a quintet format.
Air ReviewDallas-based art-folk quintette Air Review is the auditory splendor of lead vocalist Douglas Hale piano, guitar, backing vocalists  Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 198
On an especially pleasant June night, he picked up a quintet of pie-eyed college girls.
There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
The singlet is detectable as a quintet at room temperature in methemoglobin with identical spectral features to those of the well characterized tyrosyl radical in photosystem II.
The finale is a headlong, moto perpetuo tarantella in additive rhythms, the marimba's breakneck acceleration echoed by the quartet: the unisono final phrase for the quintet was breathtaking.
They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet. Times, Sunday Times
This trio was composed the same summer as the B Minor quintet Op 115.
A great deal of care and thought about phrasing, articulation, accents and dynamics has evidently gone into this impressive performance of the quintet. Times, Sunday Times
His gravestone is located in front of a quintet of ghostly musicians who eternally perform in the attraction's memorable graveyard scene.
Mozart had with him a B flat string quintet with two violas written when he was sixteen and just back from his third Italian journey.
Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
Stars are the Montreal-based rock quintette of Torquil Campbell (songwriter, vocals), Amy Millan (guitar, vocals), Evan Cranley (songwriter, guitar), and Chris Seligman (keyboards), with the help of Pat McGee on drumsticks whilst on the road. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 134
But where that unconventional ensemble features two chordal instruments—piano and guitar—and no bass, the quintet appearing this week features two basses, Scott Colley playing the acoustic upright and Fima Ephron on the electric, along with Messrs. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
Look, no-one's about to hold up a handful of Boccherini Quintets and suggest that they're measured against Mozart's, and when it comes to string quintets with two cellos, a certain C major work by Schubert tends to top the polls.
Crooked StillCountry-elegant quintette Crooked Still was founded in Boston in the mid-aughts. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 205
This French quintet offer up a spirited romp through every soulful flavour under the sun, from drum 'n' bass to meringue, to celebrate the finer sides of life.
While their chart career has been on hold, they've remained a highly respected live act and one with all five of the original quintet at the heart of the performance.
He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
These sisters were not only good comic performers, they could sing too, with superb solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and harmony, backed by a small musical ensemble.
Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful. Farouche
The NYOI is joined by the Wind Quintet of Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra which includes oboe, clarinet, horn, flute and bassoon.
We also learn that the quintets were composed for the Spanish Royal Family to be played in the splendid retreat of El Escorial which was apparently quite a musical haven in the 18th century.
Telegraph England name uncapped quintet in provisional squad for ICC World Twenty20 - 44 mins ago BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Majestic is awful; and reading Harbinson's Projekt Saucer [sic] quintet is a real slog … Plus, there's also the possibility the author will get sued by some litigious "ufologist". Futurismic
Polk's coloration, her contrasts between pianissimo and fortissimo moments, are similar to Sviatoslav Richter's rendition of César Franck's Piano Quintet.
Mozart and Weber quintets are two of her favourites, and it has been several years since these two masterworks have experienced such authorative performances.
Visitors were also entertained by a quintet of musicians from the Bolton School of Music.
The one-movement, 26-minute symphony is written for a chamber orchestra of twelve instruments: string quintet, two flutes, piccolo, harp, piano, vibraphone, and tam-tam.
Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
I also derived heuristic joint probability distributions based on the determinants involved in the determinantal inequalities and obtained from them formulas for evaluating triplet phase invariants and, later on, formulas for the expected values of phase invariants and embedded semi-invariants of any order, triplet, quartet, quintet, etc. The utility of phase invariants of high order in phase determination has so far been rather limited, except perhaps collectively in the high order determinants where they have been useful for refining the values of approximately determined phase values. Jerome Karle - Autobiography
Throw in battering ram Earl Campbell and the sweet moves of Gale Sayers and this quintet boasts speed, power, elusiveness, receiving skills and game-breaking ability at every turn. The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
Fifty years ago, a lot of musicians went fishing in that area, from the compositionally controlled albums of Andrew Hill to the open-ended modal music of Miles Davis's 1960s quintet. Keeping Busy With Bebop Bigwigs
The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
But Barker? as the show's know-all, know-nothing pawnshop assistant, dispensing gnomic advice about women and America? appears in almost every episode and is (alongside fellow standups Kristen Schaal and Rhys Darby) one-fifth of the idiosyncratic quintet that made the show so kookily enjoyable. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord
The 20th-century composer Ernest Bloch, he marked the second movement of his first piano quintet andante mistico. Italian: The Language That Sings
These two quintets contain music that is extremely pleasant and also very relaxing without being too troublesome on the intellectual side.
If both the title and cover aren't telling enough, this California quintet wants to corner the market on teen angst.
The CD contains a short string quartet movement, a suite of four pieces for brass quintet, and solo pieces for piano, trombone, and cello.
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Hero and the other guardians stood in front of the royal quintet, unsheathing their weapons and creating a perimeter around their lieges.
They will have a civil ceremony at Ashton Memorial with a brass quintet playing in the background before moving on to a nearby hotel for their reception. Times, Sunday Times
Over the years, the quintet have regularly dampened speculation about any reunion. The Sun
Symphony No 5 dates from 1923-4, is the most extended in its quintet of movements, and is a thoroughly convincing rejection of post-war modishness.
Further, his longstanding quintet, co-starring tenorist Wayne Escoffery and pianist Danny Grissett, is fully up to the challenge of playing it. From Swing to Bop
He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
If a quartette were assembled, -- and many times the musical party was enlarged to a quintette or a septette, -- an adjournment was necessary to a room less crowded, but equally sparse of conventional furniture. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
I began watching the company in the fifties, when a quintet of highly individual ballerinas reigned over the female roster.
The quintet have released easy listening tunes that people of all ages can appreciate.
The quintet played an arrangement of a Mozart piece for clockwork organ and original works by Danzi, Barber and Ibert: all stalwarts of the repertory. Berlin in Lights: Uptown, Downtown, All Around the Town - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Although a number of composers have written concertos for it, it shines best in the orchestra, with many effective solos, and as a chamber-music instrument in wind quintets, sextets, and octets and other ensembles.
There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
Unbeknownst to this merry quintet, in those same woods, a hermit finds his dog, dead and decimated, apparently the recipient of a brutal flesh-eating contagion.
The Five Star Brass Navy Band Northwest Brass Quintet provided a musical prelude to the Opening Session.
I have a thing for twins/triplets/quartets/quintets / sextuplets / septuplets/etc.
The quintet had been transcribed for clarinet and piano.
Visitors can be entranced by the different sounds of a trio, quartet or quintet.
Guests cheered as a quintet of Nordic beauties emerged on a sparkling white circular stage littered with disco glitter balls.
In these conditions he managed also to compose a nonet for wind quintet and string quartet before being transferred in February 1945 to Terezín, where he died a month later of dysentery.
At his wish the Quintet had to preserve the structure and instrumentation of the Hummel Quintet, recte Septuor, which at that time was still new.
Fans of Latin music should go just to hear the virtuosic quintet, led by bandoneonist Martin Sued, play Piazzolla. Tango Buenos Aires: Plenty of steps, little sizzle at George Mason
A Californian quintet making waves with beautiful, melodic indie pop. Times, Sunday Times
The ensemble was established to explore a very varied repertoire for the brass quintet, through a wide-ranging selection of music from Renaissance to twentieth Century.
Composers have written a considerable amount of music for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba.
The three-year-old quintet has become a sextet with the addition of Aaron Taylor, who has honed his bagpiping skills with the University of Calgary Pipe Band (in which he still plays).
L.A. rock quintette White Arrows is the brainchild of fire-charmer Mickey Schiff. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 146
She hunted through her collection for the Mozart clarinet quintet. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Urban Divide's septet originally began as a jazz quintet, and evolved from there.
Australian quintet the Temper Trap yowled at the intersection of U2 and Maroon 5, while Arizona emo stalwarts Jimmy Eat World offered punchy, punked-up power ballads that felt about 10 years old (because they were). In concert: Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion
They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet. Times, Sunday Times
The Mancy of Sound," Mr. Coleman's sharp new album with Five Elements, was released in late July; "Synastry," a chamberlike duo outing by Ms. Shyu and the bassist Mark Dresser, is due out next week; and Mr. Sorey will make his label debut as a bandleader in September, with "Oblique 1," a state-of-the-art quintet album. NYT > Home Page
15: 12 @Colleen_Lindsay So my quintet of 600,000 word interlocked novels is right out, eh? Tweets I have known
She complied, though heartbroken, and in spite of the insistence of her teacher William Alwyn who, some half-century later, became the dedicatee of her Wind Quintet.
A quintet of young, open-hearted Canadian theatre artists travelled to the Independent Republic of Georgia to immerse themselves in the theatre-loving and thrillingly exotic culture.
He had given some thought to the idea of a string quintette with cembalo, he said. The Road Leads On
Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful. Farouche
Among them is a remarkably good piano quintette, while she has also written a sonata and a romanza for violin and piano, besides several beautiful songs. Woman's Work in Music
The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music.
Nixon most famously dubbed the leading ladies of the movies "The King and I," "My Fair Lady," and "West Side Story," the last of which also had her dubbing Rita Moreno's voice in the "Tonight" quintet, because Rita's dubber was out sick! After all, the man did write "A Simple Song."
Addio" was pretty much an improvisation orchestrated for the bandoneon and string quintet. Joseph Vella: Interview: Vince Mendoza (Jazz Composer Extraordinaire)
The third great album from this Ohio quintet sees them in melancholy mood, easing out songs packed with coy observations and lyrical moments.
The band's lineup on this tour is the “classic” 1992-1996 quintet, so only songs from that era were part of the setlist. Live last night: Nine innings with Guided By Voices
At the same time, they are as refined as any of the string quartets and quintets he composed during that period.
This collection of a string quintet and two quartets does not provide a clear cut answer.
In 1949 he put together a quintet with an offbeat instrumentation — piano, vibraphone, guitar, bass and drums — that played everything from pretty-pretty ballads to such hell-for-leather bebop anthems as Denzil Best's "Move. Both Good and Popular
And, in a day of sound-alike rap rockers and indistinguishable pop-leaning pretty boys, it's not often that a band comes out with the confidence and talent to take musical risks like this quintet does.
It all started out with a few unplanned transpositions while I was doing arrangements for my wind quintet on Sibelius, but now it's gotten completely out of hand.
Here we are presented with two French piano quintets from the first quarter of the last century, written within a decade of each other, so the coupling seems an apt one.
The Pro Arte Quartet (plus cellist Anthony Pini) contributes a C-major Quintet whose first two movements ensure the work's place in the empyrean.
The host school itself has six groups taking part a brass band, brass ensemble, junior brass trio and brass quintet, as well as a wind band and a clarinet choir.
A jazz outing with the feel of many genres - klezmer, tango and musette - this is a true world music played by a quintet of reeds, accordion, violin, trombone (doubling on tuba) and drums.
Technically, the title of this collection includes something of a misnomer since none of the works on the disc is a quintet in the accepted sense of the word.
As the title may imply, this is a quintet of Canadian jazz musicians, all of whom have busy careers south of the border.
The brass quintet is a fun and whacky group made up of members of the Bournemouth Symphonic Orchestra brass section.
Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello.
Philly-based alt-rock quintette Dr. Dog started as a side project by vocalists/songwriters Toby Leaman (bass) and Scott McMicken (guitar) of Raccoon back in '99. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 126
They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet. Times, Sunday Times
Music is provided by a quintet comprising piano, flute, clarinet and two violins.
Alberta CrossAlberta Cross is the blues-rock quintette founded by Stockholm native Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals, guitar) and Londoner Terry Wolfers (bass) in 2005. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I
The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
Of this quintet of great Old Firm hopefuls, only Ross has made a starting appearance in a derby, and if this changes today it may be down to selection problems blighting both clubs more than anything else.
Yet quintet's performances, even more than the material, are completely timeless: Mr. Peplowski's tenor saxophone trio reading (with just bass and polyrhythmic drums) of "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (from 1930, probably the newest song in the set) is both breathless and breathy, and as modern as Sonny Rollins , Joe Lovano or any other contempo-tenor you could name. Music With All the Fixings
Over the years, the quintet have regularly dampened speculation about any reunion. The Sun
Two-cello quintets and string quartets poured from him, but for grander occasions there were symphonies of a robust charm that had every late-eighteenth-century ingredient except Haydn's daring and bubbling originality.
It's the only word you could apply to all of the Denver quintet's music, from their loudest, fastest moment to their iciest piano passage.
The quintet's punky, nu-wave songs have been labelled 'mathrock'. The Sun
The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored.
The Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet will re-create the pre-electric, pre-fusion Miles Davis when it presents "The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959" at 8 p.m. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Apart from their age all were close to forty except Clara, who was thirty-one and apart from the Boston Brahminism that linked Henry and Clover Adams, the quintet had little in common. The Five of Hearts
The leaders of these two loving, live-quintet tributes are both bassists.
With a mere 12 songs to the band's credit, the New York City garage rock quintet became the It band du jour following the 2001 release of Is This It.
American Minor, the freshly New York-based rock 'n' roll quintette, was founded in West Virginia in 2004. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Forty-Three
The host school itself has six groups taking part a brass band, brass ensemble, junior brass trio and brass quintet, as well as a wind band and a clarinet choir.
After becoming a legend in Paris, Boland took off during the '50s with the Chet Baker quintette, and eventually landed Stateside. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 202
Incorporating various styles of rock, jazz, blues and folk music, the quintet is lead by Matthews on guitar and vocals.
Abrams uses the personnel in trio, quartet, quintet and sextet formation, in a series of compelling performances.

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