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UK
/sɛkstˈɛt/
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[ US /ˌsɛkˈstɛt/ ]
[ US /ˌsɛkˈstɛt/ ]
NOUN
- six performers or singers who perform together
- six people considered as a unit
- a musical composition written for six performers
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
How To Use sextet In A Sentence
- At the age of eighty-five she starred in a film called "Sextette." Not surprisingly, Mae West played a sexy woman that men could not resist.
- The fest kicks off with a visit from Vancouver's Zeellia, a sextet whose home base is Ukrainian traditional music, from which point they venture out to sounds from the Balkans, the Baltic region and the Canadian prairies.
- He could see into the rooms of the other class dormitories, where the students studied, skylarked, rough-housed, or conversed on innumerable topics; from a room in Nordyke, the abode of care-free Juniors, a splendidly blended sextette sang songs of their T. Haviland Hicks Senior
- The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack.
- 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.
- For example, Act One loses the ‘Giovani liete’ choruses, Act Three loses the sextet, and Act Four loses Barbarina's cavatina, Marcellina's song about the he-goat and the she-goat, and Basilio's ‘In quegli anni.’
- The sextet that performed (a pair each of violins and violas, and a continuo pairing of cello and harpsichord) offered a mixed baroque program in which three string sonatas by Tomaso Albinoni were heard alongside concertos and sonatas by Bach and Vivaldi, and by the less-encountered Georg Muffat and Henricus Albicastro. Music review: Ensemble 415 at Library of Congress
- The sex electrons which occupy this trous - shaped cloud are called the aromatic sextet.
- A jazz ensemble that includes double bass, cello, and melodeon, among other strange sounds, the Kai Sextet uses traditional music from Scandinavia, Western Europe, and India as a basis for improvisation.
- 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).