noun
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Any group of six people or things.
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A composition for six voices or instruments.
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A group of six singers or instrumentalists.
Examples of sextet in a Sentence
In 1943 he leads a quintet and sextet based in Los Angeles which includes Nat King Cole.
Matthew Rye The Sunday Telegraph, 21st December 2003 No, not the old brigade who formed this vocal sextet 35 years ago !
This popular traditional jazz sextet was formed six years ago and comprises of drums, bass, banjo, trumpet, clarinet and trombone.
Bandleader Tom Brown claimed that it was his saxophone sextet, the Six Brown Brothers, who inaugurated the craze.
A sextet inspired by the orchestral color and spontaneous feel of Charles Mingus 's small group music.
Instead, the German sextet has unleashed perhaps their most varied album to date.
The Raphael Ensemble was formed in 1982 with the aim of performing masterpieces of the quintet and sextet repertoire.
The sextet states are the highest spin states normally calculable using MOPAC in its unmodified form.
Mozart composed this divertimento, or sextet for strings and two horns, eight days after his pet starling dies.
I am the rich, golden drama of a Skye Sunset A perfectly harmonious Highland duet I put the " sex " into sextet.
Penny Fletcher completed the sextet with a superb personal best.
Which leaves the two sextet takes of " Acknowledgment " to beg the question, were they worth all those years of suspense?
Matthew Rye The Sunday Telegraph, 21st December 2003 No, not the old brigade who formed this vocal sextet 35 years ago!
Instead, the german sextet has unleashed perhaps their most varied album to date.
The second surprise was the power and beauty of the music that can be produced by a string sextet.
The wind sextet ' Youth ' is more commonly known by its Czech name Mladi.
Robert Firpo, a band leader, expanded the instrumentation into a tango sextet, with two bandoneons, two violins, a piano and a double bass.