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Sextette

noun
1.
Six performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: sestet, sextet.
2.
A set of six similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sestet, sextet.
3.
Six people considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sextet, sixsome.
4.
A musical composition written for six performers.  Synonyms: sestet, sextet.






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"Sextette" Quotes from Famous Books



... frantic disentangling of themselves from the pushing, shoving crowd; a hurried, frightened survey of the sea of unfamiliar faces around them, and then straight into the arms of the smiling college President the anxious sextette walked. ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown

... my head. That was not the way, I knew. I looked toward the Disk, still flanked with its sextette of spheres, still guarded by the flaming blue stars. They were motionless, calm, watching. I sensed no hostility, no anger; it was as though they were waiting for us to—to—waiting for ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt

... say much about the four first works, where the mind and manner of the artist is taking shape. The Wanderers Sturmlied (the song of a traveller during a storm, op. 14) is a vocal sextette with an orchestral accompaniment, whose subject is taken from a poem of Goethe's. It was written before Strauss met Ritter, and its construction is after the manner of Brahms, and shows a rather affected thought and style. Aus Italien (op. 16) is an exuberant picture of impressions ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland



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