Definition of sextet in English:

sextet

(also sextette)

noun sɛksˈtɛtsɛkˈstɛt

1A group of six people playing music or singing together.
六重奏乐队；六重唱乐队
the Jazz Club presents a new sextet
Example sentencesExamples
- Finally, Rob Ellington, who has been performing since the age of 11, won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre and toured with Blue Magic and others, completes the sextet as the band's lead singer.
- The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored.
- It helps that every one of this sextet can really sing.
- A sextet of artists come together in this unique collaboration, which is documented in a limited-edition book.
- The intended cycle was, like Schoenberg, for string sextet and using Richard Dehmel's poems.
- 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).
- To an extent, it does: The quartet has grown into a sextet, and the expanded line-up is evident in the ambitious, intricate, yet accessible arrangements and the dramatic dynamic between the songs.
- A sextet, including yours truly, sang alone on the secunda pars.
- The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound.
- 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.
- Quartets and sextets also are very valuable in group teaching.
- A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
- It would be misleading to call this local sextet an orchestral pop band, despite their occasionally clean melodies and prominent trumpet and cello.
- The Orchestra also has a sextet for when we perform at smaller venues.
- At the same time, she continued to participate in chamber music, and founded a sextet in 1974.
- 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.
- One expects the unexpected - a world music sextet follows a country trio, follows a heavyweight jazz trio.
- (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
- The sextets and septets playing in the clubs and hotels of the capital had brought the son, the traditional Cuban dance rhythm, from the east of the island, and added trumpets to the original percussion and guitars.
- While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot.
Synonyms
group, band, orchestra, combo
1. 1.1 A composition for a sextet.
  六重奏曲；六重唱曲
  the sextet from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
  Example sentencesExamples
  A sextet, the piece opens with the figures in silhouette, three stretched out on the floor and three standing - one behind the other at first, so the unfolding of a single totem into discrete, rushing bodies is astonishing and eerie.
  His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
  Right after we had begun the sextet of act II, with almost the whole cast on stage, we noticed a blue light that began flashing from the house.
  After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons.
  Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni.
  This latter duet culminates in Enrico's discovery of Anna's supposed infidelity, and the succeeding sextet rivals the parallel ensemble in Lucia di Lammermoor if nor for melody then for skill of construction.
  He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism.
2. 1.2 A set of six people or things.
  六人一组；六件一套
  a sextet of new releases
  新发行的六张一套的唱片。

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of sestet, suggested by Latin sex 'six'.

six from Middle English:
The number six is Old English, but comes from the same ancient root as Latin sex and Greek hexa ‘six’. These gave us sextet (mid 19th century), sextuple (mid 16th century), hexagon (late 16th century), and similar words (compare seven). In cricket a six is a hit that sends the ball clear over to the boundary without first striking the ground, scoring six runs. The ball needs to be struck hard to go that far, and this is the image behind the expression to knock for six, ‘to utterly surprise or overcome’, recorded from the beginning of the 20th century. A form of the phrase also occurs as to hit for six, which tends to have the slightly different meaning of ‘to affect very severely’. The origins of at sixes and sevens, ‘in a state of total confusion and disarray’, lie in gambling with dice. The phrase first occurs in Geoffrey Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, in the version to set on six and seven. It is most likely that the phrase was an alteration of the Old French words for five and six, cinque and sice, these being the highest numbers on a dice. The ‘inflation’ of the numbers probably came about either because people who did not know French misheard the words, or as a jokey exaggeration. The idea was that betting on the possibility of these two numbers coming up was the height of recklessness, and could result in your whole world falling apart. A man's six-pack is his toned midriff—the abdominal muscle is crossed by three bands of fibre which look like a set of six separate muscles if the person is slim and fit. The original six-pack is associated more with couch-potatoes, as it is a pack of six cans of beer held together with a plastic fastener.

Rhymes

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Definition of sextet in US English:

sextet

(also sextette)

nounsɛkˈstɛtsekˈstet

1A group of six people playing music or singing together.
六重奏乐队；六重唱乐队
Example sentencesExamples
- To an extent, it does: The quartet has grown into a sextet, and the expanded line-up is evident in the ambitious, intricate, yet accessible arrangements and the dramatic dynamic between the songs.
- A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
- A sextet, including yours truly, sang alone on the secunda pars.
- 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.
- Quartets and sextets also are very valuable in group teaching.
- 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.
- At the same time, she continued to participate in chamber music, and founded a sextet in 1974.
- (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.).
- The Orchestra also has a sextet for when we perform at smaller venues.
- A sextet of artists come together in this unique collaboration, which is documented in a limited-edition book.
- It helps that every one of this sextet can really sing.
- The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound.
- Finally, Rob Ellington, who has been performing since the age of 11, won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre and toured with Blue Magic and others, completes the sextet as the band's lead singer.
- It would be misleading to call this local sextet an orchestral pop band, despite their occasionally clean melodies and prominent trumpet and cello.
- The sextets and septets playing in the clubs and hotels of the capital had brought the son, the traditional Cuban dance rhythm, from the east of the island, and added trumpets to the original percussion and guitars.
- While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot.
- The intended cycle was, like Schoenberg, for string sextet and using Richard Dehmel's poems.
- 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).
- The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored.
- One expects the unexpected - a world music sextet follows a country trio, follows a heavyweight jazz trio.
Synonyms
group, band, orchestra, combo
1. 1.1 A composition for a sextet.
  六重奏曲；六重唱曲
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism.
  Right after we had begun the sextet of act II, with almost the whole cast on stage, we noticed a blue light that began flashing from the house.
  After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons.
  His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
  This latter duet culminates in Enrico's discovery of Anna's supposed infidelity, and the succeeding sextet rivals the parallel ensemble in Lucia di Lammermoor if nor for melody then for skill of construction.
  Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni.
  A sextet, the piece opens with the figures in silhouette, three stretched out on the floor and three standing - one behind the other at first, so the unfolding of a single totem into discrete, rushing bodies is astonishing and eerie.
2. 1.2 A set of six people or things.
  六人一组；六件一套
  a sextet of new releases
  新发行的六张一套的唱片。

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of sestet, suggested by Latin sex ‘six’.

单词	sextet
释义	Definition of sextet in English: sextet (also sextette) noun sɛksˈtɛtsɛkˈstɛt 1A group of six people playing music or singing together. 六重奏乐队；六重唱乐队 the Jazz Club presents a new sextet Example sentencesExamples Finally, Rob Ellington, who has been performing since the age of 11, won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre and toured with Blue Magic and others, completes the sextet as the band's lead singer. The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored. It helps that every one of this sextet can really sing. A sextet of artists come together in this unique collaboration, which is documented in a limited-edition book. The intended cycle was, like Schoenberg, for string sextet and using Richard Dehmel's poems. 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). To an extent, it does: The quartet has grown into a sextet, and the expanded line-up is evident in the ambitious, intricate, yet accessible arrangements and the dramatic dynamic between the songs. A sextet, including yours truly, sang alone on the secunda pars. The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound. 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. Quartets and sextets also are very valuable in group teaching. A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery. It would be misleading to call this local sextet an orchestral pop band, despite their occasionally clean melodies and prominent trumpet and cello. The Orchestra also has a sextet for when we perform at smaller venues. At the same time, she continued to participate in chamber music, and founded a sextet in 1974. 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. One expects the unexpected - a world music sextet follows a country trio, follows a heavyweight jazz trio. (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.). The sextets and septets playing in the clubs and hotels of the capital had brought the son, the traditional Cuban dance rhythm, from the east of the island, and added trumpets to the original percussion and guitars. While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot. Synonyms group, band, orchestra, combo 1.1 A composition for a sextet. 六重奏曲；六重唱曲 the sextet from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ Example sentencesExamples A sextet, the piece opens with the figures in silhouette, three stretched out on the floor and three standing - one behind the other at first, so the unfolding of a single totem into discrete, rushing bodies is astonishing and eerie. His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Right after we had begun the sextet of act II, with almost the whole cast on stage, we noticed a blue light that began flashing from the house. After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons. Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni. This latter duet culminates in Enrico's discovery of Anna's supposed infidelity, and the succeeding sextet rivals the parallel ensemble in Lucia di Lammermoor if nor for melody then for skill of construction. He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism. 1.2 A set of six people or things. 六人一组；六件一套 a sextet of new releases 新发行的六张一套的唱片。 Origin Mid 19th century: alteration of sestet, suggested by Latin sex 'six'. six from Middle English: The number six is Old English, but comes from the same ancient root as Latin sex and Greek hexa ‘six’. These gave us sextet (mid 19th century), sextuple (mid 16th century), hexagon (late 16th century), and similar words (compare seven). In cricket a six is a hit that sends the ball clear over to the boundary without first striking the ground, scoring six runs. The ball needs to be struck hard to go that far, and this is the image behind the expression to knock for six, ‘to utterly surprise or overcome’, recorded from the beginning of the 20th century. A form of the phrase also occurs as to hit for six, which tends to have the slightly different meaning of ‘to affect very severely’. The origins of at sixes and sevens, ‘in a state of total confusion and disarray’, lie in gambling with dice. The phrase first occurs in Geoffrey Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, in the version to set on six and seven. It is most likely that the phrase was an alteration of the Old French words for five and six, cinque and sice, these being the highest numbers on a dice. The ‘inflation’ of the numbers probably came about either because people who did not know French misheard the words, or as a jokey exaggeration. The idea was that betting on the possibility of these two numbers coming up was the height of recklessness, and could result in your whole world falling apart. A man's six-pack is his toned midriff—the abdominal muscle is crossed by three bands of fibre which look like a set of six separate muscles if the person is slim and fit. The original six-pack is associated more with couch-potatoes, as it is a pack of six cans of beer held together with a plastic fastener. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette Definition of sextet in US English: sextet (also sextette) nounsɛkˈstɛtsekˈstet 1A group of six people playing music or singing together. 六重奏乐队；六重唱乐队 Example sentencesExamples To an extent, it does: The quartet has grown into a sextet, and the expanded line-up is evident in the ambitious, intricate, yet accessible arrangements and the dramatic dynamic between the songs. A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery. A sextet, including yours truly, sang alone on the secunda pars. 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. Quartets and sextets also are very valuable in group teaching. 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. At the same time, she continued to participate in chamber music, and founded a sextet in 1974. (For example, a woodwind quintet might add a piano and become a sextet, or a string quartet might be reduced to a string trio.). The Orchestra also has a sextet for when we perform at smaller venues. A sextet of artists come together in this unique collaboration, which is documented in a limited-edition book. It helps that every one of this sextet can really sing. The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound. Finally, Rob Ellington, who has been performing since the age of 11, won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre and toured with Blue Magic and others, completes the sextet as the band's lead singer. It would be misleading to call this local sextet an orchestral pop band, despite their occasionally clean melodies and prominent trumpet and cello. The sextets and septets playing in the clubs and hotels of the capital had brought the son, the traditional Cuban dance rhythm, from the east of the island, and added trumpets to the original percussion and guitars. While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot. The intended cycle was, like Schoenberg, for string sextet and using Richard Dehmel's poems. 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). The sextet received honourable mention, the quintet was ignored. One expects the unexpected - a world music sextet follows a country trio, follows a heavyweight jazz trio. Synonyms group, band, orchestra, combo 1.1 A composition for a sextet. 六重奏曲；六重唱曲 Example sentencesExamples He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism. Right after we had begun the sextet of act II, with almost the whole cast on stage, we noticed a blue light that began flashing from the house. After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons. His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. This latter duet culminates in Enrico's discovery of Anna's supposed infidelity, and the succeeding sextet rivals the parallel ensemble in Lucia di Lammermoor if nor for melody then for skill of construction. Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni. A sextet, the piece opens with the figures in silhouette, three stretched out on the floor and three standing - one behind the other at first, so the unfolding of a single totem into discrete, rushing bodies is astonishing and eerie. 1.2 A set of six people or things. 六人一组；六件一套 a sextet of new releases 新发行的六张一套的唱片。 Origin Mid 19th century: alteration of sestet, suggested by Latin sex ‘six’.
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