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sextet

/seks-tet/US // sɛksˈtɛt //UK // (sɛksˈtɛt) //

六重奏,六重唱,六人组,六部曲

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any group or set of six.
    • : Also sestet. Music. a company of six singers or players.a musical composition for six voices or instruments.

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Examples

  • The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.

  • I hope you will be pleased to hear I have composed a sextet for strings.

  • Each central globe yields a sextet and a quartet, and the rod sets free two quartets and a peculiarly formed sextet.

  • The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.

  • I thus formed an instrumental sextet, each group of which had a strictly defined part.