sextet

1. : a piece of music written for six performers. 2. : a group of six people or things. especially : a group of six singers or musicians who perform together.

The model was produced in "one-seater", "two-seater tandems", "triplets" and "sextets". The sextet features the classic instrumentation of trumpet, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass, and drums. Despite the name, the band was a sextet.

six musicians A sextet is a group of six musicians or singers who play or sing together. the Paul Rogers Sextet. A sextet is a piece of music written for six performers.

Synonyms of sextet (noun collection) assemblage. band. cast. choir.

A string sextet is an ensemble of two violins, two violas, and two cellos i.e., you take a conventional string quartet and add a second viola and second cello, so the three instruments are at equal strength.

Noun. Any group of six people or things. (music) A composition for six voices or instruments.

For wind & brass sextet comprised of clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone sax, C trumpet, flugelhorn & saxhorn (can be played on euphonium bass clef).

In classical music, a string sextet is a composition written for six string instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such a composition. Most string sextets have been written for an ensemble consisting of two violins, two violas, and two cellos.

It's most common to find a sestet in Italian sonnets, such as those written by Petrarch and Dante. In English poetry, it's more usual to see a couplet - two lines of verse - at the end of a sonnet. The noun sestet occasionally fills in for the word sextet, or group of six things. The Latin root is sextus, or "sixth."

A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members. The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit.

The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.

In the Hornbostel–Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, string instruments are called chordophones. Other examples include the sitar, rebab, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and bouzouki. According to Sachs, Chordophones are instruments with strings.