sextet
Americannoun
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any group or set of six.
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Music. Also
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a company of six singers or players.
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a musical composition for six voices or instruments.
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noun
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music a group of six singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
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a group of six people or things
Etymology
Origin of sextet
Example Sentences
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Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
The most encouraging aspect of the noteworthy win for Northern Ireland was how central that sextet were to everything good about the hosts' performance.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024
L’Impératrice No matter who is playing against L’Impératrice on Friday at Coachella, I recommend ditching them in favor of the French sextet with the snazzy stagewear.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Fronted by singer Francesca Eluhu, the sextet blends psychedelic neo-soul, breezy R&B and jazz — both London’s dance-floor-moving modern fusion scene and dashes of Afro-Cuban rhythms — over six joyful tracks.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2024
“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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