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sextet
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sextet, sextette
Music a group of six singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group


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These composers' sextets indicate they've found depths of musical passion with a dip into sublimity that will suffuse the rest of their musical life, deepening their work even as they return to compositions for less than six.
The ensemble, made up of members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, played the two Brahms sextets as part of Leamington Music's Beethoven and Brahms Festival, and they thrilled a large audience at the Royal Pump Rooms.
Although Sinatra is primarily famous for his work with various Big Bands, and performing with arrangers such as Nelson Riddle, he was known to play many more intimate venues with much smaller instrum-ental ensembles, such as quartets, quintets and sextets.
 
 
 
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