Antonyms for sextet


Grammar : Noun
Spell : seks-tet
Phonetic Transcription : sɛksˈtɛt


Definition of sextet

Origin :
  • 1841, altered (by influence of German Sextett) from sestet.
  • As in six : noun six of something
  • As in ensemble : noun collection
Example sentences :
  • The greatest ensemble number in Italian opera, the sextet, has begun.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb
  • They are an introduction, a chorus, and a septet, not a sextet as he said.
  • Extract from : « Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas » by W. J. Henderson
  • As a sextet, there's no use denying that we are rather lovely to look at.
  • Extract from : « The Seven Darlings » by Gouverneur Morris
  • I hope you will be pleased to hear I have composed a sextet for strings.
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
  • Sextet for two clarionets, two flutes, and two bassoons; performed 1804-5.
  • Extract from : « Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) » by Elliott Graeme
  • In all, he and his sextet had captured nineteen prisoners and twenty horses.
  • Extract from : « Rebel Raider » by H. Beam Piper
  • The Sextet is well divided from the Octave, the climax is clearly underlined.
  • Extract from : « Avril » by H. Belloc
  • The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.
  • Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen
  • But this is not the way passion speaks, and here again the sextet condemns Herbert in the plainest terms.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Is it wise to accept the offer of the Opera Direction, for the sextet seems to point to the fact that I am going down-hill?
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky

Synonyms for sextet

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