Quintet Definition

kwintet
noun
A composition for five voices or five instruments, as for string quartet and piano.
Webster's New World
Any group or set of five persons or things.
Webster's New World
A group of five performers of such a composition, or any group of five musicians playing together.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
quintet
Plural:
quintets

Origin of Quintet

  • Probably from Italian quintetto diminutive of quinto fifth from Latin quīntus penkwe in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth"), itself from Latin quintus, related to quÄ«nque (“five").

    From Wiktionary

Quintet Sentence Examples

  • His own brass quintet is still on the back burner!

  • He has also started a brass quintet with five friends " Alpha " .

  • Later the same year Nielsen wrote a number of minor pieces for a wind quintet formed by players in the Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra.

  • Perhaps the outstanding work to show this inspired conservatism is his Piano Quintet in D major of 1959, Opus 23.

  • The London Chamber Group - a wind quintet written to draw on the particular strengths of the players in the Group.

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Words Starting With

QQUQUI

Words Ending With

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