sextette

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Noun	1.	sextette - six performers or singers who perform together sestet, sextet musical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together
	2.	sextette - a set of six similar things considered as a unit sestet, sextet set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth"
	3.	sextette - six people considered as a unit sixsome, sextet assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place
	4.	sextette - a musical composition written for six performers sextet, sestet musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"

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Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea.

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Unfortunately, his career ended somewhat ignominiously when he was lured to Hollywood and directed a somewhat faded and grotesque Mae West in Sextette.

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Wolfgang Ruf, for example, suggests that both of Brahms's string sextets occupy a space between standard chamber genres and orchestral music ("Die zwei Sextette von Brahms--Eine analytische Studie" in Brahms-Analysen: Referate der Kieler Tagung 1983, ed.

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The first one, "Sextette" [1978] will be screened on August 3rd.

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