duet

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  1. noun Music A composition for two voices or two instruments.
  2. noun Music A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.
  3. noun A pair.

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  • You have probably seen in the newspapers that Herr and Frau Milde sang the duet from the Dutchman at the Magdeburg Musical Festival excellently, and with splendid success. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
  • They jar on my feelings—excepting in our admirable and valiant friend St. Saens' Dalila, where he has made a glorious love duet which is quite in place; for Dalila and Samson are bound to give themselves to the devil for love's sake, whilst in Massenet's Magdalen and Herodfade the whole thing is merely conventional...theatrical. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • Miss Hutchinson had played the pianoforte, Lady Rannulf had brought Desdemona alive for them with a startling talent for acting, Hector had given one of his rare performances of magic and sleight of hand, and now the duet was about to begin. —  SlightlyDangerous
  • All she said was so limited by reserve and so colored by her feelings that it was but half truth; and so, I did not yet fully understand CHAPTER III Perhaps I ought not pass on this narrative without mentioning that the duet was a great success; so great that we were obliged to respond with two encores. —  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  • Since the beginning, the duet has been a basic human configuration. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
 

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aria ·  sonata ·  quartet ·  melody ·  interlude ·  solo ·  accompaniment ·  chorus ·  soloist ·  sing ·  refrain ·  recital

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duet:   duets
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Italian duetto, diminutive of duo, from Latin, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, as Italian, duetto;—D. Danish duet = G. Swedish duett = Spanish ducto = Portuguese duetto, from Italian duello, from duo. from Latin duo = English two.
 

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