Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A composition for five voices or five instruments.
- noun A group of five singers or five instrumentalists.
- noun A group of five.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: A movement for five solo parts, either vocal or instrumental. Instrumental quintets are essentially similar to quartets.
- noun A company of five singers or players who perform quintets.
- noun A bicycle made to carry five.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
composition (a type ofchamber music ) infive parts (typically each asinger or instrumentalist, sometimes severalmusicians ) - noun music A
group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together - noun Any group of five members
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical composition for five performers
- noun five performers or singers who perform together
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- noun five people considered as a unit
- noun a set of five similar things considered as a unit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The reality of the local parish and its guitar quintet is likely to be disappointing by comparison.
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The quintet is back at full force for the first time in 15 years as they reconcile with Bizzy and welcome back Flesh after eight years in prison.
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M5, a brass quintet from the Manhattan School of Music, will be among the exciting young ensembles that perform live.
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As wonderful as the big-band album is, Mr. Watson's ongoing quintet is no less carefully orchestrated: Horizon is one of those rare groups of any size where every element, every solo, every melody, every drum break, seems precisely in place and serves a direct purpose; you feel that the composition is growing and developing even during the improvisations.
Masters and Young Bloods Will Friedwald 2010
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The Motown quintet is known for signature harmony songs such as "My Girl" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)."
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The Motown quintet is known for signature harmony songs such as "My Girl" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)."
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Mount McGinnis, the tallest, most difficult, and most rewarding of the mountain quintet.
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The fifth member of the quintet was the most terrible of them all.
Kid Wolf of Texas 1938
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Walter, and then as Eva, David, Magdalena, and Beckmesser successively enter, the scene develops into a magnificent quintet, which is one of the most charming numbers in the opera.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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In the next scene occurs a dialogue quintet, which is followed by a long aria ( "Sempre gridi") by the duenna Bertha, called by the Italians the "Aria de Sorbetto," because the people used to eat ices while it was sung; reminding one of the great aria from
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
qroqqa commented on the word quintet
My father never held a tennis racket or a golf club, and he couldn't kick a football or catch a swift pitch, but he bowled whenever he got a chance – tenpins, duckpins, candlepins, cocked hat, and quintet, a difficult game, the rules for which I was told he had helped to make up.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Gentleman from Indiana', in The Thurber Album
July 18, 2008