Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A combination of nine instruments or voices.
- noun A composition written for such a combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a composition for nine voices or instruments. Also
nonetto .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music a composition written for nine instruments or nine voices
- noun a group of nine
nuclear orsubatomic particles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ground-breaking 1949 "Birth of the Cool" nonet famously only played one gig.
Female Leads, Classic Beats, Gil at St. Pete's Will Friedwald 2011
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He played and arranged for Bull Moose Jackson, the honking R&B tenor, his bop credentials include a nonet with Clifford Brown and he collaborated with John Coltrane on Mating Call in 1958.
Madd About Tadd Con Chapman 2011
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As a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and with his own bands especially Brass Fantasy, a brass-and-drums nonet, he embraced both avant-garde values and the techniques of jazz's earliest trumpeters, employing smears, blats, growls and half-valve winces in new ways.
Jazz Veteran Finds an Ecstatic Sound Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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The band has grown from a four-piece recording outfit to a nonet onstage, featuring a horn section trumpet, sax, trombone, bass, drums, percussion and keyboards.
Disco Balloons in Brooklyn Andy Beta 2011
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The nonet was nothing if not bold: What other band in a post-9/11 world would use its liner notes to diagram a connection between major record labels and the military industrial complex?
Pop and Circumstance Andy Beta 2011
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Kagan will want to be a force on the court, meaning (I'm just guessing here, but it makes sense if you read that Times profile) that she might want to be more of a conciliator, more of a power-player among the court's nonet rather its thundering dissenting voice on these questions.
Elena Kagan 2010
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On the new "Assume Crash Position," only the second studio album of Konono No. 1's 30-year career, the Congolese nonet tries a few variations on the sound that became a global cult sensation.
Konono No. 1 brings sounds of trance on junkyard instruments to Black Cat 2010
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New York It may seem surprising that Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis put themselves on the map as composer-auteurs at the same time in the same band — namely, the 1949 “Birth of the Cool” nonet led by Davis — since, in one key aspect at least, their mature music could not be more different.
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That suggests the varied interests that feed this nonet.
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One of the charms of How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry is that it has something for readers at all levels — from beginners to scholars who want to refresh their memories of what a nonet or tanka is.
E.O. Parrott’s Witty Guide to the Different Kinds of Poetry « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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