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A musical composition written for six performers
Answer for the clue "A musical composition written for six performers ", 6 letters:
sestet
Alternative clues for the word sestet
- New England's states, e.g
- Six-line poem
- Miltonic poem ender
- Certain musical group
- Petrarchan sonnet part
- Any stanza in Burns's "To a Mouse"
- Italian sonnet's "resolution," named for the number of lines it contains
- Bad Religion or Linkin Park
- Chamber-music group
- A set of six similar things considered as a unit
Usage examples of sestet.
The sestet ended in a drinking-shop not far from the Souk or Socco, over glasses of warmish pastis.
The octave typically introduces the theme or problem, with the sestet providing the resolution.
She could find no turn for the sestet to take, no epigram, no change of mood.
The octave for the public event, the sestet for the unchanging Marius or Mario.
It has fourteen lines that divide into an octave of a rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA and a sestet CDC DCD, really two tercets.
The sestet which followed, to complete the sonnet, was less derivative and therefore less successful, Dame Beatrice thought.