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Answer for the clue "Music piece ", 4 letters:
duet
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Word definitions for duet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1740, from French duet , from Italian duetto "short musical composition for two voices," diminutive of duo "two" (see two ). As a verb, from 1822. The Italian form of the noun was used in English from c.1724.
Usage examples of duet.
Look, Lackwit hath learned that he truly lacks wit, and that Amoroso and Belinda are about to sing their love duet to signify that the play is over, and that he was cuckolded before he even wed his Mistress and made her wife!
Craig recognized the high clear duet of a pair of collared barbets in an acacia tree beside the track.
The concert began by a magnificent symphony, after which Laschi and Baglioni sang a duet with great talent and much taste.
I came upon the device of having Clocker and Doc Hawkins do a duet, with a chorus effect from the other characters.
So did soft-singing Tom Paxton and Tom Rush and a rapid-fire acoustic guitarist named Danny Kalb, who did duets with Van Ronk and the great Phil Ochs before Danny helped put together the short-lived but electrifying Blues Project in the late 1960s.
Still, we ended the evening very agreeably, prating about the Bendas in the library: we might play some of their duets that I brought with me when we have finished our wine.
C minor quartette, D major symphony, a concerto by Bach, played by Fanny, and a duet for two pianos.
I was reluctant to comply, as I was not considered a solo singer, my place was always in quartette work and duets.
The sackers barked their staccato duet again, and this time plumes of timber and debris rose above the town.
Mixolydian ensembles are those with two females participating, except for Aeolian Duets, where the whole ensemble is female.
The duet, between Almaviva and Figaro, was sung amid hisses, shrieks, and shouts.
With the two duets she was obedient, tamely accepting the harmonies of the composer, but on the final tenor solo, she played with the music a little, embroidering a little here, echoing a little there.
In fact, I think he spends more and more time with us, for he and Nannie have started in to play violin and piano duets together, and he comes one week-evening to practise.
With the exception of a short visit in the study, he spent the evening with us in the schoolroom, hearing all that has happened to us since he went away, and playing violin and piano duets with Nannie and me.
So what with working and housekeeping, and lessons to Charley, and backgammon in the evening with my guardian, and duets with Ada, the three weeks slipped fast away.