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Definition of Sestet
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
Generic synonyms: Digit, Figure
2. Noun. Six performers or singers who perform together.
Generic synonyms: Musical Group, Musical Organisation, Musical Organization
3. Noun. A set of six similar things considered as a unit.
4. Noun. A musical composition written for six performers.
Generic synonyms: Composition, Musical Composition, Opus, Piece, Piece Of Music
5. Noun. A rhythmic group of six lines of verse.
Definition of Sestet
1. n. A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
Definition of Sestet
1. Noun. (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. ¹
2. Noun. (poetry) The last six lines of a poem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sestet
1. a stanza of six lines [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sestet
Literary usage of Sestet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Sterndale Bennett's sestet for piano and strings, a very early work (op. ...
The sestet in ' Lucia ' was long famous, and there is a very fine specimen in ..."
2. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"The sestet eases the load, resolves the problem or the doubt, answers the query,
... Hence, too, the briefer but more varied sound-scheme of the sestet; ..."
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