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Definition of Quartette
1. Noun. Four performers or singers who perform together.
Generic synonyms: Musical Group, Musical Organisation, Musical Organization
Specialized synonyms: Barbershop Quartet, String Quartet, String Quartette
2. Noun. A set of four similar things considered as a unit.
3. Noun. Four people considered as a unit. "The foursome teed off before 9 a.m."
Generic synonyms: Assemblage, Gathering
Specialized synonyms: Quadrumvirate
4. Noun. A musical composition for four performers.
Generic synonyms: Composition, Musical Composition, Opus, Piece, Piece Of Music
Definition of Quartette
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of quartet) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quartette
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartette
Literary usage of Quartette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"All the divisions of this cell except the first one are purely bilateral in position.
IV. HISTORY OF THE FIRST quartette OF ..."
2. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"THE quartette The tricksy Monkey, the Goat, the Ass, and bandy-legged Mishka ...
But the quartette is as unmusical as ever. Louder than before there arose ..."
3. Music (1897)
"The third of the Spiering quartette concerts took place in Handel Hall. ...
The quartette had naturally a more arduous task than in the Beethoven quartette ..."
4. Folio (1885)
"quartette in G, with solue for soprano and bass While. All the Earth is glad again.
quartette in Bb White. Christmas Anthem. quartette in F, with soprano ..."
5. In a Persian Garden: A Song-cycle for Four Solo Voices (soprano, Contralto by Liza Lehmann, Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1896)
"CONTAINING quartette—Wake ! for the sun who scatter'd into flight. SOLO TENOR—Before
the phantom ... quartette—Come till the cup, and in the tire of spring. ..."
6. The Early Development of Planorbis by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1900)
"The Fourth quartette. —The fourth quartette is produced by a ... The number of
cells in the egg when the fourth quartette is formed is forty-nine. ..."