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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ok-tet
Phonetic Transcription : ɒkˈtɛt



Definition of octet

  • As in eight : noun eight of something
  • As in ensemble : noun collection
Example sentences :
  • The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet.
  • Extract from : « Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches » by Maurice Baring
  • Sonata for piano, violin, and violoncello (from the Octet, Op. 103); pub.
  • Extract from : « Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) » by Elliott Graeme
  • Felix had not completed his seventeenth year when the Octet was written.
  • Extract from : « Story-Lives of Great Musicians » by Francis Jameson Rowbotham
  • Octet for wind instruments, in E flat major; composed in Bonn before 1792.
  • Extract from : « Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) » by Elliott Graeme
  • Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the Octet and the Trio in C minor.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • Moreover, his earlier chamber compositions were in three movements, the minuet having been added for the first time in the Octet.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3) » by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
  • The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.
  • Extract from : « Occult Chemistry » by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater
  • Miss Edith Williams, the member of the octet who fainted on the stage, swooned again soon after she took the witness stand.
  • Extract from : « Chicago's Awful Theater Horror » by Various
  • As an additional piece, an arrangement of a movement from Schubert's Octet was conceded.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2) » by Florence May

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