Decet
Decet may refer to : *In music, a decet (music), decet —sometimes dectet, decimette, or even tentet—is a composition which requires ten musicians for a performance. *Decet Romanum Pontificem (1521) is the papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther. *Romanum decet pontificem is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent XII (1691—1700) on June 22, 1692, banning the office of Cardinal Nephew. {{disambiguation ...
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Decet (music)
In music, a decet—sometimes dectet, decimette, or even tentet—is a composition which requires ten musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of ten people. The corresponding German word is Dezett, the French is dixtuor. Unlike some other musical ensembles such as the string quartet, there is no established or standard set of instruments in a decet. History Of the ensemble types named according to the number of musicians in the group, the decet and the larger undecet, duodecet, etc., are names less common in music than smaller groupings. In the eighteenth century, ten-part ensembles were most often encountered in the genre of the wind serenade, or divertimento (for example, Mozart, K. 186 and 166, both for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 English horns, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons). Because the wind-serenade tradition was carried on during the 19th century primarily in France, the term ''dixtuor'' is somewhat more widely used in French than is its English equivalent, and ...
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