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Sextet (other)
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A sextet is a group of six people working together, usually musicians. Sextet may also refer to: * Sextet (Penderecki), a 2000 chamber music composition by Krzysztof Penderecki * Sextet (Poulenc), a 1931/32 chamber music composition by Francis Poulenc * Sextet (Reich), a 1985 chamber music composition by Steve Reich * ''Sextet'' (Carla Bley album), 1987 * ''Sextet'' (A Certain Ratio album), 1982 * Sextet, in computing units of information, a group of 6 bits See also * :Compositions for string sextet * Sextet for Horns and String Quartet (Beethoven) (c. 1795) * ''Sextette'', a 1978 film starring Mae West * * * Hexad (other) Hexad ('group of 6') or hexade may refer to: * Hexad (musical formation), or sextet * Hexad (chord), a six-note series * Hexad (computing), a 6-bit group See also * * 6 * Sextet (other) *Pentad (other) Pentad ('group of 5') or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet
A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members. The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit. Musical compositions with six parts are sextets. Many musical compositions are named for the number of musicians for which they are written. If a piece is written for six performers, it may be called a "sextet". Steve Reich's "Sextet", for example, is written for six percussionists. However, much as many string quartets do not include "string quartet" in the title (though many do), many sextets do not include "sextet" in their title. See: string sextet and piano sextet. In jazz music a sextet is any group of six players, usually containing a drum set (bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat, ride cymbal), string bass or electric bass, piano, and various combinations of the following or other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet (Penderecki)
The Sextet is a two-movement composition for clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, and piano by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The composition was written in 2000 and is, according to some critics, the composer's most substantial chamber work. Composition This composition takes approximately 30 minutes to perform. The movement list is as follows: # Allegro moderato # Larghetto Given its very unusual nature, for Penderecki's chamber music is rare, the melodic lines of this composition are very well defined, because Penderecki usually writes scores for large orchestras and ensembles. This work is remarkable for its chromatic scales, present all along the piece. This sextet was commissioned by Auftragswerk der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and was eventually premiered on June 7, 2000 in Vienna's Musikverein by Paul Meyer (clarinet), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn), Julian Rachlin (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), fellow musician Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), and Dmitri Alexeev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet (Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc's ''Sextuor'' (Sextet), FP 100, is a chamber music piece written for a standard wind quintet ( flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn) and piano. Estimates about the time of its composition range from between 1931 and 1932 and 1932 alone. It received its debut in 1933 but was later revised in 1939. Performed in its entirety, the three-movement piece lasts approximately 18 minutes. Background Francis Poulenc, though rejected by the director of the Paris Conservatoire for the tendency of his compositional style to be overly progressive, was the most prolific member of the group of 20th-century French composers known as Les Six. In his Sextet there are obvious influences of the incidental music heard during the group's weekend visits to the circus as well as their general adherence to the melodic precedents set forth by Satie. Poulenc composed the piece around the same time as his cantata ''Le Bal Masqué'' and Concerto for Two Pianos. Structure and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet (Reich)
''Sextet'' is a composition by American composer Steve Reich. The piece was written and first performed in 1984, and slightly revised in 1985. Overview As the title indicates, it is written for an ensemble of six: four percussionists and two keyboardists. The percussionists play (at various times) three marimbas, two vibraphones, two bass drums, crotales, sticks, and tam-tam. Two percussionists double on piano during the opening "Pulse" section. The keyboardists play both pianos and synthesizers set to an electric organ sound. The piece is broken into five movements and, like many other Reich compositions, Sextet has an arch form: A-B-C-B-A. The paired movements share a tempo and a particular cycle of chords. These cycles use dominant chords with added tones to give it a darker, more chromatic sound, much like Reich's previous piece, ''The Desert Music''. A typical performance lasts about 26 minutes. Analysis ''Sextet'' plays with two aspects of music. First, it tries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet (Carla Bley Album)
''Sextet'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception 's Richard S. Ginell stated: "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner".Ginell, R. S. |
Sextet (A Certain Ratio Album)
''Sextet'' is the third album by English band A Certain Ratio, released in 1982 by record label Factory. It is the first album by the band not to be produced by Martin Hannett. The album spent eleven weeks in the UK Independent Chart, peaking at number 1.Lazell, Barry (1997) ''Indie Hits 1980–1989'', Cherry Red Books, , p. 1 Critical reception The album generally received critical acclaim. Writing in '' Smash Hits'' on the album's release in January 1982, Dave Rimmer noted that the album featured "dense and gloomy pieces", suitable for "the bleak mid-winter". He gave the album an overall 6 out of 10.The Quietus called it "a visionary musical statement" and "arguably their greatest moment ..Not since PIL's dominant '''Metal Box''' had a band so seamlessly traversed such an unexpectedly broad musical landscape." Stylus called the album "a masterpiece ..a mesmerizing blend of ethnic rhythms and ghostly production that really sounds like nothing else." Douglas Wolk of Pitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Units Of Information
In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure information contained in messages and the entropy of random variables. The most commonly used units of data storage capacity are the bit, the capacity of a system that has only two states, and the byte (or octet), which is equivalent to eight bits. Multiples of these units can be formed from these with the SI prefixes (power-of-ten prefixes) or the newer IEC binary prefixes (power-of-two prefixes). Primary units In 1928, Ralph Hartley observed a fundamental storage principle, which was further formalized by Claude Shannon in 1945: the information that can be stored in a system is proportional to the logarithm of ''N'' possible states of that system, denoted . Changing the base of the logarithm from ''b'' to a diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sextet A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members. The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet For Horns And String Quartet (Beethoven)
The Sextet for Horns and String Quartet, Op. 81b, was written by composer Ludwig van Beethoven, probably around 1795, and published by Simrock Verlag in 1810. It is in the key of E major and is scored for two horns and a string quartet. It was probably modelled on the Horn Quintet in the same key by Mozart ( K. 407) and like the earlier work it is written in a concertante style, with virtuosic writing for the two horns. Background Prior to the publication by Simrock in 1810, nothing is known about the circumstances of the piece's composition beyond the existence of a few sketches that confirm the work was composed in the mid 1790s. The concertante nature of the piece, has led writers like John Henken to speculate that the piece may have been written for specific Bonn-based performers, and to express surprise that more is not known about the work's early history. Structure The piece consists of three movements: The typical performance time is around 15 - 17 minutes. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextette
''Sextette'' is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Ken Hughes and released by Crown International Pictures. It stars Mae West, alongside an ensemble cast including Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon. Produced by Daniel Briggs, Robert Sullivan and Harry Weiss for the production company Briggs and Sullivan, the screenplay was dramatized for the screen by Herbert Baker, from West's final stage performance play of the same title, later renamed ''Sextet'', which West herself had written (based on a story idea by Charlotte Francis) and originally performed in 1961. Costumes were designed by Edith Head. Filmed at Paramount Studios, ''Sextette'' was West's final film, as well as that of Pidgeon and Moon. Featured were cameos by Rona Barrett, Regis Philbin and George Raft, all of whom appeared as themselves. The film was a major box office bomb, grossing just $50,000 against an estimated budget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
