Octet may refer to:
Music
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Octet (music)
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.
Octets in classical music
Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music. Alt ...
, ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble
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String octet
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players. It usually consists of four violins, two violas and two cellos, or four violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass.
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, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
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Octet (Mendelssohn)
The String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, was written by the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn during the fall of 1825 and completed on October 15. Written for four violins, two violas, and two cellos, this work created a new chamber music genre. Conra ...
, 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn
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Octet (Bruch)
The String Octet in B major, Op. posth., was composed by Max Bruch for four violins, two violas, cello and double bass. Completed in 1920, the year of his death, it is his last work and would not be published until 1996. The work is also known u ...
, 1920 composition by Max Bruch
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Octet (Beethoven) The Octet in E-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 103, is a work for two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns. Beethoven wrote the work in 1792 in Bonn before he established himself in Vienna. He reworked and expanded the Octet i ...
, 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Octet (Lachner) Franz Lachner's Octet in B-flat major, Op. 156 is a composition for eight wind instruments composed around 1850. While scored for a chamber ensemble, the work is considered to be symphonic in scope.
Instrumentation
The composition is scored for f ...
, 1850 composition by Franz Lachner
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''Octet'' (Reich), 1979 composition by Steve Reich
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Octet (Reinecke) Carl Reinecke's Octet in B-flat major, Op. 216 is a composition for eight wind instruments composed around 1892.
Background
The exact reason for the composition of the Octet is not known, though Hoover speculates that it may have been intended for ...
,1892 composition by Carl Reinicke
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Octet (Schubert)
The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death ...
, 1824 composition by Franz Schubert
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Octet (Stravinsky), 1923 composition by Igor Stravinsky
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Violin octet
The violin octet is a family of stringed instruments developed in the 20th century primarily under the direction of the American luthier Carleen Hutchins. Each instrument is based directly on the traditional violin and shares its acoustical prop ...
, a family of stringed instruments
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''Octet'' (musical), a musical by Dave Malloy
Ballet
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''Octet'' (Christensen), 1958 ballet by Willam Christensen
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''Octet'' (Martins), 2003 ballet by Peter Martins
Science and technology
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Octet (computing)
The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of s ...
, a grouping of eight bits
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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable uni ...
, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits
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byte stream
A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits.
A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an 8-bit quantity, and so the term octet stream is sometimes used interchangeably. An octet may ...
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Octet rule
The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas. The rul ...
, chemical theory stating that atoms tend to combine so they each have eight valence electrons
* Octet truss, type of
space frame
See also
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8 (disambiguation)
8 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
8 or eight may also refer to:
Years
* AD 8, the eighth year of the AD era
* 8 BC, the eighth year before the AD era
Art
* The Eight (Ashcan School), a group of twentieth century painters associated with the ...
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Eightfold Way (physics), theory organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets
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Octal
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the radix, base-8 number system, and uses the Numerical digit, digits 0 to 7. This is to say that 10octal represents eight and 100octal represents sixty-four. However, English, like most languages, ...
, base-8 number system
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Octave (poetry)
An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is ABBA ABBA.
An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends ...
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Octetra
''Octetra'' is a concrete sculpture by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) from 1968.
Description
It is an abstract painted concrete sculpture. It was designed to be a play structure.
History
It was first exhibited near Spoleto Cathedral
There are exa ...
'', a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
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Okta, a meteorological unit of measurement of cloud cover in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in clouds
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