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Quintet

noun

A musical composition for five performers. Synonym: quintette.

The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one. Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintuplet, V.

Five performers or singers who perform together. Synonym: quintette.

A set of five similar things considered as a unit. Synonyms: quintette, quintuple, quintuplet.

Five people considered as a unit. Synonyms: fivesome, quintette.

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... in Mozart's Zauberfloete overture, the andantes of Beethoven's first symphony and C minor quartet, or the first and second subjects of the finale of Mozart's G major quartet, the second subject of the finale of his D major quintet, and the exposition of quintuple counterpoint in the coda of the finale of the Jupiter Symphony, and countless other passages in the developments and main subjects of classical and modern works in sonata form. The ordinary use of the ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 - "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" • Various

... the second part of the music with which Papageno sets the blackamoors to dancing in "Die Zauberflote"), the orchestra talks of the matronly renunciation of the princess, enthusiastic Straussians of a musical parallel with the quintet from Wagner's "Meistersinger," and the opera comes to an end after three and one-half hours of more or less unintelligible dialogue ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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