单词 | sestet |
释义 | sestetn. 1. Music. A composition for six voices or instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > pieces for specific number of performers > [noun] > sestet sextet1791 sestetto1801 sestet1811 sextuor1824 sextetto1841 sestuor1862 1811 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 3) Sestetto or Sestett, (Ital.), a composition, vocal or instrumental, consisting of six distinct parts. 1874 F. A. G. Ouseley Musical Form 52 Thus are constructed..sestetts, septetts, and ottetts. 1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 475/2 Instrumental sestets are of two kinds; those for strings only..and those for various combinations of strings, wind and pianoforte. 2. Prosody. The last six lines of a sonnet. Cf. octave v., octet n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > sextet > sestet of sonnet sesteta1859 a1859 L. Hunt Bk. Sonn. (1867) I. 10 The Minor division [of the Italian sonnet consists] of six lines, called the Sestette. 1881 Athenæum 8 Oct. 459/3 The regular sonnet of octave and sestet. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 325 This rhythmic variation of the order in the sestet rhymes. 1896 E. Gosse Crit. Kit-kats 7 No fault can be found with the structure of her [Mrs. Browning's] octetts and sestetts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811 |
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