quintette
Chamber music group
Quintette is a variant spelling of quintet—a group of five, especially five musicians performing together or a musical composition written for five instruments or voices.
The spelling with -ette follows French convention and appears occasionally in classical music contexts, though quintet is now standard in English.
Four plus one
- fivefoldFive times as much
- pentadA group of five
- quintGroup of five
- quintupletsFive offspring, one birth
Enclosed room or cavity
- musiciansPeople who create music
- groupAssembled collection of things
- performanceCarrying out a task
- recitalSolo musical performance
string · woodwind · brass · piano · vocal · band · combo · collective
five
Four plus one
quintuplets · cinque · fifth
chamber
Enclosed room or cavity
- musiciansPeople who create music
- groupAssembled collection of things
- performanceCarrying out a task
recital · string · woodwind · brass · piano · vocal · band · combo · collective · assembly
voices
Sounds producing speech
consonance · balance · counterpoint · polyphony · interplay · texture · chord · voicing · ensemble · synchrony
movement
Change in position
- opusNumbered artistic creation
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
piece · work · sonata · serenade · divertimento · nocturne · scherzo · allegro · adagio · andante
- string quintetFive-stringed-instrument ensemble
- jazz quintetFive-member improvisation ensemble
- brass quintetFive-piece horn ensemble
- piano quintetFive-player chamber group