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Sestet   Listen
noun
Sestet  n.  
1.
(Mus.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; called also sestuor. (Written also sestett, sestette)
2.
(Poet.) The last six lines of a sonnet.





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"Sestet" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'The sestet of the Purcell sonnet is not so clearly worked out as I could wish. The thought is that as the seabird opening his wings with a whiff of wind in your face means the whirr of the motion, but also unaware gives you a whiff of knowledge ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins


Words linked to "Sestet" :   hexad, figure, sextette, six, sixer, stanza, half a dozen, sextet, musical group, sise, sextuplet, opus, musical organization, composition, set, musical organisation, musical composition, vi, piece, Captain Hicks, 6


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