quintette

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Delightful music; two quartettes of Beethoven's, a quintette of Mozart's, which I heard at Joseph Coolidge's some thirty or more years ago.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

All of these movements are performed without pause, and the result is so successful that Whiting is using the same plan for a quintette.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

At Lyons the quintette dissolved with emotional embraces, the four going westward, and he northward in the night train.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

They would have a quintette of the same stripe with which to deal.

From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Lester, Pauline

We wanted to mark ourselves in some way so that we could be told by one another, so we put on each back in black chalk a mystic V, standing for five, our quintette.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell