quintette

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A full turn out of all college societies and classes is requested in order to fitly welcome this noted quintette.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

This summons from Mr. Tucker had upset her recently acquired politeness and all day she found something to pick on our quintette.

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

The quintette required four horns in B♭ over 8 ft. long and one B♭ basso about 17 ft. long.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

That quintette of Hummel's is a most charming composition—so flowing and elegant—and one can display a good deal of virtuosity in the last part of it.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

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