(n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both Jones and Cullum played a number of live tracks and sang a duet too, and this is the new programme's backbone.
(2) Alicia Keys and John Legend will duet on Let It Be , while John Mayer has agreed to join country singer Keith Urban for a rendition of Don't Let Me Down .
(3) The album is John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas's album Two Pianos, featuring duets by Mozart, Brahms and Lutosławski.
(4) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
(5) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
(6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
(7) This resulted in significant changes in frequency of duetting.
(8) He seems equally startled when talk turns to his 1989 remake of Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart, the duet with gay icon Marc Almond that returned him to the top of the British charts 15 years after his last hit.
(9) It is understood that the letter raises issues such as noise – in July Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney's microphones were switched off during a duet due to curfew issues .
(10) Susan Boyle and Elvis Presley's duet, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful", is released today – all proceeds go to Save the Children .
(11) Within a week we’ve heard that the acclaimed singer-songwriters Ed Harcourt and Kathryn Williams are willing to sing our duet.
(12) He's had a few close shaves (a duet with Cocteau Twins' Liz Frazer and an appearance on The One Show spring to mind) but the idea of maintaining a fanbase, even a cult one, is alien to Lawrence.
(13) A film he was to star in about the Silk Road, written by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's president, seems however to have broken down in the wake of bitter family infighting – but they'll always have the duet they recorded together, How Dare .
(14) Any Moldy Peach diehards balking at the idea of Green duetting with someone other than Dawson are missing out, though: this record sounds as though he and Shapiro have known each other for ever.
(15) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
(16) Duets are Maliphant's forte – even his solos often feel like duets, in which one of the partners is light, space or sound.
(17) I've got a new duet, as we call them, out now, or coming out now.
(18) A couple of years later, Wright and Jack Anglin formed a duet act, Johnnie & Jack, and she toured with them in the then conventional role of the "girl singer".
(19) On Saturday's show, the four remaining finalists will compete with each other by singing solo and duetting with established acts before two rounds of voting leave two acts in a head-to-head on Sunday's show.
(20) Apart from a brief and unhappy appearance on the BBC's Just the Two of Us (a celebrity duet singing contest in which she was partnered with Alexander O'Neal) in 2006 – "Never again!"
Quartet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Quartette
Example Sentences:
(1) The Libya Quartet, which includes the Africa Union, the European Union and the Arab League, is likely to discuss the massacre of up to 140 civilians and soldiers at an airbase in southern Libya in one of the single most shocking incidents since the civil war started in 2011.
(2) 19F NMR spectra of the complexes showed that the spin-coupled quartet of each complex was progressively shifted to higher frequency with an increase in the number of F- ions in the complex.
(3) "Settlement activity is detrimental to current peace efforts, including by the Quartet [the UN, EU, US and Russia], and puts those efforts at risk," she said.
(4) From the early beginning of the 32-cell stage, all four macromeres introdude far into the interior and tough the centrally radiating cells of the first quartet of micromeres.
(5) For many reasons, not the least of which is his role as the representative of the Middle East Quartet , Mr Blair has built a network of lucrative contracts in the region since he stepped down as prime minister in 2007.
(6) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
(7) Formation of the K(+)-stabilized G-quartet structure in a primer inhibits its use by telomerase.
(8) An XI that showed only Morgan Schneiderlin as a bona fide central midfielder meant the manager was shifting shape from his usual 4-2-3-1 to a loose 4-1-4-1, in which the middle quartet formed a diamond with Wayne Rooney at its tip behind Marcus Rashford.
(9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
(10) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
(11) She said foreign ministers of the quartet of international peace mediators - the US, the EU, Russia and the UN - would hold a telephone conference during the day to discuss developments in the Palestinian territories .
(12) The frequencies of R-Y doublets, triplets and quartets in each were calculated.
(13) A weight had been lifted from all these players' shoulders, with this a moment for all to savour, an invitation extended even to the quartet who had been suspended against Bayern.
(14) And he says he takes great care to avoid conflicts of interest: for example, doing no business in Israel or the Palestinian territories, to avoid damaging his credibility there as the quartet's representative.
(15) Subsequent reaction of the excited quartet state involves hydrogen atom abstraction from a tryptophan residue.
(16) Gove, a member of the so called "quartet" running the party's election campaign, has made little secret of his unease.
(17) This Friday, 27 June, will mark the seven-year anniversary of Tony Blair's appointment as the Quartet representative to the Middle East.
(18) But the Quartet plan faces a major obstacle from a Palestinian insistence that it require Israel to halt all settlement construction during talks.
(19) The defence is well structured and they have a quartet of forwards that are very fast, with one very skilful player like Musa.
(20) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.