(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!"
Quintet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Quintette
Example Sentences:
(1) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(2) In the English-speaking cinema, Gassman was at his best working with Robert Altman in films (not, it is true, among the director's finest) like A Wedding (1978) and Quintet (1979).
(3) The senior quintet would be reduced to, at best, squad roles.
(4) The quintet have given Hunt until Monday to respond.
(5) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
(6) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
(7) Currently the focus of all the fuss is Room on Fire, the second album by New York quintet the Strokes.
(8) In Mackendrick's film, Guinness heads a gang disguised as a string quintet planning a heist from the home of an innocent old lady.
(9) The variation in longevity among quintets was large and the expression of genetic longevity interacted with the treatments.
(10) The only reason for Peter’s investment in Salford City is aligned with his personal philanthropic interest in youth development,” the spokesperson said, “and of course his support for the members of the class of 92.” The former United quintet said when announcing the deal they had known Lim for 10 years – initially this was through his ownership of United’s Red Cafe Asian franchise.
(11) Lawyers for the medical quintet challenging him in the high court claim that the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, in which the then health secretary Andrew Lansley set out to limit the health secretary’s power over the NHS, mean that Hunt was exceeding his powers by deciding on 11 February to impose the contract after two months of talks with the British Medical Association failed.
(12) The quintet of leg pain, weakness, edema, rectal mass, and hydronephrosis suggests plexopathy due to cancer.
(13) (Tata is shortly to retire but says at 75 his life's work won't be done, a sentiment of which the Britannia Unchained quintet would doubtless approve.)
(14) The low frequency shift of the quartet (0.31 ppm) and the quintet (0.62 ppm) from the triplet correlated with an increase in the number of 19F-ions in each complex.
(15) Alongside Corbyn and Watson’s own election, the quintet now at the top of the party is entirely male.
(16) I think all of our strikers need to be challenged,” said Hodgson, whose decision to bring a quintet of forwards to the finals already appears justified.
(17) After one show in their local neighbourhood, Este and Danielle were invited to be a part of a pop quintet called the Valli Girls .
(18) All have negative quadrupole interaction, and both this and the magnetic anisotropy imply that the orbital of the odd electron is prolate in the ground quintet, with little unquenched orbital angular momentum.
(19) It's even better when his friends arrive to rehearse for their amateur string quintet.
(20) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.