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quintet

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Noun — A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)

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From French quintette, from Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth”), itself from Latin quintus, related to quīnque (“five”).

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