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Group portrait of septet of jazz musicians with instruments and trophy, ca. 1920. A septet is a formation containing exactly seven members. It is commonly associated with musical groups but can be applied to any situation where seven similar or related objects are considered a single unit, such as a seven-line stanza of poetry.
The scoring of the Septet for a single clarinet, horn and bassoon (rather than for pairs of these wind instruments) was innovative. So was the unusually prominent role of the clarinet, as important as the violin. The Septet was one of Beethoven's most successful and popular works and circulated in many editions and arrangements for different ...
All six pieces are scored for torviseitsikko [] (in Swedish: hornseptett), a "specifically Finnish" kind of brass septet [1] that originated in 1870 [b] when the Finnish composer, music arranger, and military band leader Adolf Leander [] founded the first torviseitsikko within the Guards' Band, [c] the premiere ensemble of the Finnish Defense Forces (then in service to the Russian tsar ...
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Shaker Loops is a 1978 composition by American composer John Adams, originally written for string septet.The original "modular" score, published by Associated Music Publisher, has since been withdrawn and replaced by a 1983 string orchestra version.
Chôros No. 7, subtitled "Settimino" (Septet), is an instrumental septet written in 1924 by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.It is part of a series of fourteen numbered compositions collectively titled Chôros, ranging from solos for guitar and for piano up to works scored for soloist or chorus with orchestra or multiple orchestras, and in duration up to over an hour.