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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 piece was a commercial failure, but Adams kept the idea of repeating loops of oscillations on string instruments. He retitled the piece Shaker Loops, both because of the "shaking" of the strings as they oscillate between notes and the idea Adams had of Shakers dancing to repetitive, energetic music. [1]
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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.
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 ...
A theme in the music is a recognition that traditional jazz having reached a zenith in the early 1960s cannot be contained in reverence. [6] The Syncopated Taint Septet is a synthesis of traditional music with current and experimental music forms. [4] The project displays a band member equality with "leads being shared by everyone." [3]
The Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello is a Chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky. It was composed between July 1952 and February 1953, and the first performance took place at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., on 23 January 1954. The score is dedicated to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and ...