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• n  the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
• n  eight performers or singers who perform together
• n  a set of eight similar things considered as a unit
• n  eight people considered as a unit
• n  a musical composition written for eight performers

• In his warscape, an octet of eight rambunctious Jews most of them American but a couple German have been set loose with the mission to kill and disfigure the enemy army.
• Before long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16.
• And the octet learned from the natives as it went along.

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• eightsome

News & Articles

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• The Mowgli's Take Fans on a Double Decker Bus Trek Through NYC: Live Report
  A press release for the Mowgli's describes the group as the "quintessential California band," and the folk-pop octet most assuredly belongs to the...
  July 10, 2013 - Billboard

Quotes

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• Dave Holland in JazzTimes Magazine
  Some of the compositions that I've written in the past evolve in my mind a little bit over time,Holland says in a press release, adding that "One of the advantages of the sextet is that it's still a smaller unit than big band or octet, but...