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American new wave band Oingo Boingo was an octet for most of its 17-year history, with 5 members in traditional rock music roles (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboard) plus a 3 person horn section. British pop group the Dooleys were an eight-member group popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Reich rescored it in 1983 to make performance easier, by adding a second string quartet, and retitling the work Eight Lines. The additional two violins solve "the difficulty of playing rather awkward double stops in tune," and the additional viola and cello "allow the rapid eighth-note patterns to be broken up between ... two players" to ...
This category is for musical groups that consist of eight members total at some point, long enough for critics to describe them as octets. For compositions, see Category:Compositions for octet . Subcategories
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, musical group, or a band is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra.
In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks that give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. The quark model underlies "flavor SU(3)" , or the Eightfold Way , the successful classification scheme organizing the large number of lighter hadrons that ...
The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923. Stravinsky’s Octet is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments : flute , clarinet in B ♭ and A, two bassoons , trumpet in C, trumpet in A, tenor trombone , and bass trombone.
Octet (computing), a grouping of eight bits Byte, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits . Octet stream, alternative name for byte stream ...
The formulae of simple oxyanions are determined by the octet rule. The corresponding oxyacid of an oxyanion is the compound H z A x O y. The structures of condensed oxyanions can be rationalized in terms of AO n polyhedral units with sharing of corners or edges between polyhedra.