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The Aman jazz octet. Jazz ensembles of eight players will frequently be termed an octet. These ensembles may be for any combination of instruments, but the most common line-up is trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, guitar, piano, bass and drums, with guitar occasionally making way for another horn, for example baritone sax.
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
The terms duo, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet, and decet describe groups of two up to ten musicians, respectively. A group of eleven musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals , is called an undecet , and a group of twelve is called a duodecet (see Latin numerical prefixes ).
The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of sizes.
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players. [1] It usually consists of four violins , two violas and two cellos , or four violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass .
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 ...
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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.