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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.
The Octet for strings in C major, Op. 7, is an octet composition for string instruments by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1900. Together with the Octet in F major, Op. 17 (1849) by Niels Gade , it is regarded as amongst the most notable successors to Felix Mendelssohn 's celebrated Octet, Op. 20 .
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 composer regarded this as a perfectly ordinary option, while pointing out "whether there are eight, nine, or ten performers, the piece is always musically an octet" (Reich 2002, 98). In 1985 New York City Ballet 's balletmaster Jerome Robbins made an eponymous ballet to this music ( Kisselgoff 1985 ).
Mendelssohn wrote his octet and gave a signed score to his friend and violin teacher Eduard Rietz as a birthday present. Rietz copied parts from the score to use for the premiere. The string octet was a fairly new genre of chamber music at the time, the most widely known genre of chamber music still being the string quartet. The genre was ...
Octet is a chamber choir musical written and composed by Dave Malloy and directed by Annie Tippe. The show "explores addiction and nihilism within the messy context of 21st century technology." The show "explores addiction and nihilism within the messy context of 21st century technology."
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.
Voces8, styled VOCES8, is an a cappella octet from England. They have appeared internationally and made recordings of classical music, jazz, pop, and their own arrangements. Recent recordings are for Decca Classics and under their own label, Voces8 Records. Educational efforts are run by the Voces8 Foundation.