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du·et

(do͞o-ĕt′, dyo͞o-)

1. Music

a. A composition for two voices or two instruments.

b. A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.

2. A pair.

intr.v. du·et·ted, du·et·ting, du·ets

To perform a duet.

[Italian duetto, diminutive of duo, from Latin, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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duet

(djuːˈɛt)

1. (Music, other) Also called (esp for instrumental compositions): duo a musical composition for two performers or voices

2. an action or activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals

vb, duets, duetting or duetted

(Music, other) (intr) to perform a duet

[C18: from Italian duetto a little duet, from duo duet, from Latin: two]

duˈettist n

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du•et

(duˈɛt, dyu-)

n., v. -et•ted, -et•ting. n.

1. a musical composition for two voices or instruments.

v.i.

2. to perform a duet.

[1730–40; earlier duett < Italian duetto=du(o) duet + -etto -et]

Duet

two or more birds; a musical arrangement for two performers, hence, the collective term for the performers; two matching items.

Examples: duet of doves; of gowns [same colour], 1890; of turtles, 1486.

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Noun	1.	duet - two items of the same kind couplet, distich, duad, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple fellow, mate - one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" 2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
	2.	duet - two performers or singers who perform together duette, duo musical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together
	3.	duet - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" couple, twosome, duo pair - two people considered as a unit same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated"
	4.	duet - a musical composition for two performers duette, duo primo - the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) secondo - the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet) musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
	5.	duet - (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) pas de deux dancing, terpsichore, dance, saltation - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music adagio - a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers ballet, concert dance - a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers

duet

noun

Two items of the same kind together:

brace, couple, couplet, doublet, duo, match, pair, two, twosome, yoke.

Translations

ثُنائي

dueto

duetduo

Duett

duo duetto

duettduókettős

dúett, tvísöngur; tvíleikur

duetto duo

duetas

duets

duet duo

duett

дуэт

dueto

duet

düet

二重唱二重奏

duet

[djuːˈet] N (= players, composition) → dúo m
to sing/play a duet → cantar/tocar a dúo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

duet

[djuːˈɛt] n → duo m

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duet

n → Duo nt; (for voices) → Duett nt; violin duet → Geigenduo nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

duet

[djuːˈɛt] n → duetto
to sing/play a duet → cantare/suonare un duetto
a violin/piano duet (performance) → un duetto al violino/al piano (composition) → un duetto per violino/per piano

duet

(djuˈet) noun

a musical piece for two singers or players. a piano duet.

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Here, Allan Schiller (a one-time student of Matthews) and John Humphreys were the duettists, always alert to Schubert's grace and Brahms's flourishes, but without excess.

Denis Matthews Centenary Celebration Concert; REVIEW

A backbiting violin section, duettists whose honest feedback to one another is less welcome than first thought, and a tuner who sets a pianist on edge: in this trio of short fictions, musicians' souls sometimes synchronize while tempers nearly snap.

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Weekley, Arganbright Contribute Repertoire

The festival started yesterday at Holmfirth Civic Hall which resonated to the sound of 36 young pianists, eight sets of piano duettists and four childrens choirs.

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Concerning "ensemble" duettists Dallas and Nancy Arganbright Weekley state that "the secret to sounding as one is to have one competent, confident leader and one sensitive, alert accompanist" (1996, p.

Piano concertos, children, and social cognitive theory

Punto, along with the horn duettists of the Oettingen-Wallerstein court, Carl Turrschmiedt (1753-1797), and Johann Palsa (1754-1792), inspired the French horn maker Lucien-Joseph Raoux to make silver horns of Turrschmiedt's design in 1781.

The singing style of the Bohemians: part 1--a 300 year tradition of Czech horn playing

Comic duettists Mr and Mrs Leno and their clog-dancing sons had been engaged to appear at the Adelphi Theatre in Liverpool's Christian Street.

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There is a contest between pipe and electronic organ on Monday, September 21, a Spanish guitar recital by Jonathan Richards on Tuesday, a cello and piano duo of Edward Furse and Craig White on Wednesday and on Friday piano duettists Helen and Harvey Davies.

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The full range of Irish genres--from dancers, vocalists and duettists to 'low' or knockabout comedy--is demonstrated by the list of Irish performers that appeared at the hall in the course of a single year, 1885.