Nonet

Word NONET
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Definitions and meanings of "Nonet"

What do we mean by nonet?

A combination of nine instruments or voices. noun

A composition written for such a combination. noun

In music, a composition for nine voices or instruments. Also nonetto. noun

A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices. noun

A composition written for nine instruments or nine voices noun

A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles noun

A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.

A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles.

A byte of nine bits.

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The word "nonet" in example sentences

The ground-breaking 1949 "Birth of the Cool" nonet famously only played one gig. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

The nonet was nothing if not bold: What other band in a post-9/11 world would use its liner notes to diagram a connection between major record labels and the military industrial complex? ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

He played and arranged for Bull Moose Jackson, the honking R&B tenor, his bop credentials include a nonet with Clifford Brown and he collaborated with John Coltrane on Mating Call in 1958. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

As a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and with his own bands especially Brass Fantasy, a brass-and-drums nonet, he embraced both avant-garde values and the techniques of jazz's earliest trumpeters, employing smears, blats, growls and half-valve winces in new ways. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

The band has grown from a four-piece recording outfit to a nonet onstage, featuring a horn section trumpet, sax, trombone, bass, drums, percussion and keyboards. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

On the new "Assume Crash Position," only the second studio album of Konono No. 1's 30-year career, the Congolese nonet tries a few variations on the sound that became a global cult sensation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kagan will want to be a force on the court, meaning (I'm just guessing here, but it makes sense if you read that Times profile) that she might want to be more of a conciliator, more of a power-player among the court's nonet rather its thundering dissenting voice on these questions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New York It may seem surprising that Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis put themselves on the map as composer-auteurs at the same time in the same band — namely, the 1949 “Birth of the Cool” nonet led by Davis — since, in one key aspect at least, their mature music could not be more different. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mike Zwerin, the young trombonist in that '48 live-performance unit (but not on the records), reversed the career arc of several nonet members: After first working in Davis's group, he later played with the Claude Thornhill band -- albeit a much-diminished 1958 touring outfit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That suggests the varied interests that feed this nonet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the charms of How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry is that it has something for readers at all levels — from beginners to scholars who want to refresh their memories of what a nonet or tanka is. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Players for this nonet were chosen (including several Thornhill veterans). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The nonet was booked for a few weeks 'work at the Royal Roost, a jazz venue on Broadway. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the "Birth of the Cool" mystique grows: This February, jazz-drummer and writer Bill Moody published "Shades of Blue" (Poisoned Pen Press), a contemporary mystery novel turning on events surrounding the Davis nonet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The nonet attracted the attention of a Capitol Records executive who made sure it recorded a total of 12 numbers in 1949 and 1950 -- tracks that came out first on 78-rpm singles, then on a 10-inch long-playing disc, and, in 1957, on a 12-inch album at last titled "Birth of the Cool." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Konitz was playing in Miles Davis's nonet way back in 1949, so it's not a small matter that he's still around and blowing. ❋ Shunn (2003)

He has assembled a squad of crack musicians (including pianist John Hicks, alto saxophonist Steve Slagle and trumpeter Tim Hagans) to play nonet arrangements of classic bebop which then breaks down in modular fashion into smaller groups to blow more freely. ❋ Unknown (2000)

That said, not all of the nonet tunes seem completely realized. ❋ Unknown (2000)

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