Octet may refer to:
Music
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Octet (music)
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight Musical instrument, instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.
Octets in classical music
Octets in European classical music, classical music are one ...
, ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble
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String octet
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players.Riemann, Hugo. Dictionary of Music'. Trans. J.A. Shedlock. Augener, 1900. 550. It usually consists of four violins, two violas and t ...
, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
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Octet (Mendelssohn)
The String Octet in E-flat major, Opus number, Op. 20, Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis, MWV R 20, was written by the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn during the fall of 1825 and completed on October 15. Written for four violins, two violas, and two cell ...
, 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn
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Octet (Bruch)
The String Octet in B major, Op. posth., was composed by Max Bruch for four violins, two violas, cello and double bass. Completed in 1920, the year of his death, it is his last work and would not be published until 1996. The work is also known un ...
, 1920 composition by Max Bruch
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Octet (Beethoven) The Octet in E-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven, Opus number, Op. 103, is a work for two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horn (instrument), horns. Beethoven wrote the work in 1792 in Bonn before he established himself in Vienna. He rew ...
, 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Octet (Lachner) Franz Lachner's Octet in B-flat major, Op. 156 is a composition for eight wind instruments composed around 1850. While scored for a chamber ensemble, the work is considered to be symphonic in scope.
Instrumentation
The composition is scored for fl ...
, 1850 composition by Franz Lachner
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''Octet'' (Reich), 1979 composition by Steve Reich
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Octet (Reinecke) Carl Reinecke's Octet in B-flat major, Op. 216 is a composition for eight wind instruments composed around 1892.
Background
The exact reason for the composition of the Octet is not known, though Hoover speculates that it may have been intended for ...
,1892 composition by Carl Reinicke
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Octet (Schubert)
The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Dea ...
, 1824 composition by Franz Schubert
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Octet (Stravinsky)
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 instrument, woodwind and brass instruments: Western concert flute, flute, c ...
, 1923 composition by Igor Stravinsky
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Violin octet
The violin octet is a family of stringed instruments developed in the 20th century primarily under the direction of the American luthier Carleen Hutchins. Each instrument is based directly on the traditional violin and shares its acoustical prop ...
, a family of stringed instruments
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''Octet'' (musical), a musical by Dave Malloy
Ballet
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''Octet'' (Christensen), 1958 ballet by Willam Christensen
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''Octet'' (Martins), 2003 ballet by Peter Martins
Science and technology
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Octet (computing)
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 varie ...
, a grouping of eight bits
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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable un ...
, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits
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byte stream
A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits.
A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an Octet (computing), 8-bit quantity, and so the term octet stream is sometimes used interchangeab ...
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Octet rule
The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas. The ru ...
, chemical theory stating that atoms tend to combine so they each have eight valence electrons
* Octet truss, type of
space frame
In architecture and structural engineering, a space frame or space structure (Three-dimensional space, 3D truss) is a rigid, lightweight, truss-like structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometry, geometric pattern. Space frames can ...
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8 (disambiguation)
8 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
8 or eight may also refer to:
Years
* AD 8, the eighth year of the AD era
* 8 BC, the eighth year before the AD era
Art
* The Eight (Ashcan School), a group of twentieth century painters associated with the ...
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Eightfold Way (physics), theory organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets
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Lambda cube
In mathematical logic and type theory, the λ-cube (also written lambda cube) is a framework introduced by Henk Barendregt to investigate the different dimensions in which the calculus of constructions is a generalization of the simply typed λ-c ...
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Octal
Octal (base 8) is a numeral system with eight as the base.
In the decimal system, each place is a power of ten. For example:
: \mathbf_ = \mathbf \times 10^1 + \mathbf \times 10^0
In the octal system, each place is a power of eight. For ex ...
, base-8 number system
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Octant (solid geometry)
An octant in solid geometry is one of the eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system defined by the signs of the coordinates. It is analogous to the two-dimensional ''quadrant'' and the one-dimensional ''ray''.
The ge ...
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Octave (poetry) Octave has been derived from the Latin word ''octāva'', which means “eighth part.” It is a verse form that contains eight lines, which usually appear in an iambic pentameter. In simple words, it can be any stanza in a poem that has eight lines ...
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Octetra
''Octetra'' is a concrete sculpture by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) from 1968.
Description
It is an abstract painted concrete sculpture. It was designed to be a play structure.
History
It was first exhibited near Spoleto Cathedral
There are exam ...
'', a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
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Okta
In meteorology, an okta is a scale of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Sky conditions are estimated in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging fro ...
, a meteorological unit of measurement of cloud cover in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in clouds
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