septet

[ sep-tet ]

/ sɛpˈtɛt /

any group of seven persons or things.

a company of seven singers or musicians.

a musical composition for seven voices or instruments.

Also especially British, sep·tette.

Origin of septet

From German, dating back to 1830–40; see origin at septi-, -et

Among these sketches are others for the Septet and the Variations on Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen?

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3) |Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The septet and the final chorus are fragments of such power and grandeur that you feel as though you were floating upon wings.

Wagner at Home |Judith Gautier
They are an introduction, a chorus, and a septet, not a sextet as he said.

Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas |W. J. Henderson
A grand, swinging theme in which all the voices move together like a great pendulum is the final of this septet.

Stars of the Opera |Mabel Wagnalls

On the hyper level the triplet becomes a duad and a unit; the duad becomes two units; and the septet a triplet and a quartet.

Occult Chemistry |Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater

septet

/ (sɛpˈtɛt) /

music a group of seven singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group

a group of seven people or things

C19: from German, from Latin septem seven