Quintet in a sentence as a noun

In fact, it is a quintet, not a quartet, that the author was referring to. And it was the one in C major, as made clear in the beginning.

Interesting that I repeatedly saw quartet and not quintet- probably because the assumption is so strong.

But if you're playing with a piano in, say, a piano quintet, you generally play equal temperament with the piano.

Attempting to get a job at 1 of the Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft quintet of big companies that pay well, though, is quite doable, in spite of the noisiness of the process.

Quintet definitions

noun

a musical composition for five performers

See also: quintette

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

noun

five performers or singers who perform together

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noun

a set of five similar things considered as a unit

See also: quintette quintuplet quintuple

noun

five people considered as a unit

See also: quintette fivesome