septet

also n.

1. Music.
   1. A composition for seven voices or seven instruments.
   2. A group of seven singers or seven instrumentalists.
2. A group of seven.

[German Septett, from Latin septem, seven.]

A composition for seven instruments or voices (or a group that performs such a composition). The best known is Beethoven's op.20; there are others by Hummel, Spohr, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Stravinsky.

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septet, a stanza of seven lines, such as the English rhyme royal stanza.

Modern dance work in one act with choreography by Cunningham, music by Satie, and design by R. Charlip. Premiered by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain College, N. Carolina, on 22 Aug. 1953, with Cunningham, C. Brown, Farber, Melsher, Charlip, P. Taylor, and Dencks. This alternately grave and witty setting of Satie's Trois morceaux en forme de poire is one of Cunningham's rare surviving settings of a pre-existent score. It is now danced by six people (seven at premiere), but is in seven movements. It has been revived for Rambert Dance Company (Glasgow, 1987), Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle, 1989), White Oak Dance Project (Fort Lauderdale, 1996), and others.

A stanza of seven lines.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - septet

Nederlands (Dutch)
septet

Français (French)
n. - septuor

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Mus.) Septett

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επτάδα, (μουσ.) σεπτέτο

Italiano (Italian)
settimino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - septeto (m) (Mús.)

Русский (Russian)
септет

Español (Spanish)
n. - septeto

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - septett

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
七重奏, 七人一组

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 七重奏, 七人一組

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 7중주곡, 7부 합주곡, 일곱개 한 조

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 七重奏, 七人組

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لحن معد لسبع آلات أو سبع مغنين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שביעייה (להקה), שבעה כלים, יצירה לשבעה כלים‬

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