Nonet

In music, an nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance or a musical group that consists of nine people. Unlike some other musical ensembles such as the string quartet, there is no established or standard set of instruments in a nonet. Composers of nonets often mix stringed instruments with winds, or woodwinds with brass, choosing the instruments so that each subgroup can form complete four-part harmony. For example, Franz Schubert's Eine kleine Trauermusik (1812) is for two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, two horns, and two trombones, while Louis Spohr's Nonet in F major (1813) is for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bohuslav Martinu are among the twentieth-century composers who have written nonets. Trumpeter Miles Davis also formed a Jazz nonet that was

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later known as 'The Birth of the Cool'.

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A nonet is also a nine line poem, with the first syllable containing nine syllables, the next eight, so on until the last line has one syllable. Nonets can be written about any subject, and rhyming is optional.

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Also, in computer terminology, a nonet is a group of nine bits. Such groups are not often used, so the term is much rarer than the related "octet".

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Music: Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody....

Musical ensemble: A musical ensemble is, by definition, a group of three or more musicians who gather to perform music....

String quartet: A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group....