Definition of duet in English:

duet

nounPlural duets djuːˈɛtd(j)uˈɛt

1A performance by two singers, instrumentalists, or dancers.
二重唱；二重奏；双人舞
performing duets with famous foreign artists
Example sentencesExamples
- The organisers of the Brit Awards are hoping that U2 frontman Bono and Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof might perform a duet as a finale.
- In the duet, a male dancer patiently supports and catches a female dancer as she begins to fall.
- Her singing voice was outstanding, whether in the crowd-pleasing protest performance or in a duet with Arnold's Joanne.
- Over 60 students performed a variety of instrumental solos and duets with music that included jazz, classical film themes and Irish.
- ‘Mariama’, is a passionate, intense duet with male griot singer Ousame Sacko, and one of the album's highlights.
- The vivid and lively singing negates any risk of heaviness; you might almost convince me that they're performing the duet in its original language.
- And next up is Tom Jones's Reload, an interesting compilation featuring duets with other singers.
- Thanks to a duet with Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, called Fotografia, it also helped Juanes to attract attention beyond South America.
- At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain.
- The country singer even sang a duet with Mark on the couch in his sitting room.
- The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light.
- Providing contrast, the dancers' duets were dignified.
- On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court.
- In fact, so delighted were they that clapping could hardly be kept down several times in mid-performance, especially following the famous duet between Papageno and Papagena.
- Dan Wild and Delia Brett performed a hauntingly erotic duet, both dancers breathing audibly, heeding no notice of their sweat-drenched bodies, clinging to each other ferociously.
- Both are first-class singers, so their duets and solos were dramatically as well as musically effective.
- The album includes rare performances, including a duet with Brian Kennedy on the classic ‘In A Lifetime’.
- Taking movements created from a 3D animation program, Moisan created a duet for himself and dancer Catherine Tardiff.
- Hayes' first public performance was a duet with his sister at church when he was 3.
- ‘Call to Love’ offers an awkward metaphor and one of a few duets with Australian singer Lara Meyerratken.
1. 1.1 A musical composition for two performers.
  二重奏曲；二重唱曲
  a simple duet for two cellos
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some of the most emotionally engaging or memorable songs are duets.
  They approach the piece like a musical score, mingling solo parts with duets, trios and quartets.
  The song is a duet between a bloke who pines for a woman who passes him on an escalator and a hypothetical version of the girl in question.
  Opera, as most of them knew it, with its arias, love duets, and noble emotions, did not interest the composer.
  In terms of the former, duets have long been used by composers and music students alike to study instrumental works - particularly before the advent of recordings.
  Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet.
  This two-piano, four-hands duet opens with a simple melody in the Piano I part over a ‘boom-chuck’ accompaniment played by Piano II.
  Vivaldi's Magnificat, a short work, is not performed nearly as often as the longer, more popular Gloria, but it is an attractive work with its mixtures of trios, duets and quite short choruses.
  As an excursion through piano duets from Schubert onwards the mix is wide, the music varied and entertaining.
  He also composed masses, motets, cantatas, duets, and songs.
  Primrose is the simpler of the two works, a series of duets on Moravian folk texts for treble choir, violin, and piano.
  The first half will include a soprano duet by Handel and a composition by Philip Martin for viola, cello and piano.
  The lyrical charm of the duet between violin and cello in the third movement has a typical arpeggio background from the piano.
  The libretto gives plenty of scope for choruses, trios, duets and solos.
  The duet was composed by Viennese maestro Franz Schubert.
  Or why is it easier for avant-garde composer Luciano Berio to make money reorchestrating a duet from Puccini's Turandot than from his own creations?
  Martin revisits his love for American folk materials with this commissioned piano duet based on the celebrated Shaker tune, Simple Girls.
  From artistic director Nacho Duato comes Without Words, set to the music of a Franz Schubert duet for cello and piano.
  Level Four contains six piano duets from the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries by composers Diabelli, Arensky, Gurlitt, Reinecke and others.
  Some of it is ingenious, most notably Britten's ability to blend several of the original melodies to form duets or ensembles, but the end result remains both conventionally operatic and alarmingly sanitised.

verbduets, duetting, duetted djuːˈɛtd(j)uˈɛt

[no object]

Perform a duet.
they duetted at the tribute concert
he duetted with Johnny on a ballad
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past, Costello has duetted on stage with Bob Dylan and Tony Bennett, written songs with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, and recorded a whole album of country standards.
- It isn't all doom and gloom though: he finds derivative success and ends up duetting with Jennifer Lopez on the title track.
- By 1993 he was back in Britain, where he became romantically involved with the singer Polly Harvey, who duetted on his 1995 album Murder Ballads.
- He duetted with the coiffed and toothsome Will Young on ‘Papa's Got a Brand New Bag’.
- Luciano Pavarotti and Tom Jones are to duet on a rendition of the 1968 hit Delilah during a charity concert in Modena on Tuesday night.
- Before breaking into the title track from Essence, Williams invited Louris, for whom Williams has an obvious fondness, to duet with her.
- And more than that it was an opportunity, possibly unique in Motson's career so far, to duet with Mark Knopfler in front of a live national television audience.
- Their profile has risen so quickly since then that they are currently fighting off offers from major labels; recently, they duetted live with David Byrne on a Talking Heads song.
- They sound like David Gray and Seal duetting on a Phil Collins number.
- That Presley should consent to appear on TV dressed in a tuxedo, swapping songs, and duetting with Sinatra would have been inconceivable a few years earlier.
- Over the last ten years or so, Hall's been busy writing for strings, duetting with Bob Brookmeyer, Pat Metheny and a whole slew of great bass players, ever keen to experiment and push himself a little more.
- When she duets at various points throughout the album with the doom-voiced Simon Topping, the dourness is almost overpowering, and yet they seem to complement each other perfectly.
- The pivotal moment was when Johnny Cash cut Oldham's ‘I See a Darkness’ for his Solitary Man album, inviting Oldham to duet with him.
- So I choose the featured DJ for that gig, and then I pick a few musicians and we duet with the DJ, and then we all play together at the end.
- When he was eight he duetted with country legend George Jones, but he was more into punk and heavy metal back then.
- Finally, we see Mike and pal Bruce Alder deliriously duetting on a pair of his classic songs.
- When she was 14, Moon and her father duetted on the hit single Valley Girls.
- Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and Joni Mitchell aren't on these tapes, but four tracks feature Dylan duetting with Joan Baez, his mentor from his early - 1960s folk period.
- I half expected him to duet with Elmo or Big Bird over breakfast.
- Her guitarist had only a week to learn the chords, but they duetted wonderfully.

Derivatives

duettist

noun djuːˈɛtɪstd(j)uˈɛdəst

This work is a superb addition for duettists looking for music with a multicultural flavor.
Example sentencesExamples
- Their work as duettists has established them as exponents of contemporary music.
- He appeared at Carnegie Hall as duettist and soloist and composed the Mars Ballet for his wife, the choreographer Albertina Rasch.
- Vanessa and Caroline Sadlier and two classically trained sopranos from Viewmount, Waterford. and are well known soloists and duettists in concerts, recitals and functions.
- My father, who awakened my interest in music as an eleven-year-old, was a keen duettist with a good library of such material and the ability to make arduous practice fun.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Italian duetto, diminutive of duo 'duet', from Latin duo 'two'.

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of duet in US English:

duet

nound(y)o͞oˈetd(j)uˈɛt

1A performance by two people, especially singers, instrumentalists, or dancers.
二重唱；二重奏；双人舞
performing duets with famous foreign artists
Example sentencesExamples
- The vivid and lively singing negates any risk of heaviness; you might almost convince me that they're performing the duet in its original language.
- Taking movements created from a 3D animation program, Moisan created a duet for himself and dancer Catherine Tardiff.
- The album includes rare performances, including a duet with Brian Kennedy on the classic ‘In A Lifetime’.
- And next up is Tom Jones's Reload, an interesting compilation featuring duets with other singers.
- Thanks to a duet with Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, called Fotografia, it also helped Juanes to attract attention beyond South America.
- The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light.
- Dan Wild and Delia Brett performed a hauntingly erotic duet, both dancers breathing audibly, heeding no notice of their sweat-drenched bodies, clinging to each other ferociously.
- Both are first-class singers, so their duets and solos were dramatically as well as musically effective.
- On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court.
- Providing contrast, the dancers' duets were dignified.
- The organisers of the Brit Awards are hoping that U2 frontman Bono and Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof might perform a duet as a finale.
- Hayes' first public performance was a duet with his sister at church when he was 3.
- ‘Call to Love’ offers an awkward metaphor and one of a few duets with Australian singer Lara Meyerratken.
- At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain.
- In fact, so delighted were they that clapping could hardly be kept down several times in mid-performance, especially following the famous duet between Papageno and Papagena.
- In the duet, a male dancer patiently supports and catches a female dancer as she begins to fall.
- Her singing voice was outstanding, whether in the crowd-pleasing protest performance or in a duet with Arnold's Joanne.
- The country singer even sang a duet with Mark on the couch in his sitting room.
- Over 60 students performed a variety of instrumental solos and duets with music that included jazz, classical film themes and Irish.
- ‘Mariama’, is a passionate, intense duet with male griot singer Ousame Sacko, and one of the album's highlights.
1. 1.1 A musical composition for two performers.
  二重奏曲；二重唱曲
  a simple duet for two cellos
  Example sentencesExamples
  Martin revisits his love for American folk materials with this commissioned piano duet based on the celebrated Shaker tune, Simple Girls.
  They approach the piece like a musical score, mingling solo parts with duets, trios and quartets.
  The lyrical charm of the duet between violin and cello in the third movement has a typical arpeggio background from the piano.
  From artistic director Nacho Duato comes Without Words, set to the music of a Franz Schubert duet for cello and piano.
  He also composed masses, motets, cantatas, duets, and songs.
  The duet was composed by Viennese maestro Franz Schubert.
  Vivaldi's Magnificat, a short work, is not performed nearly as often as the longer, more popular Gloria, but it is an attractive work with its mixtures of trios, duets and quite short choruses.
  Some of the most emotionally engaging or memorable songs are duets.
  This two-piano, four-hands duet opens with a simple melody in the Piano I part over a ‘boom-chuck’ accompaniment played by Piano II.
  Opera, as most of them knew it, with its arias, love duets, and noble emotions, did not interest the composer.
  The libretto gives plenty of scope for choruses, trios, duets and solos.
  Some of it is ingenious, most notably Britten's ability to blend several of the original melodies to form duets or ensembles, but the end result remains both conventionally operatic and alarmingly sanitised.
  Or why is it easier for avant-garde composer Luciano Berio to make money reorchestrating a duet from Puccini's Turandot than from his own creations?
  In terms of the former, duets have long been used by composers and music students alike to study instrumental works - particularly before the advent of recordings.
  The song is a duet between a bloke who pines for a woman who passes him on an escalator and a hypothetical version of the girl in question.
  As an excursion through piano duets from Schubert onwards the mix is wide, the music varied and entertaining.
  The first half will include a soprano duet by Handel and a composition by Philip Martin for viola, cello and piano.
  Primrose is the simpler of the two works, a series of duets on Moravian folk texts for treble choir, violin, and piano.
  Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet.
  Level Four contains six piano duets from the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries by composers Diabelli, Arensky, Gurlitt, Reinecke and others.

verbd(y)o͞oˈetd(j)uˈɛt

[no object]

Perform a duet.
they duetted at the tribute concert
he duetted with Johnny on a ballad
Example sentencesExamples
- Their profile has risen so quickly since then that they are currently fighting off offers from major labels; recently, they duetted live with David Byrne on a Talking Heads song.
- They sound like David Gray and Seal duetting on a Phil Collins number.
- When she was 14, Moon and her father duetted on the hit single Valley Girls.
- When he was eight he duetted with country legend George Jones, but he was more into punk and heavy metal back then.
- Over the last ten years or so, Hall's been busy writing for strings, duetting with Bob Brookmeyer, Pat Metheny and a whole slew of great bass players, ever keen to experiment and push himself a little more.
- Before breaking into the title track from Essence, Williams invited Louris, for whom Williams has an obvious fondness, to duet with her.
- Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and Joni Mitchell aren't on these tapes, but four tracks feature Dylan duetting with Joan Baez, his mentor from his early - 1960s folk period.
- Finally, we see Mike and pal Bruce Alder deliriously duetting on a pair of his classic songs.
- The pivotal moment was when Johnny Cash cut Oldham's ‘I See a Darkness’ for his Solitary Man album, inviting Oldham to duet with him.
- And more than that it was an opportunity, possibly unique in Motson's career so far, to duet with Mark Knopfler in front of a live national television audience.
- Her guitarist had only a week to learn the chords, but they duetted wonderfully.
- He duetted with the coiffed and toothsome Will Young on ‘Papa's Got a Brand New Bag’.
- When she duets at various points throughout the album with the doom-voiced Simon Topping, the dourness is almost overpowering, and yet they seem to complement each other perfectly.
- By 1993 he was back in Britain, where he became romantically involved with the singer Polly Harvey, who duetted on his 1995 album Murder Ballads.
- I half expected him to duet with Elmo or Big Bird over breakfast.
- Luciano Pavarotti and Tom Jones are to duet on a rendition of the 1968 hit Delilah during a charity concert in Modena on Tuesday night.
- So I choose the featured DJ for that gig, and then I pick a few musicians and we duet with the DJ, and then we all play together at the end.
- In the past, Costello has duetted on stage with Bob Dylan and Tony Bennett, written songs with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, and recorded a whole album of country standards.
- It isn't all doom and gloom though: he finds derivative success and ends up duetting with Jennifer Lopez on the title track.
- That Presley should consent to appear on TV dressed in a tuxedo, swapping songs, and duetting with Sinatra would have been inconceivable a few years earlier.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Italian duetto, diminutive of duo ‘duet’, from Latin duo ‘two’.

词汇	duet
释义	Definition of duet in English: duet nounPlural duets djuːˈɛtd(j)uˈɛt 1A performance by two singers, instrumentalists, or dancers. 二重唱；二重奏；双人舞 performing duets with famous foreign artists Example sentencesExamples The organisers of the Brit Awards are hoping that U2 frontman Bono and Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof might perform a duet as a finale. In the duet, a male dancer patiently supports and catches a female dancer as she begins to fall. Her singing voice was outstanding, whether in the crowd-pleasing protest performance or in a duet with Arnold's Joanne. Over 60 students performed a variety of instrumental solos and duets with music that included jazz, classical film themes and Irish. ‘Mariama’, is a passionate, intense duet with male griot singer Ousame Sacko, and one of the album's highlights. The vivid and lively singing negates any risk of heaviness; you might almost convince me that they're performing the duet in its original language. And next up is Tom Jones's Reload, an interesting compilation featuring duets with other singers. Thanks to a duet with Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, called Fotografia, it also helped Juanes to attract attention beyond South America. At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain. The country singer even sang a duet with Mark on the couch in his sitting room. The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light. Providing contrast, the dancers' duets were dignified. On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court. In fact, so delighted were they that clapping could hardly be kept down several times in mid-performance, especially following the famous duet between Papageno and Papagena. Dan Wild and Delia Brett performed a hauntingly erotic duet, both dancers breathing audibly, heeding no notice of their sweat-drenched bodies, clinging to each other ferociously. Both are first-class singers, so their duets and solos were dramatically as well as musically effective. The album includes rare performances, including a duet with Brian Kennedy on the classic ‘In A Lifetime’. Taking movements created from a 3D animation program, Moisan created a duet for himself and dancer Catherine Tardiff. Hayes' first public performance was a duet with his sister at church when he was 3. ‘Call to Love’ offers an awkward metaphor and one of a few duets with Australian singer Lara Meyerratken. 1.1 A musical composition for two performers. 二重奏曲；二重唱曲 a simple duet for two cellos Example sentencesExamples Some of the most emotionally engaging or memorable songs are duets. They approach the piece like a musical score, mingling solo parts with duets, trios and quartets. The song is a duet between a bloke who pines for a woman who passes him on an escalator and a hypothetical version of the girl in question. Opera, as most of them knew it, with its arias, love duets, and noble emotions, did not interest the composer. In terms of the former, duets have long been used by composers and music students alike to study instrumental works - particularly before the advent of recordings. Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet. This two-piano, four-hands duet opens with a simple melody in the Piano I part over a ‘boom-chuck’ accompaniment played by Piano II. Vivaldi's Magnificat, a short work, is not performed nearly as often as the longer, more popular Gloria, but it is an attractive work with its mixtures of trios, duets and quite short choruses. As an excursion through piano duets from Schubert onwards the mix is wide, the music varied and entertaining. He also composed masses, motets, cantatas, duets, and songs. Primrose is the simpler of the two works, a series of duets on Moravian folk texts for treble choir, violin, and piano. The first half will include a soprano duet by Handel and a composition by Philip Martin for viola, cello and piano. The lyrical charm of the duet between violin and cello in the third movement has a typical arpeggio background from the piano. The libretto gives plenty of scope for choruses, trios, duets and solos. The duet was composed by Viennese maestro Franz Schubert. Or why is it easier for avant-garde composer Luciano Berio to make money reorchestrating a duet from Puccini's Turandot than from his own creations? Martin revisits his love for American folk materials with this commissioned piano duet based on the celebrated Shaker tune, Simple Girls. From artistic director Nacho Duato comes Without Words, set to the music of a Franz Schubert duet for cello and piano. Level Four contains six piano duets from the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries by composers Diabelli, Arensky, Gurlitt, Reinecke and others. Some of it is ingenious, most notably Britten's ability to blend several of the original melodies to form duets or ensembles, but the end result remains both conventionally operatic and alarmingly sanitised. verbduets, duetting, duetted djuːˈɛtd(j)uˈɛt [no object] Perform a duet. they duetted at the tribute concert he duetted with Johnny on a ballad Example sentencesExamples In the past, Costello has duetted on stage with Bob Dylan and Tony Bennett, written songs with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, and recorded a whole album of country standards. It isn't all doom and gloom though: he finds derivative success and ends up duetting with Jennifer Lopez on the title track. By 1993 he was back in Britain, where he became romantically involved with the singer Polly Harvey, who duetted on his 1995 album Murder Ballads. He duetted with the coiffed and toothsome Will Young on ‘Papa's Got a Brand New Bag’. Luciano Pavarotti and Tom Jones are to duet on a rendition of the 1968 hit Delilah during a charity concert in Modena on Tuesday night. Before breaking into the title track from Essence, Williams invited Louris, for whom Williams has an obvious fondness, to duet with her. And more than that it was an opportunity, possibly unique in Motson's career so far, to duet with Mark Knopfler in front of a live national television audience. Their profile has risen so quickly since then that they are currently fighting off offers from major labels; recently, they duetted live with David Byrne on a Talking Heads song. They sound like David Gray and Seal duetting on a Phil Collins number. That Presley should consent to appear on TV dressed in a tuxedo, swapping songs, and duetting with Sinatra would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Over the last ten years or so, Hall's been busy writing for strings, duetting with Bob Brookmeyer, Pat Metheny and a whole slew of great bass players, ever keen to experiment and push himself a little more. When she duets at various points throughout the album with the doom-voiced Simon Topping, the dourness is almost overpowering, and yet they seem to complement each other perfectly. The pivotal moment was when Johnny Cash cut Oldham's ‘I See a Darkness’ for his Solitary Man album, inviting Oldham to duet with him. So I choose the featured DJ for that gig, and then I pick a few musicians and we duet with the DJ, and then we all play together at the end. When he was eight he duetted with country legend George Jones, but he was more into punk and heavy metal back then. Finally, we see Mike and pal Bruce Alder deliriously duetting on a pair of his classic songs. When she was 14, Moon and her father duetted on the hit single Valley Girls. Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and Joni Mitchell aren't on these tapes, but four tracks feature Dylan duetting with Joan Baez, his mentor from his early - 1960s folk period. I half expected him to duet with Elmo or Big Bird over breakfast. Her guitarist had only a week to learn the chords, but they duetted wonderfully. Derivatives duettist noun djuːˈɛtɪstd(j)uˈɛdəst This work is a superb addition for duettists looking for music with a multicultural flavor. Example sentencesExamples Their work as duettists has established them as exponents of contemporary music. He appeared at Carnegie Hall as duettist and soloist and composed the Mars Ballet for his wife, the choreographer Albertina Rasch. Vanessa and Caroline Sadlier and two classically trained sopranos from Viewmount, Waterford. and are well known soloists and duettists in concerts, recitals and functions. My father, who awakened my interest in music as an eleven-year-old, was a keen duettist with a good library of such material and the ability to make arduous practice fun. Origin Mid 18th century: from Italian duetto, diminutive of duo 'duet', from Latin duo 'two'. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette Definition of duet in US English: duet nound(y)o͞oˈetd(j)uˈɛt 1A performance by two people, especially singers, instrumentalists, or dancers. 二重唱；二重奏；双人舞 performing duets with famous foreign artists Example sentencesExamples The vivid and lively singing negates any risk of heaviness; you might almost convince me that they're performing the duet in its original language. Taking movements created from a 3D animation program, Moisan created a duet for himself and dancer Catherine Tardiff. The album includes rare performances, including a duet with Brian Kennedy on the classic ‘In A Lifetime’. And next up is Tom Jones's Reload, an interesting compilation featuring duets with other singers. Thanks to a duet with Portuguese-Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, called Fotografia, it also helped Juanes to attract attention beyond South America. The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light. Dan Wild and Delia Brett performed a hauntingly erotic duet, both dancers breathing audibly, heeding no notice of their sweat-drenched bodies, clinging to each other ferociously. Both are first-class singers, so their duets and solos were dramatically as well as musically effective. On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court. Providing contrast, the dancers' duets were dignified. The organisers of the Brit Awards are hoping that U2 frontman Bono and Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof might perform a duet as a finale. Hayes' first public performance was a duet with his sister at church when he was 3. ‘Call to Love’ offers an awkward metaphor and one of a few duets with Australian singer Lara Meyerratken. At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain. In fact, so delighted were they that clapping could hardly be kept down several times in mid-performance, especially following the famous duet between Papageno and Papagena. In the duet, a male dancer patiently supports and catches a female dancer as she begins to fall. Her singing voice was outstanding, whether in the crowd-pleasing protest performance or in a duet with Arnold's Joanne. The country singer even sang a duet with Mark on the couch in his sitting room. Over 60 students performed a variety of instrumental solos and duets with music that included jazz, classical film themes and Irish. ‘Mariama’, is a passionate, intense duet with male griot singer Ousame Sacko, and one of the album's highlights. 1.1 A musical composition for two performers. 二重奏曲；二重唱曲 a simple duet for two cellos Example sentencesExamples Martin revisits his love for American folk materials with this commissioned piano duet based on the celebrated Shaker tune, Simple Girls. They approach the piece like a musical score, mingling solo parts with duets, trios and quartets. The lyrical charm of the duet between violin and cello in the third movement has a typical arpeggio background from the piano. From artistic director Nacho Duato comes Without Words, set to the music of a Franz Schubert duet for cello and piano. He also composed masses, motets, cantatas, duets, and songs. The duet was composed by Viennese maestro Franz Schubert. Vivaldi's Magnificat, a short work, is not performed nearly as often as the longer, more popular Gloria, but it is an attractive work with its mixtures of trios, duets and quite short choruses. Some of the most emotionally engaging or memorable songs are duets. This two-piano, four-hands duet opens with a simple melody in the Piano I part over a ‘boom-chuck’ accompaniment played by Piano II. Opera, as most of them knew it, with its arias, love duets, and noble emotions, did not interest the composer. The libretto gives plenty of scope for choruses, trios, duets and solos. Some of it is ingenious, most notably Britten's ability to blend several of the original melodies to form duets or ensembles, but the end result remains both conventionally operatic and alarmingly sanitised. Or why is it easier for avant-garde composer Luciano Berio to make money reorchestrating a duet from Puccini's Turandot than from his own creations? In terms of the former, duets have long been used by composers and music students alike to study instrumental works - particularly before the advent of recordings. The song is a duet between a bloke who pines for a woman who passes him on an escalator and a hypothetical version of the girl in question. As an excursion through piano duets from Schubert onwards the mix is wide, the music varied and entertaining. The first half will include a soprano duet by Handel and a composition by Philip Martin for viola, cello and piano. Primrose is the simpler of the two works, a series of duets on Moravian folk texts for treble choir, violin, and piano. Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet. Level Four contains six piano duets from the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries by composers Diabelli, Arensky, Gurlitt, Reinecke and others. verbd(y)o͞oˈetd(j)uˈɛt [no object] Perform a duet. they duetted at the tribute concert he duetted with Johnny on a ballad Example sentencesExamples Their profile has risen so quickly since then that they are currently fighting off offers from major labels; recently, they duetted live with David Byrne on a Talking Heads song. They sound like David Gray and Seal duetting on a Phil Collins number. When she was 14, Moon and her father duetted on the hit single Valley Girls. When he was eight he duetted with country legend George Jones, but he was more into punk and heavy metal back then. Over the last ten years or so, Hall's been busy writing for strings, duetting with Bob Brookmeyer, Pat Metheny and a whole slew of great bass players, ever keen to experiment and push himself a little more. Before breaking into the title track from Essence, Williams invited Louris, for whom Williams has an obvious fondness, to duet with her. Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and Joni Mitchell aren't on these tapes, but four tracks feature Dylan duetting with Joan Baez, his mentor from his early - 1960s folk period. Finally, we see Mike and pal Bruce Alder deliriously duetting on a pair of his classic songs. The pivotal moment was when Johnny Cash cut Oldham's ‘I See a Darkness’ for his Solitary Man album, inviting Oldham to duet with him. And more than that it was an opportunity, possibly unique in Motson's career so far, to duet with Mark Knopfler in front of a live national television audience. Her guitarist had only a week to learn the chords, but they duetted wonderfully. He duetted with the coiffed and toothsome Will Young on ‘Papa's Got a Brand New Bag’. When she duets at various points throughout the album with the doom-voiced Simon Topping, the dourness is almost overpowering, and yet they seem to complement each other perfectly. By 1993 he was back in Britain, where he became romantically involved with the singer Polly Harvey, who duetted on his 1995 album Murder Ballads. I half expected him to duet with Elmo or Big Bird over breakfast. Luciano Pavarotti and Tom Jones are to duet on a rendition of the 1968 hit Delilah during a charity concert in Modena on Tuesday night. So I choose the featured DJ for that gig, and then I pick a few musicians and we duet with the DJ, and then we all play together at the end. In the past, Costello has duetted on stage with Bob Dylan and Tony Bennett, written songs with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, and recorded a whole album of country standards. It isn't all doom and gloom though: he finds derivative success and ends up duetting with Jennifer Lopez on the title track. That Presley should consent to appear on TV dressed in a tuxedo, swapping songs, and duetting with Sinatra would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Origin Mid 18th century: from Italian duetto, diminutive of duo ‘duet’, from Latin duo ‘two’.
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