A piece of music performed by six singers.

Piece for six voices, notable in Mozart’s operas and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Also a group of six instrumentalists or work written for them to perform; for example, the Brahms string sextets. singspiel (ZING-shpeel) Early German musical drama very similar to English ballad opera or French opéra comique. Employing spoken dialogue along with musical numbers, Beethoven’s Fidelio is technically a singspiel but the term generally implies a comic or light subject. Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio (1782) follows the Viennese tradition of singspiel, while his Magic Flute (1791) is a musically more complex work in which the traditions of singspiel, opera buffa, and opera seria are all combined.

A piece for six singers.

a musical composition written for six performers

six performers or singers who perform together

a set of six similar things considered as a unit

six people considered as a unit

A six piece ensemble

a work for six musicians

A Sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. It is commonly associated with musical groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit.

Sextet is a minimalist composition by Steve Reich. It is written for an ensemble of four percussionists and two keyboardists, hence the title. The percussionists play (at various times) three marimbas, two vibraphones, two bass drums, crotales, sticks, and tam-tam.