If a quartette were assembled, -- and many times the musical party was enlarged to a quintette or a septette, -- an adjournment was necessary to a room less crowded, but equally sparse of conventional furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Tender passages occurred here and there all the same, and Weinlich, to whom I had already shown the beginning of my work on my return to Leipzig, praised me for the clearness and good vocal quality of the introduction I had composed to the first act; this was an Adagio for a vocal septette, in which I had tried to express the reconciliation of the hostile families, together with the emotions of the wedded couple and the sinister passion of the secret lover. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 1] Reference
A septette for the dead queen. From Wordnik.com. [Latest amIright Song Parodies] Reference
And at night the septette of Beethoven. From Wordnik.com. [Andromeda and Other Poems] Reference
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