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Naming the parts

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2011-07-09 18:24

Duet
Trio
Quartet
....
Dectet

How about 11 and 12?

Anybody know?

Thanks.

B.

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-07-09 18:28

11tet and 12tet.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2011-07-09 18:55

Thank you, Chris! I was stumped!

B.

Post Edited (2011-07-09 20:13)

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-07-09 19:00

Chris, you beat me to it. ESP eddiesclarinet.com

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2011-07-09 20:14

I beat you both to it, but figured anyone cowardly enough to take advantage of a straight line like that deserves the exposure.

So...a legit answer? Yoo hoo! Anyone out there?

B.

Post Edited (2011-07-09 20:15)

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-07-09 20:32

Well actually it'd be an Úndectet or a Duōdectet.

(Tredectet, Quattuordectet, Quindectet and so on. After a certain number one simply says "ensemble" or "group", simply because the average listener's ear cannot discern more than say 8 different parts)

--
Ben

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Re: Naming the parts

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2011-07-09 20:33

Believe it or not, I just yesterday read the term "duodectet" while researching chamber music repertoire listings. If my long-ago-Latin still serves, that would be a group of twelve.

Google tells me that the term for a group of eleven musicians is an "undectet."

Or, it may be that when you get to that many players, you are playing with less than a full deck if you call it anything other than a "chamber ensemble" . . . [tongue]