# Sextets

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Compositions for six percussionists are entered under [Percussion ensembles.]

Compositions for six bowed stringed instruments are entered under [String sextets;] for six wind instruments under [Wind sextets;] for six brass instruments under [Brass sextets;] for six woodwind instruments under [Woodwind sextets;] and for six plucked stringed instruments under [Plucked instrument sextets.]

Compositions for six solo voices are entered under [Sacred vocal sextets] or [Vocal sextets.]

Here are entered collections of compositions for six instruments belonging to various families and in various combinations. Collections of compositions not in a specific form or of a specific type for a single combination of six instruments, and individual works, are entered under this heading followed by a parenthetical qualifier with the names of the instruments or the term "unspecified instrument(s)."

Directory metadata is not a factual answer or evidence of a global knowledge gap.

Source: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120695

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