This week's featured morphological atrocity

[nq:1]Fox has (=UK "have") released a nine-DVD set called the "Alien Quadrilogy".. When Paul Dooley decided that the word for a nine-member singing group should be "neuftet", we're pretty sure he was kidding..[/nq]
One web page discribes this as a "nonodisc quadrilogy".

MWCD10 cites "tetralogy" back to 1656 (although in the restricted sense of a series of four "dramatic pieces"

[nq:1]Fox has (=UK "have") released a nine-DVD set called the "Alien Quadrilogy".. When Paul Dooley decided that the word for a nine-member singing group should be "neuftet", we're pretty sure he was kidding..[/nq]
"Neuftet" makes sense, but he was kidding. The correct terms for instrumental or vocal musicians are solo, duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, and octet (or double

[nq:2]Fox has (=UK "have") released a nine-DVD set called the ... group should be "neuftet", we're pretty sure he was kidding..[/nq]
[nq:1]"Neuftet" makes sense, but he was kidding. The correct terms for instrumental or vocal musicians are solo, duet, trio, quartet, ... double quartet). Anything bigger than that is a band, orchestra, or choir. A nine-piece orchestra is called a chamber

[nq:2]The correct terms for instrumental or vocal musicians are solo, ... or choir. A nine-piece orchestra is called a chamber orchestra.[/nq]
[nq:1]There are some nonets out there so named, e.g., The Czech Nonet: . There are also compositions named "nonet." You'll find five listed at . Googling will uncover several more.[/nq]
I'll call and raise you one: George Enescu composed a decet

[nq:1]I'll call and raise you one: George Enescu composed a decet (for winds, in D major, op.14).[/nq]
I raise myself: according to a googled website, Pat Livingstone has composed a duodecet (for winds and strings).

[nq:2]"Neuftet" makes sense, but he was kidding. The correct terms ... or choir. A nine-piece orchestra is called a chamber orchestra.[/nq]
[nq:1]There are some nonets out there so named, e.g., The Czech Nonet: . There are also compositions named "nonet." You'll find five listed at . Googling will uncover several more. To the eternal regret of musicians everywhere, Luigi Nono (1924-90) never w

[nq:2]There are some nonets out there so named, e.g., The ... five listed at . Googling will uncover several more.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'll call and raise you one: George Enescu composed a decet (for winds, in D major, op.14). Other composers have composed decets.[/nq]
Very decetful of them.
I'll raise you two Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951; best known as a pianist, particularly for his 78-r

mUs1Ka filted:
[nq:2]To the eternal regret of musicians everywhere, Luigi Nono (1924-90) never wrote a nonet.[/nq]
[nq:1]Did he write a musical, 'Nono Nonet'?[/nq]
No, but Cesar Franck did write a sonata..
(From a music library asked to provide song sheets for a tune called "Could I But Express In Song": "We regret to inform you that we are unable to locate the piece you requested:

[nq:2]There are some nonets out there so named, e.g., The ... five listed at . Googling will uncover several more.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'll call and raise you one: George Enescu composed a decet (for winds,in D major, op.14). Other composers have composed decets.[/nq]
And dectets
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'Te dectet hymnus..'

[nq:1]I'll raise you two Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951; best known as a pianist, particularly for his 78-rpm sets of complete ... I had an LP version, but I can't turn it up. As a pianist Schnabel specialized in the classic era.[/nq]
Oy!