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duet

noun

A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).

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"duet" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to two people, usually singers or musicians, who are performing together, or a musical composition intended for two performers. For example, "The jazz band was performing a duet for the crowd."

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I still think this is a knockout duet.

Their caregivers, Lindsey Stone and her friend Jamie, did a duet of Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

They also performed Same Love, their gay rights anthem, with the singer Mary Lambert, though when Jennifer Hudson emerged to duet the last part of the song with Ms Lambert, it felt like a sort of apologetic compensation for the night's whitewash.

Reinterpretations of this 1912 ballet have ranged from Jerome Robbin's 1953 duet to the sensual faux-simplicity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's 2009 Faun.

Related: I'm a fundraiser turned chief executive - boards must take risks on people like me Telethon night highlights included a Game of Thrones mock musical by Coldplay that has attracted over 7m hits on YouTube, The Voice winner Sawyer Fredericks' rendition of John Lennon's Imagine and an acoustic duet by Ed Sheeran and Kermit the Frog of the Muppet Movie song, Rainbow Connection.

Sting, Rihanna and Bruno Mars will sing together at this Sunday's 55th Grammy awards in Los Angeles, with the show also including a duet by Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John.

Later today he'll record a duet for BBC 6Music with fellow English nu-folk sensation Laura Marling.

The grizzled Scots actor Brian Cox, then living in New York, and the more elfin Alan Cumming, another US exile, were sent on stage, as was the folk singer Dougie MacLean, to perform his nationalist anthem Caledonia in a duet with a young Glaswegian indie singer Lou Hickey.

On the face of it, a duet between Van Morrison and Cliff Richard could only end in tears, a brawl with one obvious winner.

Tonight and tomorrow Shoreditch Town Hall hosts Chloe Dechery's A Duet Without You, a solo about failing to be a pair.

Its precise genesis is lost in the mists of time, but as far as I can work out it dates back to when Jordan was going out with a singer with whom Victoria had recorded a duet.

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