The terms duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet and dectet are used to describe groups of two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten musicians, respectively.

Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances.

Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo.

The four musicians who augmented Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos on their live appearances and TV shows for those few months were Ray Singer ( guitar ), Brian Henderson ( bass ), Sylvia A. Schuster ( cello ) and Michael Cole ( French horn, viola ).

The reformed Band were recorded live in concert at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre that year, assisted by four extra musicians ; It has been released as The Band Reunion and The Band is Back.

On 3 February 1959, a chartered plane transporting the three American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four occupants on board, including pilot Roger Peterson.

Stills suggested Tork audition for a new television series about four pop-rock musicians, when the producers asked if Stills ' had a better looking ( musician ) friend '.

He is one of only five jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time ( the other four being Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck ).

Asia returned to the studio in 1990 with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather and other musicians ( see discography below ) and released Then & Now, a best-of with four new tracks.

After the Beatles broke up, Clapton became one of the few musicians to appear on solo recordings by each of the four.

* Session musicians – four French horns on " Sgt.

Later the four main musicians of the Javelins, with the addition of Wesley Black as pianist, became known as the Monarchs.

Three of the four musicians who had created the soundtrack for the 1978 film — Innes, Halsey and Fataar — reunited in 1996 and recorded a second album, Archaeology, a send-up of The Beatles Anthology albums.

He is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time ( the other four being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck ) as of 2010.

The first ( earlier ) video included four of the five musicians on the hit single: Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, David Knights and Ray Royer ; only the drummer was different, Bobby Harrison miming to Bill Eyden's drumming on the single.

When Elvis Presley walked in unexpectedly, Johnny Cash was called into the studio by Phillips, leading to an impromptu session featuring the four musicians.

American Pop follows four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians, whose careers parallel the history of American pop.

About the same time Barking At The Ants, containing four Norman songs, plus songs from British musicians Steve Scott, Alwyn Wall, Sheila Walsh, Mark Williamson, The Barratt Band, and Bryn Haworth was released.

" Music by Moonlight " offers four free concerts per year at Dothan's Landmark Park, featuring classical, jazz, Celtic and Bluegrass musicians, among others.

The Yachats Music Festival brings 20 to 30 of the world's major classical musicians for four concerts throughout a weekend in July.

The family and descendants of Sisterdale resident Baron Ottmar von Behr have included three generations of directors of the Boerne Village Band, and four generations of musicians.

After the split, the four musicians each took on projects of their own.

On going through his papers, Messiaen's widow discovered that he had been composing a concerto for four musicians he felt particularly grateful to, namely Loriod, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the oboist Heinz Holliger and the flautist Catherine Cantin ( hence the title Concert à quatre ).

In the United States his music was becoming widely known and performed, and he began to attract a following among young musicians: he was amused when four students turned up in Chicago in 1974 wearing ' Turn on to Tippett ' T-shirts.

After an illegal u-turn by Furay, some shouting, hand-waving, and much excitement, the four musicians realized that they were united in their determination to put together a band.

Thus, when specifically permitted, the operand of a given line on the Autocoder coding sheet may be continued in the operand of from one to four additional lines which immediately follow.

Nevertheless the conference was considered a success in bringing researchers together and Oxford conferences have continued every four or five years at locations around the world.

Tolerance to anti-anxiety effects develops more slowly with little evidence of continued effectiveness beyond four to six months of continued use.

Under his watch, the Browns won the AAFC championship in all four years of its existence, including the AAFC's only perfect season in 1948, and continued to succeed after moving to the NFL in 1950.

The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.

For the next four decades, the board members continued to serve as ex-officio trustees of the College of the City of New York and the city's other municipal college, the Normal College of the City of New York.

However, continued demand led to a Nova 4 machine, this time based on four AMD 2901 bit-slice ALUs.

Thomas continued to work as a freelance journalist for several years and during this time remained at Cwmdonkin Drive where he continued to add to his notebooks, amassing 200 poems in four books between 1930 and 1934.

After this brief pause erection of the metalwork continued, and the critical operation of linking the four legs was successfully completed by March 1888.

The project continued at Autodesk for four years, but no product was released.

In the subsequent deputies ' elections, four JDA candidates were successful, but three of them subsequently left the party and continued to sit as independents.

The team continued a youth movement in 2005, but finished with a 56 – 106 record (. 346 ), a full 43 games out of first place, marking the third time in four seasons that the team reestablished the mark for worst record in franchise history The season also saw the Royals lose a franchise record 19 games in a row.

His own writing continued with four ( of a planned ten ) volumes of Natural History of the United States which were published from 1857 to 1862.

Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.

The unrest continued until the ruling prince gave up his claim to the two towns ( some 95 % of the country ), and they were ceded to France in return for four million francs.

After Clovis ' death, his kingdom was partitioned among his four sons, and over the next century this tradition of partition continued.

The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.

Thus, on the basis of the budget of 1861, tax collection continued for four years.

The original series ( four or five books a year ) lasted from 1949 to 1963, until the death of Jean Bruce, and was continued by his wife and children until 1992.

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

The trial continued until 11 April 2006, when four of the reporters were acquitted.

He continued to lecture widely, and even to travel ; especially towards the end of this time, he was often giving two, three or even four lectures daily for courses taking place concurrently.

In 1986, UC Berkeley initiated their second SETI effort, SERENDIP II, and has continued with four more SERENDIP efforts to the present day.