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Definition of orchestra
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Orchestra
(n.) A band
composed,
for the
largest
part, of
players
of the
various
viol
instruments,
many of each kind,
together
with a
proper
complement
of wind
instruments
of wood and
brass;
-- as
distinguished
from a
military
or
street
band of
players
on wind
instruments,
and from an
assemblage
of solo
players
for the
rendering
of
concerted
pieces,
such as
septets,
octets,
and the
like..
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Orchestric
::
Orchestric
(a.)
Orchestral.
Capelle
::
Capelle
(n.) The
private
orchestra
or band of a
prince
or of a
church.
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) A band
composed,
for the
largest
part, of
players
of the
various
viol
instruments,
many of each kind,
together
with a
proper
complement
of wind
instruments
of wood and
brass;
-- as
distinguished
from a
military
or
street
band of
players
on wind
instruments,
and from an
assemblage
of solo
players
for the
rendering
of
concerted
pieces,
such as
septets,
octets,
and the
like..
Ripienist
::
Ripienist
(n.) A
player
in the
ripieno
portion
of an
orchestra.
See
Ripieno.
Orchestrion
::
Orchestrion
(n.) A large music box
imitating
a
variety
of
orchestral
instruments.
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The place in any
public
hall
appropriated
to a band of
instrumental
musicians.
Concertmeister
::
Concertmeister
(n.) The head
violinist
or
leader
of the
strings
in an
orchestra;
the
sub-leader
of the
orchestra;
concert
master.
Conistra
::
Conistra
(n.)
Originally,
a part of the
palestra,
or
gymnasium
among the
Greeks;
either
the place where sand was
stored
for use in
sprinkling
the
wrestlers,
or the
wrestling
ground
itself.
Hence,
a part of the
orchestra
of the Greek
theater..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The
instruments
employed
by a full band,
collectively;
as, an
orchestra
of forty
stringed
instruments,
with
proper
complement
of wind
instruments..
Orchester
::
Orchester
(n.) See
Orchestra.
Saxhorn
::
Saxhorn
(n.) A name given to a
numerous
family
of brass wind
instruments
with
valves,
invented
by
Antoine
Joseph
Adolphe
Sax
(known
as
Adolphe
Sax), of
Belgium
and
Paris,
and much used in
military
bands and in
orchestras..
Oratorio
::
Oratorio
(n.) A more or less
dramatic
text or poem,
founded
on some
Scripture
nerrative,
or great
divine
event,
elaborately
set to
music,
in
recitative,
arias,
grand
choruses,
etc., to be sung with an
orchestral
accompaniment,
but
without
action,
scenery,
or
costume,
although
the
oratorio
grew out of the
Mysteries
and the
Miracle
and
Passion
plays,
which were
acted..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
Orchestration
::
Orchestration
(n.) The
arrangement
of music for an
orchestra;
orchestral
treatment
of a
composition;
--
called
also
instrumentation.
Symphony
::
Symphony
(n.) An
elaborate
instrumental
composition
for a full
orchestra,
consisting
usually,
like the
sonata,
of three or four
contrasted
yet
inwardly
related
movements,
as the
allegro,
the
adagio,
the
minuet
and trio, or
scherzo,
and the
finale
in quick time. The term has
recently
been
applied
to large
orchestral
works in freer form, with
arguments
or
programmes
to
explain
their
meaning,
such as the
symphonic
poems of
Liszt.
The term was
formerly
applied
to any
composition
for an
orchestra,
as
Strophic
::
Strophe
(n.) In Greek
choruses
and
dances,
the
movement
of the
chorus
while
turning
from the right to the left of the
orchestra;
hence,
the
strain,
or part of the
choral
ode, sung
during
this
movement.
Also
sometimes
used of a
stanza
of
modern
verse.
See the Note under
Antistrophe..
Parquet
::
Parquet
(n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or
theater
nearest
the
orchestra;
but
commonly
applied
to the whole lower floor of a
theater,
from the
orchestra
to the dress
circle;
the pit..
Ophicleide
::
Ophicleide
(n.) A large brass wind
instrument,
formerly
used in the
orchestra
and in
military
bands,
having
a loud tone, deep
pitch,
and a
compass
of three
octaves;
-- now
generally
supplanted
by bass and
contrabass
tubas..
Orchestral
::
Orchestral
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to an
orchestra;
suitable
for, or
performed
in or by, an
orchestra..
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