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Definition of orchestra
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of orchestra is as below...
Orchestra
(n.) The space in a
theater
between
the stage and the
audience;
--
originally
appropriated
by the
Greeks
to the
chorus
and its
evolutions,
afterward
by the
Romans
to
persons
of
distinction,
and by the
moderns
to a band of
instrumental
musicians..
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Leader
::
Leader
(n.) A
performer
who leads a band or choir in
music;
also, in an
orchestra,
the
principal
violinist;
the one who plays at the head of the first
violins..
Overture
::
Overture
() A
composition,
for a full
orchestra,
designed
as an
introduction
to an
oratorio,
opera,
or
ballet,
or as an
independent
piece;
--
called
in the
latter
case a
concert
overture..
Cornet
::
Cornet
(n.) A brass
instrument,
with
cupped
mouthpiece,
and
furnished
with
valves
or
pistons,
now used in
bands,
and, in place of the
trumpet,
in
orchestras.
See
Cornet-a-piston..
Concertino
::
Concertino
(n.) A piece for one or more solo
instruments
with
orchestra;
-- more
concise
than the
concerto.
Orchestral
::
Orchestral
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to an
orchestra;
suitable
for, or
performed
in or by, an
orchestra..
Concertante
::
Concertante
(n.) A
concert
for two or more
principal
instruments,
with
orchestral
accompaniment.
Also
adjectively;
as,
concertante
parts..
Orchestrion
::
Orchestrion
(n.) A large music box
imitating
a
variety
of
orchestral
instruments.
Kapelle
::
Kapelle
(n.) A
chapel;
hence,
the choir or
orchestra
of a
prince's
chapel;
now, a
musical
establishment,
usually
orchestral..
Oboe
::
Oboe (n.) One of the
higher
wind
instruments
in the
modern
orchestra,
yet of great
antiquity,
having
a
penetrating
pastoral
quality
of tone,
somewhat
like the
clarinet
in form, but more
slender,
and
sounded
by means of a
double
reed; a
hautboy..
Chapel
::
Chapel
(n.) A choir of
singers,
or an
orchestra,
attached
to the court of a
prince
or
nobleman..
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..
Score
::
Score (v. t.) To write down in
proper
order and
arrangement;
as, to score an
overture
for an
orchestra.
See
Score,
n., 9..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
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..
Conductor
::
Conductor
(n.) The
leader
or
director
of an
orchestra
or
chorus.
Opera
::
Opera (n.) A
drama,
either
tragic
or
comic,
of which music forms an
essential
part; a drama
wholly
or
mostly
sung,
consisting
of
recitative,
arials,
choruses,
duets,
trios,
etc., with
orchestral
accompaniment,
preludes,
and
interludes,
together
with
appropriate
costumes,
scenery,
and
action;
a lyric
drama..
Instrument
::
Instrument
(v. t.) To
perform
upon an
instrument;
to
prepare
for an
instrument;
as, a
sonata
instrumented
for
orchestra..
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..
Nocturne
::
Nocturne
(n.) A night
piece,
or
serenade.
The name is now used for a
certain
graceful
and
expressive
form of
instrumental
composition,
as the
nocturne
for
orchestra
in
Mendelsohn's
Midsummer-Night's
Dream
music..
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