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Definition of orchestra
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Orchestra
(n.) The place in any
public
hall
appropriated
to a band of
instrumental
musicians.
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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..
Concertmeister
::
Concertmeister
(n.) The head
violinist
or
leader
of the
strings
in an
orchestra;
the
sub-leader
of the
orchestra;
concert
master.
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..
Orchestric
::
Orchestric
(a.)
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..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The
instruments
employed
by a full band,
collectively;
as, an
orchestra
of forty
stringed
instruments,
with
proper
complement
of wind
instruments..
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..
Pit
::
Pit (n.)
Formerly,
that part of a
theater,
on the floor of the
house,
below the level of the stage and
behind
the
orchestra;
now, in
England,
commonly
the part
behind
the
stalls;
in the
United
States,
the
parquet;
also, the
occupants
of such a part of a
theater..
Arrangement
::
Arrangement
(n.) A piece so
adapted;
a
transcription;
as, a
pianoforte
arrangement
of
Beethoven's
symphonies;
an
orchestral
arrangement
of a song, an
opera,
or the
like..
Orchestration
::
Orchestration
(n.) The
arrangement
of music for an
orchestra;
orchestral
treatment
of a
composition;
--
called
also
instrumentation.
Orchestrion
::
Orchestrion
(n.) A large music box
imitating
a
variety
of
orchestral
instruments.
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..
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..
Transcription
::
Transcription
(n.) An
arrangement
of a
composition
for some other
instrument
or voice than that for which it was
originally
written,
as the
translating
of a song, a vocal or
instrumental
quartet,
or even an
orchestral
work, into a piece for the
piano;
an
adaptation;
an
arrangement;
-- a name
applied
by
modern
composers
for the piano to a more or less
fanciful
and
ornate
reproduction
on their own
instrument
of a song or other piece not
originally
intended
for it; as,
Liszt's
transcriptions
of son
String
::
String
(n.) The cord of a
musical
instrument,
as of a
piano,
harp, or
violin;
specifically
(pl.),
the
stringed
instruments
of an
orchestra,
in
distinction
from the wind
instruments;
as, the
strings
took up the
theme..
Conductor
::
Conductor
(n.) The
leader
or
director
of an
orchestra
or
chorus.
Orchestra
::
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..
Kapelle
::
Kapelle
(n.) A
chapel;
hence,
the choir or
orchestra
of a
prince's
chapel;
now, a
musical
establishment,
usually
orchestral..
Melodrama
::
Melodrama
(n.)
Formerly,
a kind of drama
having
a
musical
accompaniment
to
intensify
the
effect
of
certain
scenes.
Now, a drama
abounding
in
romantic
sentiment
and
agonizing
situations,
with a
musical
accompaniment
only in parts which are
especially
thrilling
or
pathetic.
In
opera,
a
passage
in which the
orchestra
plays a
somewhat
descriptive
accompaniment,
while the actor
speaks;
as, the
melodrama
in the
gravedigging
scene of
Beethoven's
Fidelio..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
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