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Definition of orchestra
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Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
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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..
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..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
Capelle
::
Capelle
(n.) The
private
orchestra
or band of a
prince
or of a
church.
Drum
::
Drum (n.) An
instrument
of
percussion,
consisting
either
of a
hollow
cylinder,
over each end of which is
stretched
a piece of skin or
vellum,
to be
beaten
with a
stick;
or of a
metallic
hemisphere
(kettledrum)
with a
single
piece of skin to be so
beaten;
the
common
instrument
for
marking
time in
martial
music;
one of the pair of
tympani
in an
orchestra,
or
cavalry
band..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Orchestrion
::
Orchestrion
(n.) A large music box
imitating
a
variety
of
orchestral
instruments.
Instrument
::
Instrument
(v. t.) To
perform
upon an
instrument;
to
prepare
for an
instrument;
as, a
sonata
instrumented
for
orchestra..
Ripieno
::
Ripieno
(a.)
Filling
up;
supplementary;
supernumerary;
-- a term
applied
to those
instruments
which only swell the mass or tutti of an
orchestra,
but are not
obbligato..
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..
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..
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
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The place in any
public
hall
appropriated
to a band of
instrumental
musicians.
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..
Concerto
::
Concerto
(n.) A
composition
(usually
in
symphonic
form with three
movements)
in which one
instrument
(or two or
three)
stands
out in bold
relief
against
the
orchestra,
or
accompaniment,
so as to
display
its
qualities
or the
performer's
skill..
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