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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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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..
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..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Strictly:
A band
suitable
for the
performance
of
symphonies,
overtures,
etc., as well as for the
accompaniment
of
operas,
oratorios,
cantatas,
masses,
and the like, or of vocal and
instrumental
solos..
Concertmeister
::
Concertmeister
(n.) The head
violinist
or
leader
of the
strings
in an
orchestra;
the
sub-leader
of the
orchestra;
concert
master.
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..
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..
Trumpet
::
Trumpet
(n.) A wind
instrument
of great
antiquity,
much used in war and
military
exercises,
and of great value in the
orchestra.
In
consists
of a long
metallic
tube,
curved
(once or
twice)
into a
convenient
shape,
and
ending
in a bell. Its scale in the lower
octaves
is
limited
to the first
natural
harmonics;
but there are
modern
trumpets
capable,
by means of
valves
or
pistons,
of
producing
every tone
within
their
compass,
although
at the
expense
of the true
ringing
quality
of
tone..
Bugle
::
Bugle (n.) A
copper
instrument
of the horn
quality
of tone,
shorter
and more
conical
that the
trumpet,
sometimes
keyed;
formerly
much used in
military
bands,
very
rarely
in the
orchestra;
now
superseded
by the
cornet;
--
called
also the Kent
bugle..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The place in any
public
hall
appropriated
to a band of
instrumental
musicians.
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.) The
instruments
employed
by a full band,
collectively;
as, an
orchestra
of forty
stringed
instruments,
with
proper
complement
of wind
instruments..
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..
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