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Definition of orchestra
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Orchestra
(n.) The
instruments
employed
by a full band,
collectively;
as, an
orchestra
of forty
stringed
instruments,
with
proper
complement
of wind
instruments..
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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..
Orchestre
::
Orchestre
(n.) See
Orchestra.
Kapelle
::
Kapelle
(n.) A
chapel;
hence,
the choir or
orchestra
of a
prince's
chapel;
now, a
musical
establishment,
usually
orchestral..
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
Orchestric
::
Orchestric
(a.)
Orchestral.
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..
Concertante
::
Concertante
(n.) A
concert
for two or more
principal
instruments,
with
orchestral
accompaniment.
Also
adjectively;
as,
concertante
parts..
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..
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..
Orchester
::
Orchester
(n.) See
Orchestra.
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..
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..
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..
Instrument
::
Instrument
(v. t.) To
perform
upon an
instrument;
to
prepare
for an
instrument;
as, a
sonata
instrumented
for
orchestra..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
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..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
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..
Concertino
::
Concertino
(n.) A piece for one or more solo
instruments
with
orchestra;
-- more
concise
than the
concerto.
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..
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