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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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Orchestric
::
Orchestric
(a.)
Orchestral.
Score
::
Score (v. t.) To write down in
proper
order and
arrangement;
as, to score an
overture
for an
orchestra.
See
Score,
n., 9..
Concertmeister
::
Concertmeister
(n.) The head
violinist
or
leader
of the
strings
in an
orchestra;
the
sub-leader
of the
orchestra;
concert
master.
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..
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..
Tympano
::
Tympano
(n.) A
kettledrum;
--
chiefly
used in the
plural
to
denote
the
kettledrums
of an
orchestra.
See
Kettledrum.
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..
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..
Concertante
::
Concertante
(n.) A
concert
for two or more
principal
instruments,
with
orchestral
accompaniment.
Also
adjectively;
as,
concertante
parts..
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..
Conductor
::
Conductor
(n.) The
leader
or
director
of an
orchestra
or
chorus.
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..
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..
Orchestra
::
Orchestra
(n.)
Loosely:
A band of
instrumental
musicians
performing
in a
theater,
concert
hall, or other place of
public
amusement..
Orchestration
::
Orchestration
(n.) The
arrangement
of music for an
orchestra;
orchestral
treatment
of a
composition;
--
called
also
instrumentation.
Orchester
::
Orchester
(n.) See
Orchestra.
Serpent
::
Serpent
(n.) A bass wind
instrument,
of a loud and
coarse
tone,
formerly
much used in
military
bands,
and
sometimes
introduced
into the
orchestra;
-- so
called
from its
form..
Instrument
::
Instrument
(v. t.) To
perform
upon an
instrument;
to
prepare
for an
instrument;
as, a
sonata
instrumented
for
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
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