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Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude..

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

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

Natural :: Natural (a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music..

Duet :: Duet (n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental..

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement..

Inservient :: Inservient (a.) Conducive; instrumental.

Vocalist :: Vocalist (n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist..

Instrumentalist :: Instrumentalist (n.) One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist..

Smell :: Smell (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) Agency; instrumentality.

Canzone :: Canzone (n.) An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.

Quatuor :: Quatuor (n.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.

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..

Mean :: Mean (n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance..

Instrumentally :: Instrumentally (adv.) With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied..

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..

Instrumentality :: Instrumentality (n.) The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

Instrumentist :: Instrumentist (n.) A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.

Agency :: Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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