Look up: orchestra

1. orchestra
   Latin, meaning: theater space reserved for the Senate / senators
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2. Orchestra
   in ancient Greek, 'dancing place'; circular dancing area for the chorus in the Greek theater); the area between the skene and the slope where the spectators sat.
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3. Orchestra
   1) The musicians who provide the musical backing to a show. 2) The ground floor seating in an auditorium. Also Stalls.
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4. orchestra
   [n] - instrumentalists including string players 2. [n] - seating on the main floor in a theater
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5. Orchestra
   Or'ches·tra noun [ Latin orchestra , Greek ..., orig., the place for the chorus of dancers, from ... to dance: confer French orchestre .] 1. The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by th...
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6. orchestra
   1. 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. ... 2. The place in any public hall appropriated to a band ...
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7. orchestra
   noun seating on the main floor in a theater
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8. orchestra
   noun a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players
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9. Orchestra
   • (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments. • (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evoluti...
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10. orchestra
    (from the article `theatre, Western`) The outdoor setting for performances of Greek drama traditionally comprised three areas: a large circular dancing floor (orchstra in Greek) on which ... ...Lycurgus on the south slope of the Acropolis in about 330 . The centre of the theatre was the original dancing place, a flat, circular space ......
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11. orchestra
    instrumental ensemble of varying size and composition. Although applied to various ensembles found in Western and non-Western music, orchestra in an ... [19 related articles]
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12. Orchestra
    Originally, an orchestra was a semi-circular space in front of a stage where in Ancient Greek theatre the chorus sang and danced. Today the term applies to a body of instrumental performers and also to the part of the theatre where they are positioned. The orchestra is faced by a conductor in the mi...
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13. Orchestra
    The group of musicians that accompany a staged presentation. In the Baroque period, an orchestra consisted of strings and pairs of woodwinds, and continuo; from 1760 forward, orchestras grew in size. Romantic period orchestras may include up to 100 players as in the operas of Berlioz, Puccini, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Richard Strauss.
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14. orchestra
    
    • instrumentalists including string players
    • seating on the main floor in a theater
    
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15. orchestra
    Large group of musicians playing together on different instruments. In Western music, an orchestra is usually based on the bowed, stringed instruments of the violin family, to which is usually added the woodwind, brass, and percussion sections. The number of players per section and the instruments u...
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16. Orchestra
    An `orchestra` is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek...
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17. Orchestra
    (disambiguation) An `orchestra` is an instrumental ensemble usually composed of string, brass, and woodwind sections, sometimes with a percussion section. `Orchestra` may also refer to:
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