1) Band
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1) Boston Pops 2) Good seat location 3) Group in a pit 4) Group of musicians 5) Italian instrument term 6) Italian musical instrument 7) Italian musical term 8) Italian instrument 9) Large ensemble 10) Large group of musicians 11) Mehta leads one 12) Musical group 13) Musical organisation 14) Musical organization
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- instrumentalists including string players
- seating on the main floor in a theater
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Latin, meaning: theater space reserved for the Senate / senators
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An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes be grouped into a fifth section such as a keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and electric and electronic instruments. The term orchestra...
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• (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 evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinc...
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(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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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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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 of instrumental musicians. ... 3. Loosely: A band ...
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(1) In modern theaters, the ground-floor area on the first floor where the audience sits to watch th
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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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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 the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterwa...
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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 middle, who stands with his back to the audience, an...
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a performance group of diverse instruments; in Western music, an ensemble of multiple string parts with various woodwind, brass, and percussion parts.
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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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noun seating on the main floor in a theater
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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 used may vary according to the needs of the compose...
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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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A large group of instrumentalists playing together.
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a large instrumental ensemble. orchestration
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A group of instrumentalists who accompany singers in an opera.
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a group of performers on various musical instruments, including esp. stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions. · (in a modern theater) · the space reserved for the musicians, usually the front ...
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a body of people playing various musical instruments, including stringed and wind instruments.
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The group of musicians who are led by the conductor and accompany the singers.
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a large ensemble of instruments divided into four main sections: strings, woodwind, brass and percussion
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