An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families, including.
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14 Facts About Symphony orchestra
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The conductor prepares the Symphony orchestra by leading rehearsals before the public concert, in which the conductor provides instructions to the musicians on their interpretation of the music being performed.
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Term Symphony orchestra derives from the Greek ????st?a, the name for the area in front of a stage in ancient Greek theatre reserved for the Greek chorus.
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The third horn in the "Eroica" Symphony orchestra arrives to provide not only some harmonic flexibility, but the effect of "choral" brass in the Trio movement.
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Invention of the piston and rotary valve by Heinrich Stolzel and Friedrich Bluhmel, both Silesians, in 1815, was the first in a series of innovations which impacted the Symphony orchestra, including the development of modern keywork for the flute by Theobald Boehm and the innovations of Adolphe Sax in the woodwinds, notably the invention of the saxophone.
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The Symphony orchestra, depending on the size, contains almost all of the standard instruments in each group.
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Chamber Symphony orchestra is usually a smaller ensemble; a major chamber Symphony orchestra might employ as many as fifty musicians, but some are much smaller.
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Concert Symphony orchestra is an alternative term, as in the BBC Concert Orchestra and the RTE Concert Orchestra.
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In Beethoven's and Felix Mendelssohn's time, the Symphony orchestra was composed of a fairly standard core of instruments, which was very rarely modified by composers.
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The term "Symphony orchestra" can be applied to a jazz ensemble, for example in the performance of big-band music.
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The last major Symphony orchestra to appoint a woman to a permanent position was the Berlin Philharmonic.
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In operas and ballets, the Symphony orchestra accompanies the singers and dancers, respectively, and plays overtures and interludes where the melodies played by the Symphony orchestra take centre stage.
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The symphony orchestra Persimfans was formed without a conductor, because the founders believed that the ensemble should be modeled on the ideal Marxist state, in which all people are equal.
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The Symphony orchestra survived for ten years before Stalin's cultural politics disbanded it by taking away its funding.
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