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The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
The chorus was tripled in size and extra musicians were added to the orchestra.
Concertos for the timpani or kettledrums, the big boys of the orchestra, are certainly unusual but not entirely neglected.
Suddenly, the hired orchestra starts to play the wedding march, as Amber enters the chapel.
Here, Polyansky is given about the best sound reproduction the symphony has yet enjoyed and his orchestra isn't bad, either.
Later, when I was a little older, I joined his orchestra, playing alto sax and clarinet.
I did also play in a woodwind orchestra, but the trumpet is very traditional and plays a big role in mining bands.
On the other hand, the arias, despite some dangerously unstable passages and wobbly intonation from the orchestra, were excellent.
An 11-piece band graced the orchestra pit, very few touring companies can boast as many as that, and their accompaniment was very good.
The orchestra first came to Marlborough last December by accident last year.
The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end.
Peter von Winter's contribution is a Sinfonia concertante for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra.
On stage at the concert hall is Roland, the quiet and intense orchestra leader, who is befriended by local musician and The Who fanatic, Alex.
The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings.
This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
It is going to be a musical weekend this Easter, with classical music by the orchestra and township jive at Windybrow.
Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra.
Many bands have tried to take a piece of classical music written for full orchestra and readapt it for rock music.
With a great orchestra, the conductor seldom has to clarify texture, as long as the players follow the markings in the score.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In his use of the modern orchestra Elgar need be considered second to none.
In this place I think the effect would have been greatly enhanced by the adjunction of voices to the orchestra.
His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light.
Of his compositions there remain four suites for orchestra, some small pieces for cembalo and some chorale arrangements.
Monteverde employed still another variety of the lute in his orchestra, called the chitarrone, whence our word guitar.
The orchestra consisted of one lira doppia, one clavicembalo, one chitarrone and two flutes.
The chitarrone was used in the orchestra, assisting at dramatic performances as well as in church music.
Tremolos and chromatics descend upon the orchestra like a storm of hail and rain that almost drown the singers' voices.
I was concertmaster of the conservatory orchestra while studying with Hubay.
It is desirable, then, that all pianos used with orchestra should be tuned to concert pitch if possible.
The orchestra consists of two flutes, two oboi damore, two bassoons, strings and continuo.
The hero is a youth who becomes a cornetist in an orchestra, and works his way up to the leadership of a brass band.
The screechy orchestra is a poor substitute for the grand birds' concerts of June and July.
The solo violin is tuned a semitone higher, and the part is in D, while the orchestra plays in E flat.
We sat as it were in the dress circle, with the orchestra and stage in our front.
I remember the noise of our guns as all our batteries took their parts in a vast orchestra of drumfire.
When Rose married him he was leader of the orchestra at a cafe concert where she sang.
From the ladies' orchestra in the hall came the barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann.
In his hand was a baton which he brandished demoniacally at an orchestra of his own.
Somewhere at a distance a sentimental orchestra was playing, possibly at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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