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- 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.
- Orchestra - n. - The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
- Orchestra - n. - Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
- 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.
- Orchestra - n. - A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
- Orchestra - n. - The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
- Orchestral - a. - Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
- Orchestration - n. - The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
- Parquet - n. - A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
- Capelle - n. - The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.
- Ophicleide - n. - A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas.
- Orchestra - n. - The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
- Instrumentation - n. - The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
- Nocturne - n. - A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.
- Conductor - n. - The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
- Melodrama - n. - Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- Conistra - n. - Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.
- Kapelle - n. - A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral.