How did the orchestra get its name?

Baroque Orchestra (1600-1760) Baroque orchestras had from 10 to 30 players, primarily strings. In the Baroque orchestra, the strings and winds played the same sort of music melodically and rhythmically.

The TRUMPET sits to the right of the horns, and the TROMBONE sits behind the trumpet.

In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously. In vocal music, intonation also signifies the singing of an opening phrase.

Percussion instruments
The percussion instruments are an international family, with ancestors from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe representing musical styles from many different cultures. Also called orchestra bells, the glockenspiel resembles a small xylophone, but it is made of steel bars.

Generally speaking, they are the piccolo (highest note is the highest C on the piano, although it requires a skilled player to comfortably play the notes in the top half or so of the highest octave) and the contrabassoon (which can comfortably reach the lowest Bb on the piano, and some instruments with a low A ...

Also Called. Musical Director. The music director of an orchestra performs three overlapping roles—principal conductor, artistic director, and community arts leader—and has enormous influence over the orchestra's creative direction.

The word "balcony" has a certain nose-bleed connotation, and ticket buyers are less spooked by the word "mezzanine." Front mezzanine seats are usually as good as orchestra seats, sometimes better, depending on the show. For a show with a visual sweep or intricate choreography, you might be better off in the mezzanine.

If space or numbers are limited, cellos and basses can be put in the middle, violins and violas on the left (thus facing the audience) and winds to the right; this is the usual arrangement in orchestra pits.

Is that chorus is a group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient greece while orchestra is (music) a large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.

The earliest violins were used for popular and dance music. During the 17th century it replaced the viol as the primary stringed instrument in chamber music. The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi included violins in the orchestra of his opera Orfeo (first performed in 1607).

The oboe first appeared in France in the 17th century. Subsequently, more advanced, German-style oboes spread throughout Europe. At the end of the 19th century, however, oboes with a revolutionary new mechanism were created in France, changing the situation considerably.

Conductor

A professional orchestra probably practices around 2–3 hours. For a professional group, the players can probably only practice around 2–3 hours per day (and this is focused practice, not watch the video then practice or walk around procrastinating).

Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping or hitting the instrument.
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Tambourine.

A symphony orchestra will usually have over eighty musicians on its roster, in some cases over a hundred, but the actual number of musicians employed in a particular performance may vary according to the work being played and the size of the venue.

Founded in 1842 as the Philharmonic Society of New York under the conductorship of American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the orchestra merged with Walter Damrosch's Symphony Society of New York in 1928.

The traditional orchestra has five sections of instruments: the woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, and keyboards. The strings section is usually the largest and generally carries the melody.

The primary responsibilities of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble, and to control the interpretation and pacing of the music.

Within the orchestra the piano usually supports the harmony, but it has another role as a solo instrument (an instrument that plays by itself), playing both melody and harmony.

Yes. That definitely is a sport. All the skill of an orchestra, and marching 8 to 5 for hours at a time.

1937
Formed in 1937, the CSO gave its first concert on February 16, 1938 under the direction of Richard Oppenheim. Louis Lane, Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, became its second Music Director in 1949.

Tuba

The sound qualities of the instruments are very different and they do vary dramatically in the volume of sound they produce. Some musical instruments produce a very smooth sound while others can be more shrill.