Is orchestra a good elective?

While research has long suggested listening to an orchestra's performance of such well-known pieces as Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro may boost the audience's brain power – a hypothesis aptly named The Mozart Effect—Penn Medicine experts suggest those playing in the orchestra may derive the ...

A modern full-scale symphony orchestra consists of approximately one hundred permanent musicians, most often distributed as follows: 16–18 1st violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4 flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with ...

History. The orchestra traces its origins back to 1448 and the Trumpet Corps at the royal court of King Christian I, and thus has claims to be the oldest orchestra in the world. Over the years, the orchestra moved out of the court and settled down in the pit at the Royal Danish Theatre.

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In most middle school bands, strings (besides the string bass) are not used. If they are, the band is generally considered an orchestra.

The piano is an entire orchestra in itself – but sometimes its sound is a part of the big symphony orchestra.

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Generally, orchestras with fewer than 50 members are called “chamber orchestras," while full-size orchestras of 50 to 100 musicians are called “symphony orchestras" or “philharmonic orchestras."

Romantic Orchestra (1815-1910) Romantic orchestras had as many as 100 players or more, and featuredgreater use of brass and piano.

Orchestration, the arrangement or composition of music for instruments, especially those found in an orchestra.

Don Gainor of Sidney, B. C., wonders why there are never any left-handed violin players in symphony orchestras. ... However, he points out that almost all violinists learn to play the violin by holding the bow with the right hand and the violin with the left because that is how the instrument is made.

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I think the school orchestra is a great learning experience which helps give students fantastic opportunities to both perform and practice as a group, instead of on your own. It allows you to be aware of your own faults as well as what you can do to help make your school orchestra better.

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Orchestra: String. The violin, the smallest instrument in the string family, plays the highest pitch notes among the string instruments. It has four strings and is similar to the viola, but is smaller in size.

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The cost and difficulty to maintain brass and woodwinds is astronomically lower than strings. Areas of mid to lower income are more likely to have a band and chorus program than an orchestra program.

String orchestras can be of chamber orchestra size ranging from between 12 (4 first violins, 3 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and 1 bass = 12) and 21 musicians (6 first violins, 5 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos and 2 double basses= 21) sometimes performing without a conductor.