Trans-siberian. com. Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team.
The Sections of the Orchestra. The typical orchestra is divided into four groups of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition.
The classical musical style was supported by technical developments in instruments. ... Over the Classical period, keyboard instruments became richer, more sonorous and more powerful. The orchestra increased in size and range, and became more standardised.
Professional symphony orchestras have 30 violins, and 12 violas. The tuba section, unfortunately, does not scale-up as much. In fact, it doesn't scale up at all: middle school orchestras have one tuba, and professional orchestras have one tuba.
The tuba is the largest and lowest brass instrument and anchors the harmony not only of the brass family but the whole orchestra with its deep rich sound. ... There is generally only one tuba in an orchestra and it usually plays harmony.
Timbre is commonly referred to as orchestral or vocal colour. The formalists just mentioned characterize musical works as pure (that is, colourless) patterns of notes or sound sequences. ... There is nothing in the concept of a pitch pattern that determines the timbre that will most perspicuously realise it.
Named after the Venezuelan national hero Simón Bolívar, it is the apex of the nation's system of youth orchestras, although by 2011, it was no longer officially a youth orchestra because the average age of the players had risen too high. ... Gustavo Dudamel has been the orchestra's artistic director since 1999.
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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.
It varies, but most orchestra concerts are about 90 minutes to two hours long, with an intermission at the halfway point.
Most importantly a conductor serves as a messenger for the composer. It is their responsibility to understand the music and convey it through gesture so transparently that the musicians in the orchestra understand it perfectly. Those musicians can then transmit a unified vision of the music out to the audience.
A sonata can be played by an orchestra or just one instrument, like a piano. ... Beethoven and Mozart famously composed sonatas for the piano, and modern composers continue to write sonatas for many different instruments.
Brass section
The actual number of musicians employed in a given performance may vary from seventy to over one hundred musicians, depending on the work being played and the size of the venue. A chamber orchestra (sometimes concert orchestra) is a smaller ensemble of not more than about fifty musicians.