Classical Orchestras most often play classical, instrumental music and you can quickly identify them by their characteristic mix of instruments from four main instrument families (more on those later). When orchestras are really large, we call them symphony orchestras.
A. A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including strings, woodwinds, brass instruments, and percussion instruments. b. The instruments played by such a group.
Leopold StokowskiResting placeEast Finchley CemeteryKnown forMusic director of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Founder of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony OrchestraNotable workFilm: Walt Disney's Fantasia Carnegie Hall One Hundred Men and a Girl.
Orchestra Musician Salary
| Annual Salary | Weekly Pay | |
|---|---|---|
| Top Earners | $78,500 | $1,509 |
| 75th Percentile | $58,000 | $1,115 |
| Average | $47,706 | $917 |
| 25th Percentile | $24,000 | $461 |
Orchestration, the arrangement or composition of music for instruments, especially those found in an orchestra. See instrumentation.
A symphony is a large-scale musical composition, usually with three or four movements. An orchestra is a group of musicians with a variety of instruments, which usually includes the violin family.
Traditional Chinese musical instruments were classified into eight groups (bayin) according to their materials: gourd, earthenware, hide, wood, stone, bronze, silk and bamboo. It is said that there were more than 70 different musical instruments, but many of them have been lost or are obsolete today.
The flute is the highest sounding of the standard orchestra woodwind instruments (although the piccolo is higher). It's played played by blowing air across a hole in the mouthpiece. Because it's higher in pitch, like the violin, it will often play the melody of a piece.
Conductor, in music, a person who conducts an orchestra, chorus, opera company, ballet, or other musical group in the performance and interpretation of ensemble works.
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Eleven to fourteen brass instruments will be found in the orchestra. The brass family usually sits across the back of the orchestra. The HORN is in the back row of the orchestra, behind the bassoons and clarinets. The horn is a very long brass tube wrapped around in a circle several times.
The Concert orchestra is a preparatory group that works on building a musical foundation through classical pieces that are arranged for younger musicians. The Symphony Orchestra is a more advancedgroup that focuses on performing original classical repertoire at a professional level.
Technically speaking, it's not hard to conduct. The technique for a basic four-four pattern can be taught in maybe 15 minutes. After that's it's whatever nuance you want to add to your motions to express nonverbally what you want the group to do.
The HORN is in the back row of the orchestra, behind the bassoons and clarinets. The horn is a very long brass tube wrapped around in a circle several times. If you unwound a horn's tubing, it would be twenty-two feet in length! The TRUMPET sits to the right of the horns, and the TROMBONE sits behind the trumpet.
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The word derives from the ancient Greek part of a stage where instruments and the chorus combined music and drama to create theater. The first semblance of a modern orchestra came in the early 17th century when the Italian opera composer Claudio Monteverdi formally assigned specific instruments to perform his music.
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Generally speaking, orchestras wear black, or some othergrayish gradient.
In an orchestra, the first-chair violinist is known as the concertmaster.
Repertoire. Below you will find descriptions and music lists for each of the 5 classification levels of orchestras in FOA. ... ES - Grade 1. Suitable for late first year to second year players, on average. ... DS - Grade 2. ... CS - Grade 3. ... BS - Grade 4-5. ... AS - Grade 6+ ... Solo & Ensemble.
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Major orchestra salaries range by the orchestra from a little over $100,000 to a little over $150,000. Principals, the ranking member of each orchestra section, can make a great deal more, in some instances more than $400,000. And most major orchestras play for a season lasting only about nine- months a year.