The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was conceived by Britten as a score for a 1946 documentary film, Instruments of the Orchestra, and it was presented in that medium in London. Soon it was appropriated for the concert hall by symphony orchestras for performance, often with spoken commentary.
An orchestra is a large group of musicians which can include even 100 or more members. A band is a small group of musicians which generally includes a lesser number of members than orchestras. Orchestras use four main families of instruments – strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
Both the director and conductor directs a group of people for a specific outcome, to produce a play and to produce a musical show respectively. More so, both work with a bunch of people, the director works with the crews involve in the production of play and the conductor works with an ensemble musicians.
Orchestra generally refers to any ensemble with sections of bowed string instruments. ... Band, outside the idiom of folk and pop music, generally refers to an ensemble of wind instruments plus percussion section, with or without a string bass.
Orchestra or Orchestra Pit: In productions where live music is required, such as ballet, folk-dance groups, opera, and musicals, the orchestra is positioned in front and below of the stage in a pit.
The brass instruments that are sometimes, but very rarely, used in the concert band:Flugelhorn. Tenor (alto) Horn. Piccolo trumpet. Wagner tuba.
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.
The saxophone is a wind instrument with a reed and the body is made of brass, and so it forms a bridge between the woodwind and brass sections of the orchestra. It has a single reed and a conical bore.
Brass family
Most orchestras have four timpani of different sizes and tuned to different pitches and they are usually played by one musician, who hits the drumheads with felt-tipped mallets or wooden sticks.
Instruments of the OrchestraString family. Violin. Viola [vee-OH-lah] Cello (violoncello) [CHEL-low] ... Woodwind family. Flute, Piccolo. Oboe, English horn. Clarinet, Bass clarinet. ... Brass family. Trumpet. Horn (French horn) Trombone. ... Keyboards and Harp. Celesta [cheh-LESS-tah] Piano. Harpsichord.
Trying to win an orchestra job is extremely competitive as conservatories churn out exceptional musicians, year after year. And the audition isn't the end. There will be about two weeks of “tryout,” followed by a year or more of probation before a musician is finally accepted as a member of the orchestra.
A person who conducts an orchestra can be called a Conductor or a Maestro and the stick which he waves is knows as the baton.
In modern classical music, composers almost invariably orchestrate their own work. ... In musical theatre, the composer typically writes a piano/vocal score and then hires an arranger or orchestrator to create the instrumental score for the pit orchestra to play.
Tail
Orchestration, the arrangement or composition of music for instruments, especially those found in an orchestra.
Orchestras generally have as many string players as they can afford, space permitting. Big budget orchestras will have much larger string sections than orchestras with smaller budgets. Opera orchestras use a smaller string section due to space limitations in the pit.
Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance. ... The most common modern tuning standard uses 440 Hz for A above middle C as a reference note, with other notes being set relative to it. In the literature this is also called international standard pitch.