Where do the viola players sit in a traditional symphony orchestra?

Modern orchestras are a bit smaller than in the Romantic Era (symphony and other very large orchestras still exist). Some may focus on the unique (or even bizarre) sounds of individual instruments. The modern symphony orchestra varies in size, but typically has a strength of about 100.

The National Symphony Orchestra's forte for falling flat. It's one of the highest-paid orchestras in the United States. Its name gives the impression that it's our country's national orchestra.

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.

It can be a chamber orchestra, which is a small orchestra of around 25 musicians, often playing strings and performing in, historically, palace chambers for royalty. A symphony orchestra is large, sometimes topping 100 members, and is organized to play symphonies (in concert halls).

There are usually 10 to 14 violas in an orchestra and they almost always play the harmony.

String section

The Sections of the Orchestra. The typical orchestra is divided into four groups of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

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.

The order of instruments as they appear in the score is always the same, with woodwind instruments at the top of the page in order from high to low, then the brass. The instruments are identified, usually in Italian (as in this example), German or French.

Triangle, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle with one corner left open. A single stroke on the triangle clearly penetrates the full force of an orchestra, and it is perhaps most effective when used sparingly. ...

Professional orchestral auditions are most oftengoverned under one of the four following systems: Everyone interested in the position is invited to play in person for the audition committee. A small number of applicants are invited to the audition on the basis of their reputation, experience or resume.

Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 – This medley of “Carol of the Bells” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” off the Lost Christmas Eve album is by far their most popular and recognizable Christmas song.

People have been putting instruments together in various combinations for millennia, but it wasn't un- til about 400 years ago that musicians started forming combinations that would eventually turn into the modern orchestra. Around 1600 in Italy, the composer Claudio Monteverdi changed that.

The guy with the stick is called a conducter and he is very important. He keeps time acting as a sort of metronome for everyone and he also indicates dynamics and such to different sections of the orchestra. Without him the orchestra wouldn't play nearly as well together.

Concerto

The typical orchestra is divided into four groups of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. The typical Western marching band, school band, or wind ensemble (woodwinds and brass together are winds) leaves out the strings, but otherwise uses most of the same instruments as the orchestra.