During the Romantic period (ca. 1800-1910), string sections were significantly enlarged to produce a louder, fuller string sound that could match the loudness of the large brass sections used in orchestral music from this period. During the modern era, some composers requested smaller string sections.
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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.
A symphony orchestra will usually have over eighty musicians on its roster, in some cases over a hundred, but the actual number of musicians employed in a particular performance may vary according to the work being played and the size of the venue.
If the string section is the most defining of the orchestra, the violins are generally the most defining members of the string family (don't tell the cellists). The violins carry the melody, particularly the first violins. The second violins will often support the first violins' harmony by playing it in a lower pitch.
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Conductor Arturo Toscanini
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1716 The earliest known orchestral use of the clarinet was in the chorus "Plena nectare" from Vivaldi's oratorio "Juditha Triumphans." 1718 Caldara's opera "Ifigenia in Aulide" may be the first to use clarinets but it is possible that these parts were intended for clarini not clarinets.
1a : the circular space used by the chorus in front of the proscenium in an ancient Greek theater. b : a corresponding semicircular space in a Roman theater used for seating important persons.
Some types of bands include concert bands, jazz bands, marching bands, Christian bands, cover bands, heavy metal bands, etc. 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.
At a basic level conducting is very simple. It keeps an orchestra or a choir in time and together. But that's just the starting point. Most importantly a conductor serves as a messenger for the composer.
Virtual machine scale sets with Uniform orchestration use a virtual machine profile or template to scale up to desired capacity. While there is some ability to manage or customize individual virtual machine instances, Uniform uses identical VM instances.
Orchestra instruments are grouped into four main families: the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family.
People have been putting instruments together in various combinations for as long as there have been instruments, thousands and thousands of years. But it wasn't until about the last 400 years that musicians started forming into combinations that turned into the modern orchestra.
The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, gongs, chimes, celesta, and piano.
So why do today's orchestras tune to the oboe? The penetrating sound of the oboe stands out from the orchestra, so it's easy for all the musicians to hear. Its pitch is also steadier than strings, so it's a more reliable tuning source. ... So they became the standard instrument for tuning.
The Royal Danish Orchestra
In Western music, a steady sound can be referred to as a musical tone. The tone is characterized most frequently by its pitch, such as "A" or "C," but it also includes timbre (the quality of the sound), duration, and even intensity (the dynamic of the sound).
A gathering of musicians in Frankfurt, Germany, broke the world record for largest orchestra. After a few visits to your local symphony orchestra (or philharmonic — they're all pretty much the same anyway), you may start to notice that the size may fluctuate between pieces.
The violin often carries the melody in an orchestral work as its brilliant sound carries easily over many of the other instruments. There are usually two sections of violins, first violins and second violins, and they play different parts (different music has been written for each group).
An orchestra tunes itself to a very particular frequency, usually 440 hertz, a note known as A 440. The note is played by the oboist, and the rest of the orchestra tunes their instruments to match it. The oboe leads the tuning because of all the instruments, it is least affected by humidity or other weather conditions.
Romantic orchestras had as many as 100 players or more, and featuredgreater use of brass and piano.