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The space in a theater between the stage and the audience originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians Now commonly called orchestra pit to distinguish it from the section of the main floor occupied by spectators...
Concertmeister
The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra the sub leader of the orchestra concert master...
Orchestral
Of or pertaining to an orchestra suitable for or performed in or by an orchestra...
big band
A band that is the size of an orchestra usually playing mostly jazz or swing music The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing sometimes has a lead singer and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music The big bands were popular from the late 1920s to the 1940s Contrasted with combo which has fewer players...
Capelle
The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church...
Concertino
A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra more concise than the concerto...
Concerto
A composition usually in symphonic form with three movements in which one instrument or two or three stands out in bold relief against the orchestra or accompaniment so as to display its qualities or the performers skill...
Conistra
Originally a part of the palestra or gymnasium among the Greeks either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers or the wrestling ground itself Hence a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater...
Drum
An instrument of percussion consisting either of a hollow cylinder over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum to be beaten with a stick or of a metallic hemisphere kettledrum with a single piece of skin to be so beaten the common instrument for marking time in martial music one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra or cavalry band...
Instrument
To perform upon an instrument to prepare for an instrument as a sonata instrumented for orchestra...
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