(n.) 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.
(n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
(n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
(n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
(n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
(n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(2) The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth in 2007.
(3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(4) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
(5) He opens the residency on 23 June with Ludwig van Beethoven , a composer he has never performed in London with this orchestra.
(6) The plans also follow the high-profile interruption by protesters of a performance by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.
(7) "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened.
(8) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
(9) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(10) There was a long-standing anomaly that while the in-house symphony orchestras and the music broadcasts, including the Proms, were administered by Drummond's department, all the scheduling was in the hands of the controller of Radio 3, a post then held by Ian McIntyre, a journalist with no great sympathy for music.
(11) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(12) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
(13) The existence of two leading orchestras in one broadcasting organisation is a legacy of the allied occupation of Germany after the second world war.
(14) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(15) In attempting to fight off closure in the past couple of years, the orchestra had reached a new audience by playing concerts at community centres.
(16) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
(17) His enthusiasm for new music was balanced by an acute historical perspective and a love of young people: he greatly increased the number of appearances by youth orchestras, upping it to five in the 1993 season.
(18) He oversees Radio 3 , the Proms, five BBC orchestras, the BBC Singers and the choruses attached to two of the orchestras.
(19) All of these ensembles are founded with different values from those of a conventional orchestra.
(20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.
Percussion
Definition:
(n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
(n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
(n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(2) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(3) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(4) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
(5) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
(6) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
(7) A newer technique, ausculatory percussion, has been reported as having a far higher sensitivity.
(8) Sheep fail to demonstrate changes in any of these variables after severe percussive wave brain trauma.
(9) Beneficial effects for opiate receptor antagonists have also been observed after fluid percussion head injury in cats.
(10) The chi-square results indicated that the peptostreptococcus were significantly related to apical radiolucency and B. melaninogenicus were significantly related to percussion or foul smell.
(11) These data demonstrate that fluid percussion injury in the rat reproduces many of the features of head injury observed in other models and species.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SprungDigi crew member creating percussion sounds for MusicMix.
(13) The subcutaneous thickening, the tenderness on compression and percussion of the hypothenar eminence or Raynaud's phenomenon of the last fingers should arise the suspicion of this syndrome, which will be confirmed by a positive Allen's test, Doppler examination or digitalized angiography.
(14) Bladder percussion produced contraction of the wall of the bladder and this was regularly associated with increased arterial mean and pulse pressures, a decreased heart rate and calf and hand blood flow, and venoconstriction.
(15) 10 out of 26 cases of pneumothorax could be suspected by percussion dullness.
(16) 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to determine the intracellular free Mg2+ concentration prior to and following fluid percussion induced traumatic brain injury in rats.
(17) This model employs the same fluid percussion device commonly used in in vivo brain injury studies.
(18) The fluid percussion device was attached over the right parietal cortex and a moderate (2.0 atm) intensity injury was produced.
(19) Neurological examinations revealed that she had facial diplegia, inverted V-shaped mouth, high-arched palate, talipes equinus, percussion myotonia of the tongue, generalized muscular atrophy and weakness, lordosis, areflexia, and congenital cataracta.
(20) The visco-elastic properties of a healthy tooth enabling the percussion of the Periotest tapping head to be decelerated in less than 1 ms are largely lost in periodontitis.