Orchestra is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ORCHESTRA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large company of musicians (strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion) playing together under a conductor
• a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
• the part of a theatre where the orchestra plays, typically in front of the stage and on a lower level.
• the stalls in a theatre.
• the semicircular space in front of an ancient Greek theatre stage where the chorus danced and sang.
• large group of musicians, esp playing a variety of instruments
• 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.
• The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
• Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
• 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.
• 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.
• The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
• a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players
• seating on the main floor in a theater
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the circular space used by the chorus in front of the proscenium in an ancient Greek theater; a corresponding semicircular space in a Roman theater used for seating important persons

Words related to ORCHESTRA

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Words that contain ORCHESTRA

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How to use ORCHESTRA in a sentence

• It was like listening to an orchestra of which he knew all the instruments, and he heard no jarring notes.
• The artillerymen then became silent and the orchestra tore into the prelude.
• Hence it was natural that Liszt should give up the pianoforte as his specialty and devote himself particularly to the orchestra.
• The orchestra at intervals in this dance made use of some contrivance which sounded like corn popping briskly over the fire.
• Suddenly one of the little Italians dropped his rod, stood up to his full height, lifted his arms very much after the manner of an orchestra leader and joined in with me.
• An orchestra conductor who performs symphonies by Haydn and Mozart, even by Beethoven, has the right to make additions.
• In an instant the orchestra breaks forth into some wonderful German melody, or some deep-voiced, strong-lunged singer sends his rich notes rolling through the hall.
• My son, George Blake, lived in San Bernardino, where he played in the Opera House orchestra and was leader of the Seventh Regiment band.
• It was rendered for the first time in California October 31st, by sixteen solo voices, thirty-five in the chorus and the regular choir, full orchestra and organ.
• At first he took in the Symphony Orchestra because he was dragged thither.
• CHAPTER V THE GREAT DIVIDE Durkin waited until, muffled and far away, the throb and drone of an orchestra floated up to him.
• In the well of the orchestra a hidden flute suddenly ran up a scale ending on E flat.
• These coupled alternatives are not mutually exclusive, any more than the idea of an orchestra is exclusive of that of a single human voice.
• A launch with an orchestra on board flew gaily past.
• He was intending to go to London this season and play with a special orchestra of picked players, but has changed his mind.
• A scarlet orchestra was on the platform, and many people strolled about the floor in attitudes of expectation.
• The whole orchestra of human and animal voices which was within him he called into tumult at once.
• Benches stood about, and in the middle the orchestra played.
• And suddenly he understood the true function of the magnificent orchestra that dominated the scene.
• For when the travelling company meets with misadventure, the orchestra are usually the first to prove unfaithful.
• Prince Karl Lichnowsky gave concerts every Friday evening, frequently taking a part in the orchestra.
• Let us fancy that we sit in the orchestra of a real theater and see before us the stage set as a room with furniture and persons in it.

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