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Example sentences for "orchestral"

Lexicographically close words:
orcharding; orchardist; orchardists; orchards; orchestra; orchestras; orchestrated; orchestration; orchestre; orchestrion
  1. Among her works are a symphony, three overtures, and a number of smaller orchestral selections, as well as some worthy piano pieces.

  2. While the world would not willingly dispense with the orchestral works of Schumann and Mendelssohn (Wagner's efforts being in a separate field), there seems much truth in the idea thus advanced.

  3. Some are provided with violin obligato, while others have orchestral accompaniments.

  4. Her organ symphony is especially noteworthy, and all her orchestral works show decided talent.

  5. Another orchestral composer is Theodosia de Tschitscherin, whose Grand Festival March was performed at a coronation anniversary.

  6. Among living composers, Princess Beatrice of Battenberg is the author of a number of melodious songs, also an orchestral march and some church responses.

  7. Her orchestral ability showed itself also in the form of a concerto for piano, while among her other works are a number of songs and a good deal of instrumental music.

  8. In purely orchestral vein she has produced a serenade in D and the overture "Antony and Cleopatra," both being given at the Crystal Palace in 1890.

  9. Her other orchestral works consist of two suites, one of them being arranged from "Callirrhoe.

  10. An orchestral ballade won much success in Baltimore in 1901.

  11. Nobody had ever heard of an orchestral player who had left much.

  12. The programme consisted of orchestral selections and choruses from the song books used in the public schools, sung by the children.

  13. She adjusted her handkerchief to her shoulder, and with a light touch played snatches of the orchestral part, as if to give a hint as to its proper rendering.

  14. She had brought the orchestral parts of the concerto she was to play, and began to talk in an animated manner about their use.

  15. Pasdeloup, the orchestral director, was present and then and there invited her to play with his famous orchestra.

  16. From the choice of an instrument to finished delivery and orchestral playing, 'Chats to 'Cello Students' leaves nothing undiscussed.

  17. Every kind of bowing and fingering, the portamento, harmonic effects, arpeggios and their evolution from various chords, are all ably treated, and the work concludes with a few remarks on orchestral playing which are of especial interest.

  18. He declared that reducing the orchestral parts so as to make a complete piano accompaniment was one of the most tedious things he ever experienced.

  19. We have small chance to study purely orchestral music.

  20. My dear young lady, what can you possibly want of orchestral scores?

  21. It is true that Toscanini gives a series of orchestral concerts after the season, but they are, as a rule, unsuccessful," he said.

  22. I recall now an especially vivid one which Chadwick once made to his orchestral class: "Here you have your instruments of the orchestra just like so many colors on a palette," he said.

  23. But don't forget the classics either; and never study Schumann or Brahms for orchestral writing.

  24. Then I can get orchestral scores," I said.

  25. The most laborious thing I ever did in my life was writing out the orchestral parts from here on," he said, playing the theme of the duet.

  26. There are still a good many orchestral players amongst us who have a warm corner in their hearts for the "Doctor," and a profound respect for his mastery of the high art of conducting.

  27. In orchestral music it is of course one of the most valuable instruments for filling in the harmony.

  28. The piccolo is used widely in band music and quite often in orchestral music also, but since the tone is so brilliant and penetrating and is incapable of any great variation, it is not suitable for solo performance.

  29. Footnote 41: The ranges noted in connection with these descriptions of instruments are ordinarily the practical orchestral or band ranges rather than those which are possible in solo performance.

  30. A burst of orchestral music, through which a powerful gong sounds, is heard from the temple.

  31. He is also the author of a number of orchestral compositions.

  32. Miss Powell is best known to the American public through the medium of her solos given in connection with orchestral concerts of Thomas, Seidl, Gericke, Nikisch, Damrosch and others.

  33. The hall was large, the orchestral accompaniment too strong, and his violin could be heard only when he played fortissimo.

  34. At four o’clock the score for all the orchestral parts was written out.

  35. The state of Karma [calmer], orchestral conversation, and solo speaking.

  36. It performed vocal and instrumental music and was the medium through which Bach presented his secular Cantatas, Clavier and Violin Concertos, and Orchestral Suites to the public.

  37. Orchestral music is included in the Chamber Music volumes.

  38. Perhaps an arrangement of an orchestral piece.

  39. Of orchestral colour, of orchestration in the modern sense, there was little.

  40. In July he went to Oxford, and was given an honorary degree; he directed three orchestral concerts there--imagine it!

  41. He began his public life at Königsberg by conducting orchestral concerts in the town theatre.

  42. We went to call on Sainton, who was as refined a soloist as he was an intelligent and energetic orchestral leader.

  43. The greatness of his power as an orchestral writer is undeniable, yet many instances could be quoted where he has misapplied a particular instrument of whose character, through his deafness, he had lost the exact knowledge.

  44. To avoid expense he borrowed the orchestral parts from Leipzic, learned the symphony by heart, and went through all the band parts himself, marking the nuances and tempi.

  45. Accident or fate willed it that shortly before his death the orchestral parts were discovered at Dresden.

  46. But if the grand opera procured him no pleasure he was compensated by the orchestral performances at the Conservatoire de Musique.

  47. All the principal theatres responded with the exception of Munich, which through its conductor, Lachner, refused to permit orchestral members of the theatre to attend, giving as the flimsy pretext that journeymen, i.

  48. His inventive faculty, the irresistible charm of his melody, his entirely new delineation and orchestral colouring of character, are immeasurably superior to anything of the kind which preceded him.

  49. The dauntless expressiveness of its themes seemed admirably adapted for orchestral treatment, and he therefore wrote an overture upon it.

  50. In its last stages he extends its dimensions, adds the refrain for chorus and an orchestral accompaniment.

  51. Beethoven's friendly feeling for Hensler gave rise to a new orchestral composition a few weeks later.

  52. To point out some particularly fine vistas, among many, we should mention that from the Orchestral Niche in the Court of the Four Seasons, looking toward the bay, or from the same court toward the Fine Arts Palace - and many more.

  53. In entering through the orchestral niche one passes directly underneath the lunette which holds the very decorative canvas by Arthur Mathews, the acknowledged leader in the art of California.

  54. I think that Albert Jaegers, with his two single figures on top of the two columns flanking the Orchestral Niche, actually represents our own two seasons much more successfully than does Piccirilli.

  55. The Court of the Four Seasons offers a decorative scheme of eight panels above the doorways in the colonnades and two large panels in the orchestral niche on the south.

  56. Orchestral leaders and performers are not content unless they have a very full score to "interpret.

  57. In his orchestral work we have the most masterly instrumental coloring; a knowledge and an elaboration which is unsurpassed, and also uninspired.

  58. The Subscription Orchestral Concerts were instituted in 1873 by Mr. Stockley, the conductor of the Festival Choral Society.

  59. Mr. Stockley must now be congratulated upon the successful result of thirteen years’ hard work, under very discouraging circumstances at first, to popularise good orchestral music.

  60. The Edgbaston Amateur Musical Union was established in 1863, for the cultivation and encouragement of the taste for orchestral music, and for the study and performance of orchestral works by the great composers.

  61. It is not the real MacDowell, notwithstanding the mastery of technical material, the genuine feeling for orchestral colour, which is natural, not studied.

  62. He did not go far enough in his orchestral work to warrant our saying: "Here is something new!

  63. A song is for the voice and is not bettered by orchestral arrangement.

  64. Flaubert was not obsessed by the "unique word," but by a style which is merged in the idea; as the melodic and harmonic phrases of Richard Wagner were born simultaneously and clothed in the appropriate orchestral colours.

  65. I do enjoy much of it, especially the Indian Orchestral Suite; but the sonatas stir the blood, above all the imagination.

  66. I've heard few of his larger orchestral works.

  67. Even Berlioz, whose orchestral ozone revivified the scores of Wagner and Liszt; even mad Hector, with the flaming locks, sounded garishly empty, brilliantly superficial.

  68. The so-called "orchestral test" is no test at all; only a confusion of terms and of artistic substances.

  69. He gave, with the orchestral accompaniment, a Berceuse, his own composition, with unapproachable delicacy.

  70. The work lost in unity of style more than it gained by the addition of these two songs, of which the orchestral accompaniment is in Mozart's later style, and the design and treatment are different from those of the other movements.

  71. July, 1785, is an orchestral composition of wonderful beauty and originality.

  72. We doubtless owe the Concerto for two claviers with orchestral accompaniment in E flat major (365 K.

  73. The orchestral workmanship shows that Mozart had not listened to the Mannheim band in vain; the different instruments form a well-ordered whole, in which each has its individual significance.

  74. But it is easy to see that Mozart was aware that the delicate details and the orchestral treatment that are present throughout the opera would not be in place here.

  75. The frequent concerts gave opportunity for a large number of musicians to educate themselves into good orchestral players, and the composers found constant employment in every branch of their art.

  76. The effect of the melodrama lingers in the dramatic character of the instrumental interludes, which is sharply emphasised by the great variety of orchestral tone-colouring.

  77. The words are rendered with a declamatory spoken accent; and not only are they strictly in time, but the harmonies are so arranged that a full orchestral chord is given to every note of the song.

  78. He used to take only the orchestral parts with him on his journeys, and to play himself from a clavier part of most extraordinary appearance, according to Rochlitz.

  79. Here the orchestral part is rich in striking harmonic detail, and in fine and original sound effects, which so completely enchant and satisfy the ear as scarcely to allow of a climax.

  80. Those scenes where the established art-forms had been deserted in order to give vent to orchestral painting or new combinations were unanimously declared to be the failings of the operas.

  81. Italians possess neither the industry nor the application requisite to plan and build a vast orchestral conception.

  82. They can create it as naturally as they sing it, and it is no concern to them to write a melody, or sketch a lightly-contrived orchestral piece in the snug corner of a cafe, or behind the sheltering blind of a sun-pierced osteria.

  83. The effect of the ensemble is most imposing; the parts are well and distinctly defined, and to the individual bursts are added the choral and orchestral combinations.

  84. He invested recitative with greater strength and freedom, and astonished contemporary purists with his audacious orchestral designs.

  85. Without development there can be no such thing as a great orchestral structure.

  86. Among the many orchestral points of Nabucco, the harp accompaniment in the Virgins' chorus, and the employment of the brass instruments in the great crescendos are particularly novel and effective.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orchestral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.