orchestra
They have annual performances of the composer's major orchestral scores.
He entered to rousing orchestral and choral music.
She sang "Over the Rainbow" to live orchestral accompaniment.

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Examples of orchestral

orchestral
Among the few extended orchestral passages in the opera, perhaps the most substantial is the journey at the beginning of the second act.
As such it is a practical guide which yields considerable insight into the culture and craft of orchestral playing.
The structural repeat is transposed, varied and redistributed, and an agile coda has the soloist in cahoots with its orchestral counterparts.
The orchestral part in bars 34-5 is confined to two harmonised echoes of the voice's db -eb ascent in bar 33.
To save the hypothesis, one might have to limit its application to cases where the orchestral music has only an expressive function.
The final refrain is expanded with more hymn-like authority, yet the sudden tonic triad which concludes the colourful orchestral coda is deceptively affirmative.
And, inevitably, certain movements set aside for solo dancers were played by a solo instrumentalist with light orchestral accompaniment.
It is perceptually important, as it helps the singer's voice to be heard when the orchestral accompaniment is loud.
Usually this is punctuated by orchestral chords, although sometimes the accompaniment is more extended.
In films relating to opera, highlights from the opera's orchestral music were often used to accompany the image on the screen for additional effect.
Along with this expansiveness is a new, more complex relationship between vocal and orchestral parts.
Composed ten operas and a wealth of orchestral, piano, choral and vocal music, a little of which is now being recorded.
In the 1924-25 season there were 451 orchestral concerts.
They are also qualities which emerge from the interview extracts with the other orchestral musicians, which are used effectively to support and illustrate the material.
The pieces on this disc, particularly the orchestral ones, show a composer still in search of his full maturity.
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