symphonicadjective

symphony | American Dictionary

symphony
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɪm·fə·ni/
music
a long piece of music usually in four parts and played by an orchestra (= large group playing different instruments)

Examples of symphony

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His counterexample to my definition is: touching your nose for 30 seconds (short activity) versus listening to a symphony (long activity).
I have always dreamt of playing in a symphony orchestra.
An analogy may be a symphony orchestra whereby, aurally, instruments are added when required and removed when no longer required.
There are occasional exceptions, but in general, the institutions of the symphony, opera and chamber music have ignored our art form.
Most progressive composers must surely have regarded such string symphonies as heard here - all of which were composed between c1740 and c1755 - as an anachronism.
Twelve years later this revised version formed the basis for the symphony movement - after being subjected to further revision.
It also has the dimensions and structure of a symphony; with an assertive opening, slow movement, scherzo, and a summational and revelatory finale.
Is your enjoyment of the music just reduced by 3/60 of what it would have been if the whole symphony were played?
Birds whistle, only man sings, and one cannot hear a song or a symphony without immediately saying: another sentient being is here.
How is a symphony started by the orchestra?
Clearly there is an interface here (although interface is perhaps too rigid a word) between symphonies with titles and symphonies with topics.
Examples of all these processes are found in the symphony's first section.
In the symphony as a whole he let himself down by attempting to hang weighty arguments on material unsuitable for extended treatment.
His catalogue of seventy works includes five symphonies.
She need not have worried: this work is audibly a symphony from first bar to last.
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