Definition of Orchestral

1. Adjective. Relating to or composed for an orchestra. "Orchestral score"

Partainyms: Orchestra
Derivative terms: Orchestra

Definition of Orchestral

1. a. Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

Definition of Orchestral

1. Adjective. Relating to an orchestra or to music played by an orchestra. ¹

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Definition of Orchestral

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchestral

orchat
orchats
orchel
orchella
orchellas
orchels
orcheo-
orcheses
orchesis
orchesography
orchestian
orchestra hit
orchestra pit
orchestral (current term)
orchestral bells
orchestrally
orchestras
orchestrate
orchestrated
orchestrater
orchestraters
orchestrates
orchestrating
orchestration
orchestrational
orchestrations
orchestrator
orchestrators

Literary usage of Orchestral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"The second movement — andante — has a remarkable kettle.drum obbligato with its closing theme, probably the first time in orchestral music that this ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"It is to be noted that in orchestral music there is greater room for the display of the emotions as delineate] by the soul of music than in any other form. ..."

3. Essentials in Conducting by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1919)
"CHAPTER X THE orchestral CONDUCTOR DIFFICULTIES Conducting an orchestra from plicated matter than ing a chorus singing four-part music, and the training ..."

4. Music (1900)
"In Australia Alfred Truman, a gentleman of English-Australian birth, has given in Sydney an orchestral concert of his own compositions with a program ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He has exhibited overwhelming skill in both operatic and orchestral works, ... Under the lead of Richard Strauss the chief modern orchestral tendency is ..."

6. Brahms by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1911)
"CHAPTER VI THE orchestral WORKS BRAHMS'S first essay in orchestral writing immediately preceded his first attempt to write for chorus; it was in 1860 that ..."

7. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"His exercise on this occasion was the anthem, ' The ways of Zion do mourn.' Two anthems, with orchestral accompaniments, ' The Lord is King,' and ' Sing, ..."

8. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1903)
"orchestral Instruments and their Use " is a book even more readable in quality than the one mentioned above. It makes comparatively slight drafts on one's ..."

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