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Definition of Orchestra pit
1. Noun. Lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchestra Pit
Literary usage of Orchestra pit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yearbook (1916)
"The orchestra pit is four feet deep, lined with cement and large enough to ...
The steepness and curve of the seats, the orchestra pit, the river behind. ..."
2. The Theatre of Tomorrow by Kenneth Macgowan (1921)
"For realistic plays or old-fashioned operas this frame is plain and unobtrusive;
there is the ordinary gap of the orchestra pit between the audience and the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases ...by Henry Edward Randall by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"The court instructs the jury that if they shall find from the evidence that the
plaintiff should have seen that the rope guard surrounding the orchestra pit ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases ...by Henry Edward Randall by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"... find from the evidence that the plaintiff could have avoided falling into the
orchestra pit in the defendant's theater by the exercise of ordinary care, ..."
5. Collected Papers on Acoustics by Wallace Clement Sabine (1922)
"... is the reflection from the solid rail in front of the orchestra pit, and a2,
the reflection from the floor of the sound which has passed over the top of ..."
6. The Science of Musical Sounds by Dayton Clarence Miller (1916)
"Various reflected waves or echoes are beginning to appear: Oi is produced by the
screen of the orchestra pit, at is from the main floor, and a, ..."
7. Enrico Caruso: A Biography by Pierre Van Rensselaer Key, Bruno Zirato (1922)
"... (or patiti) was the orchestra pit of the San Carlo. On the right they sat,
assuming all the airs of maestri and professori, and with such a seriousness ..."
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