Symphony Orchestra

Introduction

The symphony orchestra is a group or large ensemble that includes several families of instruments, including woodwinds, brass, percussion and strings. A symphony orchestra and typically have over eighty musicians on your list. Only in some cases, it has more than one hundred, but the number of musicians employed in an interpretation may vary according to the work that will be touched and the size of the place where the presentation will occur. The term "orchestra" is derived from a Greek word that was used to designate the area in front of the stage meant the chorus and means' place to dance (Westrup, pp. 56-61).

Beethoven has been one of the biggest influences in the classical music world. The orchestra plays many different styles of music. Beethoven has been the biggest influence on the classical style with his numerous symphonies he composed. He attributed to being an influence starting in the first half of the 19th century. There are different sizes of orchestras. A smaller orchestra is called a chamber orchestra. A full sized orchestra has 100 or more players in it, and is sometimes referred to as symphony orchestras or a philharmonic orchestra. Some symphony orchestras will have about 80-100 players depending on the size of the venue and the actual piece being played. A chamber orchestra may have 50 players in it depending on the size of the venue or the piece being played. Although there are that many players, when an orchestra is playing, in order to be extraordinary, they must all play as one. Some even say that orchestras will all breathe in the same time during rests. If there is even just one player playing out of tune or in a different time, the entire piece of music would be played wrong. It is important that players in an orchestra practice for several hours. In orchestras like the philharmonic, players will practice sometimes 8 hours a day. In especially orchestra, practice does make perfect. It is all about conditioning ones fingers to get used to playing the notes of a piece. Having your fingers conditioned to the piece of music that is being played is helpful in quick songs in particular. This is because if one knows where to place their fingers, enduring pieces are fast, but ones fingers are able to quickly place their fingers in the correct spot on the finger board (Zaslaw, pp. ...