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- Major orchestral piece
- Orchestral composition
- Orchestral work
- A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear,
whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
- A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat
resembling the virginal.
- An elaborate instrumental composition for a full
orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four
contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio,
the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term
has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with
arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the
"symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any
composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to
certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
- descriptive orchestral work
- The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as,
corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
- A copy; a transcript.
- An arrangement of a composition for some other
instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as
the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an
orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an
arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a
more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument
of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's
transcriptions of songs by Schubert.