Type of orchestra
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MUSIC PROJECT
Music Instruments Activity 4
GROUP 1:
Type of Orchestra
Orchestras are as diverse as the music they perform, from opera and classical tomodern jazz and movie themes. An orchestra is an ancient art form that started with small groups of musicians more than 2,000 years ago and evolved into a company up to 100 players.
Symphony
A symphonyorchestra consists of a group of 50 to 100 musicians. It contains string, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. The average size of a full orchestra is about 80 players. A modern orchestra mayconsist of nine woodwind instruments, 10 brass instruments, 12 percussion and 50 to 60 string instruments. It is not uncommon for a city to have more than one orchestra--New York has a symphony andphilharmonic, which have the same structure but different names to tell them apart. Symphonies play various types of music from classical to film scores and jazz. They are always led by a conductor.Chamber
A chamber orchestra is a smaller version of a symphony and has less than 50 musicians. The name means the orchestra is small enough to fit in the chamber room of a private home or publichall. It uses one musician per musical part, unlike the two to three musicians playing the same part in a symphony. An exception is the amount of string instruments, which are generally the same inchamber and symphony orchestras. The type of music played is identical to a symphony orchestra. They are also led by a conductor.
Jazz orchestra
Orchestral jazz is a jazz genre developed in the UnitedStates in the 1920s, most significantly by Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington. As early as the 1910s there had been dance orchestras playing the popular songs of the day along with a smattering ofjazz. But the first to truly perform and record orchestral jazz was Fletcher Henderson, starting in about 1923, who gathered from smaller quintets and sextets a number of notable New York based...
Music Instruments Activity 4
GROUP 1:
Type of Orchestra
Orchestras are as diverse as the music they perform, from opera and classical tomodern jazz and movie themes. An orchestra is an ancient art form that started with small groups of musicians more than 2,000 years ago and evolved into a company up to 100 players.
Symphony
A symphonyorchestra consists of a group of 50 to 100 musicians. It contains string, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. The average size of a full orchestra is about 80 players. A modern orchestra mayconsist of nine woodwind instruments, 10 brass instruments, 12 percussion and 50 to 60 string instruments. It is not uncommon for a city to have more than one orchestra--New York has a symphony andphilharmonic, which have the same structure but different names to tell them apart. Symphonies play various types of music from classical to film scores and jazz. They are always led by a conductor.Chamber
A chamber orchestra is a smaller version of a symphony and has less than 50 musicians. The name means the orchestra is small enough to fit in the chamber room of a private home or publichall. It uses one musician per musical part, unlike the two to three musicians playing the same part in a symphony. An exception is the amount of string instruments, which are generally the same inchamber and symphony orchestras. The type of music played is identical to a symphony orchestra. They are also led by a conductor.
Jazz orchestra
Orchestral jazz is a jazz genre developed in the UnitedStates in the 1920s, most significantly by Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington. As early as the 1910s there had been dance orchestras playing the popular songs of the day along with a smattering ofjazz. But the first to truly perform and record orchestral jazz was Fletcher Henderson, starting in about 1923, who gathered from smaller quintets and sextets a number of notable New York based...
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