Music For Orchestra
Music for Orchestra is a one-movement orchestral composition by the American composer Jerry Goldsmith. The piece was commissioned by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony in 1970 and premiered later that year. Style and composition Lasting roughly eight minutes in performance, the dodecaphonic Music for Orchestra is composed in three connected sections developed from the same Twelve-tone technique, twelve-tone row: the "turbulent" first section, the "introspective" second section, and a climaxing, "very agitated" third section. Inspiration In the 2002 Telarc International Corporation, Telarc release of Music for Orchestra, Goldsmith commented on the work and his motivation for its composition: Instrumentation Music for Orchestra is scored for piccolo, two Western concert flute, flutes, three oboes (3rd doubling Cor anglais, English horn), three clarinets (second doubling E-flat clarinet), three bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), four French horns, four trumpets, four trom ...
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Orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass * woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon * Brass instruments, such as the horn, trumpet, trombone, cornet, and tuba * percussion instruments, such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, and mallet percussion instruments Other instruments such as the piano, harpsichord, and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone as soloist instruments, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic instruments and guitars. A full-size Western orchestra may sometimes be called a or philharmonic orchestra (from Greek ''phil-'', "loving", and "harmony"). The actual number of musicians employ ...
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