Sentence examples for orchestral devices from inspiring English sources
The foundation of public concerts increased, and orchestras all over Europe followed the pattern set by the famous ensemble maintained by the elector of the Palatine at Mannheim, with its standard size (about 25) and new style of performance with dramatic dynamic effects and orchestral devices (e.g., crescendos, tremolos, grand pauses).
No doubt Mr. Slatkin, who understands the Weill idiom, was worried that the dialogue, spoken over murmuring orchestral music (a terribly melodramatic device), would not be audible.
One authoritative source, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, says this about "Falstaff": "The listener is bombarded by a stunning diversity of rhythms, orchestral textures, melodic motifs and harmonic devices.
His most important achievement was the symphony (K 297) composed for the Concert Spirituel, a brilliant D Major work in which he met the taste of the Parisian public (and musicians) for orchestral display without sacrifice of integrity; indeed he exploited the devices they admired (such as the opening coup d'archet a forceful, unanimous musical gesture) to new formal ends.
In particular, the entry of a solo instrument before an orchestral ritornello in the Fourth and Fifth piano concerti (a device anticipated by Mozart but to quite different effect) reinforces the sense of the soloist as a protagonist, even a romantic hero, an effect later composers would struggle to reproduce.
Wanting to make more orchestral rock, but not wanting to book a backup philharmonic, Mr. Pinder introduced the Mellotron, an organ-like device that would make you swear there was a symphony in the room, and it soon became their signature.
"Orchestral Blockbuster".
American choral and orchestral conductor.
But an orchestral tsaritsa in Russia?
'WAGNER: ORCHESTRAL MUSIC,' Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Berlin Philharmonic.
