Orchestra

['ɔːkɪstrə] or ['ɔrkɪstrə]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) seating on the main floor in a theater.

(noun.) a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players.

整理:米莉--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.

(n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.

(n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.

(n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.

(n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.

(n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.

阿黛尔編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Place for musicians (as in a theatre).[2]. Band of instrumental musicians (in an orchestra).

校對:潘西

解釋/意思:

n. in the Greek theatre the place where the chorus danced: now the part of a theatre or concert-room in which the musicians are placed: the performers in an orchestra.—ns. Orchē′sis the art of dancing or rhythmical movement of the body; Orchesog′raphy the theory of dancing.—adjs. Or′chestral Orches′tric of or pertaining to an orchestra: performed in an orchestra.—v.t. Or′chestrāte to arrange for an orchestra.—ns. Orchestrā′tion the arrangement of music for an orchestra: instrumentation; Orches′trion a musical instrument of the barrel-organ kind designed to imitate an orchestra.

錄入:帕特里斯