{i} musical composition written for a symphony orchestra; symphony orchestra; performance by a symphony orchestra; harmonious arrangement of sounds or other elements
A kind of instrumental genre, performed by a full orchestra Symphonies developed during the classical era, and were among the most important genres in the romantic era as well Usually, symphonies have four movements, although some symphonies have a different number of movements
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"
Most of the time when you go to a concert, what you here is a symphony It's a music that everyone gets to play gother String, brass, wind, and percussion, of course the conductor It's a music created w/ all the souds you have on stage ShowMeSome: Tacikovsky Symphony no 4 Finale.PictorialEx
(1) a piece of music for a large body of instruments, usually consisting of four different movements in a prescribed form (2) An orchestra that plays symphonies
a work for orchestra usually consisting of three or, more commonly, four separate movements in contrasting tempos The opening movement is almost always fast and in sonata-allegro form
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
A symphony is a piece of music written to be played by an orchestra. Symphonies are usually made up of four separate sections called movements. Long musical composition for orchestra, usually in several movements. The term (meaning "sounding together") came to be the standard name for instrumental episodes, and especially overtures, in early Italian opera. The late-17th-century Neapolitan opera overture, or sinfonia, as established especially by Alessandro Scarlatti 1780, had three movements, their tempos being fast-slow-fast. Soon such overtures began to be performed by themselves in concert settings, like another forerunner of the symphony, the concerto grosso. The two merged in the early 18th century in the symphonies of Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700/01-75). In 1750 German and Viennese composers began to add a minuet movement. Joseph Haydn, the "father of the symphony," wrote more than 100 symphonies of remarkable originality, intensity, and brilliance in the years 1755-95; since Haydn, the symphony has been regarded as the most important orchestral genre. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote about 35 original symphonies. Ludwig van Beethoven's nine symphonies endowed the genre with enormous weight and ambition. Later symphonists include Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvoák, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Gustav Mahler; their 20th-century successors include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jean Sibelius, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Witold Lutosawski