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Orchestra
Orchestra Or"ches*tra, n. [L. orchestra, Gr. ?, orig., the
place for the chorus of dancers, from ? to dance: cf. F.
orchestre.]
1. 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.
2. The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of
instrumental musicians.
3. (Mus.)
(a) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing
in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public
amusement.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
4. (Mus.) The instruments employed by a full band,
collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed
instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
orchestra circleParquet circle Parquet circle
That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the
rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called
also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre. Orchestral
Orchestral Or"ches*tral, a.
Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed
in or by, an orchestra.
OrchestrationOrchestration Or`ches*tra"tion, n. (Mus.)
The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral
treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation. OrchestreOrchestre Or"ches*tre, n. [F.]
See Orchestra. Orchestric
Orchestric Or*ches"tric, a.
Orchestral.
Orchestrion
Orchestrion Or*ches"tri*on, n.
A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral
instruments.
Meaning of Hestr from wikipedia
- instance, Old
Norse poets might use jór "steed"
instead of the
prosaic hestr "horse". In the
modern sense,
heiti are
distinguished from
kennings in that...
- göltinn ok sagði, at hann mátti
renna loft ok lög nótt ok dag
meira en
hverr hestr ok
aldri varð svá
myrkt af nótt eða í myrkheimum, at eigi væri ærit ljós...
- Blóðughófi hét
hestr, er bera kváðu öflgan Atriða, Gísl ok Falhófnir, Glær ok Skeiðbrimir, þar var ok
Gyllis getit. Blódughófi
hight a
horse That they...
- -r
ending from Old
Norse to ease pronunciation. This made
terms such as
hestr change to hester. The -r
disappeared from the
language altogether, and so...
- á gota sínum,
skildi of fatlaðr,
skati Mæringa. Þat sǫgum tolfta, hvar
hestr sé
Gunnar etu véttvangi á,
konungar tveir tigir svát á liggja. Þat sǫgum...
-
distinctively poetic lexemes; the
normal word for "horse" in Old
Norse prose is
hestr. The
skalds also emplo****
complex kennings in
which the determinant, or...
- kennings. Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld thus uses the
kenning "Leikn's horse" (
hestr Leiknar) for a wolf (Óláfsdrápa, 6) and Hallvarðr háreksblesi
calls the...
-
essentially poetic synonyms or
alternate words. For example, the
simple hestr, "horse",
might be
replaced by jór, "steed". In general, the
parts of the...
- or meadow. The name
Hesket itself derives from the old
Norse for
horse ('
hestr') and road or race
course ('skeid'). In 1822, a
Viking cairn was discovered...
- átti Gísl, níundi Falhófnir, tíundi Gulltoppr,
ellifti Léttfeti.
Baldrs hestr var
brenndr með
honum The
third root of the Ash
stands in heaven; and under...
