Salieri's setting is a brooding work in the minor key, which rarely moves far from the original melodic material, its main interest lies in the deft and varied handling of orchestral colors.

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.

Performances designed for a competition setting usually include more esoteric music ( including but not limited to adaptations of modern orchestral pieces ).

Composer Carl Davis created a new orchestral score for the film in the 1980s ( quoting the theme associated with Melisande in Axt's original setting ), and it was restored and released on video in the late 1980s as part of the MGM and British television Thames Silents project.

The other major work, a setting of Walt Whitman poems with the title Songs of Farewell, was an even more alarming prospect to Fenby: " the complexity of thinking in so many strands, often all at once ; the problems of orchestral and vocal balance ; the wider area of possible misunderstandings ..." combined to leave Delius and his helper exhausted after each session of work — yet both these works were ready for performance in 1932.

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment ; they may be extracts from a ballet ( Nutcracker Suite ), incidental music to a play ( L ' Arlésienne Suites ), opera, film ( Lieutenant Kije Suite ) or video game ( Symphonic Suite the Another Story of Shining Force ), or they may be entirely original movements ( Holberg Suite, The Planets ).

He was later followed by Scott Watson, whose " Aesop's Fables " is a setting of four for narrator and orchestral accompaniment.

The only time wind bands were used in a concert setting comparable to that of a symphony orchestra was when transcriptions of orchestral or operatic pieces were arranged and performed, as there were comparatively few original concert works for a large wind ensemble.

Well aware that Wood was intent on setting up his new orchestral rock project ( which eventually became ELO ), he suggested that Wood could concentrate on performing with his new band while continuing to write songs for The Move.

In the Soviet Union the orchestral section initially confused listeners — many of whom were workers worn out by the October Revolution, yet listening patiently to the first performance — while they were very much at home with the setting of characteristic revolutionary rhetoric to music.

Like many harpsichord works from the 20th century, this piece was written for the ' revival ' contemporary harpsichord, which was prevalent at the time, rather than historic instruments from the 17th and 18th century-which indeed may need to be amplified to be heard at all in a large orchestral setting.

In an orchestral setting, suspended cymbals are most often used for rolled crescendos, or swells.

Film composer Danny Elfman has made great use of this technique, which needs to be performed in a more " transparent " orchestral setting to be heard.

During the late 90's Eddie Rayner decided to take the Split Enz songs to an orchestral setting.

Dedicated to the composer's mother, this one-movement work opens with an exposition section setting out the material for the work, the opening pages of which erupt with fireworks from the piano against a memorable, surging orchestral statement of the subject.

This choral – orchestral setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead is the best known of his large works.

: Each summer students are assigned, in advance, the complete set of orchestral parts for symphonic repertoire that are prepared to be worked on in a sectional setting.

It is now considered a part of the Roman Trilogy of symphonic poems along with Pini di Roma ( Pines of Rome ), and Fontane di Roma ( Fountains of Rome ), which are orchestral pieces set to a specific theme, tale, or setting.

This means that the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestral instruments, with the exception of the piccolo, which plays an octave higher.

However, in the short score there are occasional indications of instrumentation, and some of the orchestration may be surmised from the three movements of the orchestral draft, from which the probable forces include: four flutes, one piccolo, four oboes, four clarinets in B flat and A, with one doubling E flat, three bassoons, two contrabassoons, four horns, four trumpets, four trombones, a tuba, two sets of timpani, tam tam, a large muffled military drum, harp and strings ( first and second violins, violas, cellos and double basses ).

Brahms's orchestral variations are scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns ( 2 in E flat, 2 in B flat ), 2 trumpets, timpani, triangle, and the normal string section of first and second violins, violas, cellos and double basses.

The symphony is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling piccolo ), 3 oboes ( 3rd doubling cor anglais ), 3 clarinets ( 3rd doubling bass clarinet ), 3 bassoons ( 3rd doubling contrabassoon ), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, orchestral bass drum, tam-tam, xylophone, tubular bells, 2 harps ( preferably doubled ), celesta and strings.

This clarinet septet-the scoring included the rare octocontrabass and contrabass clarinets, as well as the E flat piccolo and alto clarinets-was played in a private run-through at Kneller Hall ( the Royal Military School of Music ) by an ad hoc ensemble led by Terry Busby in 1969, but subsequently ceased to have a separate existence once the orchestral transcription had been made.

The blend of orchestral colors is carefully planned and highlighted in the piece, which, in spite of Scholz's request, calls for one of the largest ensembles for any of his compositions: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets ( both doubling on B-flat and C clarinets ), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns ( two in C and two in E ), three C trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, and strings.

† Though concertante in nature, these are just orchestral works featuring extensive solos, with the player seated within the orchestra

After the war he appeared on hundreds of recordings including sessions with Duke Ellington, jazz pianists Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani and Claude Bolling, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, jazz violinist Stuff Smith, Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam, vibraphonist Gary Burton, pop singer Paul Simon, mandolin player David Grisman, classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, orchestral conductor André Previn, guitar player Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar player Joe Pass, cello player Yo Yo Ma, harmonica and jazz guitar player Toots Thielemans, jazz guitarist Henri Crolla, bassist Jon Burr and fiddler Mark O ' Connor.

In the early 20th century, pipe organs were installed in theaters to accompany films during the silent movie era, in municipal auditoria, where orchestral transcriptions were popular, and in the homes of the wealthy, equipped with player mechanisms.

Dale's film debut was a tiny role as a trombone player who thwarts orchestral conductor Kenneth Williams in the comedy Raising the Wind ( 1961 ).

Under the system, any orchestral player contracted for a concert was at liberty, if a better engagement became available, to send a deputy to a rehearsal or even to the concert.

David Mason ( 2 April 1926 – 29 April 2011 ) was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player.

Thanasis Polykandriotis, laïkó composer and classically trained bouzouki player, became renowned for his mixture of rebetiko and orchestral music ( as in his 1996 composition " Concert for Bouzouki and Orchestra No. 1 ").

He continued to do so throughout high school, adding church organist, orchestral player and radio staff pianist to his experience.

The album's sound is a mixture of sample-based tunes ( loops of Raymond Scott's " Powerhouse " on " Bus to Beelzebub ", Toots & the Maytals, Howlin ' Wolf, The Andrews Sisters, and The Roches on " Down To This ," and a loop of sampler player Mark De Gli Antoni's orchestral horns on " Screenwriters Blues " among others ), guitar based tunes like " Janine ," " Moon Sammy ," and " Supra Genius.

Barry Green is a U. S. orchestral and solo double bass player and teacher.

In this context, harpsichords were more usually employed as a continuo instrument, playing a harmonised bass part in nearly all orchestral music, the player often also directing the orchestra.

L. Macy ( Accessed 6 August 2006 ), < http :// www. grovemusic. com. turing. library. northwestern. edu ></ ref > Nearly all professional bassoonists will perform the piece at some stage in their career, and it is probably the most commonly requested piece in orchestral auditions – it is usually requested that the player perform the excerpts from concerto's first two movements in every audition.

In the orchestral percussion section one player plays the timpani, the other three play the cymbals, bass drum and triangle.

In December 1983, his younger brother, sitar player Ravi Shankar organized a four-day festival, Uday-Ustav Festival in New Delhi, marking the 60th anniversary his professional debut in 1923, highlighted by performances by his disciples, films, an exhibition and orchestral music composed and orchestrated by Ravi Shankar himself.

David Starobin has toured in the USA as a recitalist, chamber player and orchestral soloist performing at festivals including Marlboro, Aspen, Santa Fe Chamber, and Tanglewood, and with orchestras and ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, and the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Hebden was principally an orchestral player and as such his social status and his income would have been low.

Through the group, Fennell redefined wind ensemble to refer to a specific kind of wind band with only one player per part, and focusing on original wind music rather than orchestral transcriptions.

As a student at Rutgers University, she toured Europe as a choir soloist and an orchestral guitar player.

Unlike most players of the instrument, Nigro's career is primarily as a solo recitalist and recording artist rather than an orchestral player.

These are compliled into lists by orchestras when posting a vacancy for the performer to play in order to obtain a job as an orchestral flute player.