The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in a string orchestra, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra.

Bassists may apply more rosin in works for large orchestra ( e. g., Brahms symphonies ) than for delicate chamber works.

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus.

* Symphonie-Divertissement for bassoon, tenor trombone, double bass and chamber orchestra ( c. 1934, unfinished )

A small orchestra with fifteen to thirty members ( violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and several woodwind or brass instruments ) is called a chamber orchestra In the American education system, sitting groups are known as wind ensembles or concert bands ( to differentiate from marching bands ).

A sinfonietta usually denotes a somewhat smaller orchestra ( though still not a chamber orchestra ).

The name " motet " was preserved in Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to two distinct, and very different, genres: petits motets, sacred choral or chamber compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo ; and grands motets, which included massed choirs and instruments up to and including a full orchestra.

A smaller-sized orchestra for this time period ( of about fifty musicians or fewer ) is called a chamber orchestra.

A leading chamber orchestra might employ as many as fifty musicians ; some are much smaller than that.

* Slavko Osterc Ensemble, a Slovenian chamber orchestra

* Concertino in C minor for flute and chamber orchestra ( 1819 )

Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, film ( e. g. Silent Running, and animated adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen ), and television.

Some common group settings include music for Full Orchestra ( consisting of just about every instrument group ), Wind Ensemble ( or Concert Band, which consists of larger sections and greater diversity of wind, brass and percussion instruments than are usually found in the orchestra ), or a chamber group ( a small number of instruments, but at least two ).

* British — Christie, Michael: " Pierrot " ( 1998 ; voice and small ensemble ; text by John Drinkwater above under # Poetry | Poetry ); St. Johanser, Joe: " Pierrot " ( 2003 ; from song-cycle Pierrot Alone ; voice and chamber orchestra ; text by John Drinkwater above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

* Duodecimet, chamber orchestra

" The small-scale radio context meant that it was originally scored for a small chamber orchestra.

City Recital Hall is dedicated mainly to chamber music and chamber orchestra concerts, featuring many famous international artists as well as concert series by fine local groups such as the renowned Australian Chamber Orchestra and Sydney's foremost Baroque orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

The story has been adapted to other media including film, opera, ballet, a Broadway musical ( 1979's Comin ' Uptown, which featured an all African-American cast ), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on ' A Christmas Carol.

It consists of a series of pipes and a pressure-measuring chamber which record the rise and fall of the water surface.

The recorder consists of a float in a sealed chamber partially filled with water.

The most common is the pound lock, which consists of a chamber within which the water level can be raised or lowered connecting either two pieces of canal at a different level or the canal with a river or the sea.

A gas turbine is a rotary machine similar in principle to a steam turbine and it consists of three main components: a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.

A gas turbine is a rotary machine somewhat similar in principle to a steam turbine and it consists of three main components: a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.

This kiln usually consists of one long firing chamber, pierced with smaller stacking ports on one side, with a firebox at one end and a flue at the other.

A smoking pipe that is specifically made to smoke tobacco typically consists of a chamber ( the bowl ) for the combustion of material and a thin stem ( shank ) ending in a mouthpiece ( the bit ).

The Romulan government consists of several parts: the Romulan Senate, the main governing and legislative body in a large chamber on Romulus.

The legislature is the parliament, which consists of the president as its head and a single chamber whose members are elected by popular vote.

A simple calorimeter just consists of a thermometer attached to a metal container full of water suspended above a combustion chamber.

The inner ear in these species consists of a single vestibular chamber, although in lampreys, this is associated with a series of sacs lined by cilia.

A modern Cartridge ( firearms ) | cartridge consists of the following: 1. the bullet, which serves as the projectile ; 2. the casing ( ammunition ) | case, which holds all parts together ; 3. the propellant, for example gunpowder or cordite ; 4. the rim, which provides the extractor on the firearm a place to grip the casing to remove it from the chamber once fired ; 5. the percussion cap | primer, which ignites the propellant.

The legislative branch consists of a bicameral Legislative Assembly made up of a Senate upper chamber and a House of Representatives lower chamber.

The device broadly consists of a photon emitter containing a caesium light emitter or lamp, an absorption chamber containing caesium vapor, a " buffer gas " through which the emitted photons pass and a photon detector, arranged in that order.

The new, unified chamber consists of over 155 local businesses.

The fogou of Carn Euny is in particularly good condition and consists of a 20 m long corridor, with a side passage that leads to a round stone chamber with a collapsed roof, and a small tunnel which may be a second entrance.

Founded in 1895, each season currently consists of more than 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the United Kingdom on the last night, and associated educational and children's events.

It consists of an upper chamber in which sedimentation takes place, from which collected solids slide down inclined bottom slopes to an entrance into a lower chamber in which the sludge is collected and digested.

This chamber consists of twenty-six marble sepulchers containing the remains of the kings and queens regnant ( the only queen regnant since Philip II being Isabella II ), of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties from Charles I to the present, except for Philip V and Ferdinand VI.

A conference committee is appointed when the two chambers cannot agree on the same wording of a proposal, and consists of a small number of legislators from each chamber.

Thus, a unicameral parliament or unicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of one chamber or house.

Much of the musical repertoire written for harpsichord and organ from the period circa 1400 – 1800 can be played on the clavichord ; however, it does not have enough ( unamplified ) volume to participate in chamber music, with the possible exception of providing accompaniment to a soft baroque flute, recorder, or single singer.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

Jeffrey Lewis composed Epitaphium — Children of the Sun for narrator, chamber choir, piano, flute, clarinet and percussion.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Brown, Earle: Tracking Pierrot ( 1992 ; chamber ensemble ); Wharton, Geoffry ( works mainly in Germany ): ‘’ Five Pierrot Tangos ’’ ( n. d .; violin / viola, flute, piano / synthesizer, cello, clarinet, and voice ).

Präparierter Text 1 is adapted from the second movement of Brahms ' Symphony No. 1, and is for violin and magnetic tape ; Präparierter Text 2 is adapted from the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( No. 41 ), and is for flute, trumpet, timpani, violin, cello and double bass ; Präparierter Text 3 is adapted from the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and is for cymbal, bass drum and magnetic tape ; and Präparierter Text 4 is adapted from the Ricercar a 6 from Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering and is for chamber orchestra ( a version for full orchestra followed in 1970 ).

* The Complete Works of the Great Flutist – a five CD box set of restored and remastered recordings including his own and Andersen studies, flute solos and chamber music.

His more important works include his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ( 1990 – 96, after Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin ), the orchestral pieces Schwankungen am Rand ( 1974 – 75, for eight brass, two electric guitars, two pianos, four thunder sheets, and 34 strings ), Accanto ( 1975 – 76, for clarinet, large orchestra and tape ) and NUN ( 1997 – 99, for flute, trombone, male chorus, and large orchestra ), the ensemble works Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung ) ( 1982 – 84, for three ad hoc players and 14 players ) and "... zwei Gefühle ...", Musik mit Leonardo ( 1992, ( later incorporated in opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ), after Leonardo da Vinci, for two speakers and 22 players ) and three string quartets ( Gran Torso, 1971, revised 1976, 1988 ; Reigen seliger Geister, 1989 ; Grido, 2001 ), as well as other orchestral, ensemble and chamber works and six piano pieces.

Two chamber music concerts with Salome Kammer and members of the ensemble musikFabrik showed among others temA for flute, mezzosoprano and piano, his string trio and Allegro sostenuto for clarinet, violoncello and piano.

Additionally, Corigliano has written concerti for clarinet, flute, violin, oboe, and piano ; film scores ; various chamber and solo instrument works, and the opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, which enjoyed a success at the premiere.

This concerto makes use of a popular chamber music ensemble of the time ( flute, violin, and harpsichord ), which Bach used on their own for the middle movement.

The opera requires a cast of 2 female, 1 male, and 1 male child in speaking roles ( for the Wilson production ); a 16 person SATB chamber chorus with an outstanding soprano soloist and a smaller tenor solo part ; 3 reed players: flute ( doubling piccolo and bass clarinet ), soprano saxophone ( doubling flute ), tenor saxophone ( doubling alto saxophone ); solo violin, and 2 synthesizers / electronic organs.

* The Watermelon Cargo, microtonal chamber opera for six singers, three synthesizers, flute, fretless bass, and drummer ( 2002-3 )

* Cinderella's Bad Magic, microtonal chamber opera for six singers, three synthesizers, flute, and fretless bass ( 2001-2 )

The Native American flute is the only flute in the world constructed with two air chambers-there is a wall inside the flute between the top ( slow ) air chamber and the bottom chamber which has the whistle and finger holes.

The top chamber also serves as a secondary resonator, which gives the flute its distinctive sound.

The " traditional " Native American flute was constructed using bread based on the body-the length of the flute would be the distance from armpit to wrist, the length of the top air chamber would be one fist-width, the distance from the whistle to the first hole also a fist-width, the distance between holes would be one thumb-width, and the distance from the last hole to the end would generally be one fist-width.