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  2. File:Diagram Modern symphony orchestra-en.svg - Wikipedia

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  3. Modern Symphony Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Symphony Orchestra was founded by Arthur Dennington, who led several smaller orchestral amateur ensembles in Northern London at that time and combined them in 1931 into a symphony orchestra. The name Modern Symphony Orchestra derived from the fact that the orchestra wanted to play "modern" music by contemporary and little known ...

  4. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Modern symphony orchestra layout. Aerophones – Instruments that produce sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.

  5. Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...

  6. String section - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing with a jazz group. The string sections are at the front of the orchestra, arrayed in a semicircle around the conductor's podium. The string section of an orchestra is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and ...

  7. Double bass - Wikipedia

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    The double bass (/ ˈ d ʌ b əl b eɪ s /), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone [1] in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). [2]

  8. Symphony - Wikipedia

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    The Symphony, Volume II: Elgar to the Present Day. Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-140-20773-6. Stainer, John, and Francis W Galpin. 1914. "Wind Instruments – Sumponyah; Sampunia; Sumphonia; Symphonia". In The Music of the Bible, with Some Account of the Development of Modern Musical Instruments from Ancient Types, new edition ...

  9. Woodwind section - Wikipedia

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    The principal flutist is traditionally the section leader. The evolution of this section can be seen over Mozart's Symphonies. When emulating the classical style, Sergei Prokofiev used the above combination in his First Symphony. The woodwind section of the orchestra frequently also includes one or more of the following, in typical score order: