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Recent Examples of orchestral
Higher ceiling panels will allow orchestral sound more room to disperse, rather than clotting onstage.
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
And on both Saturday and Sunday, there’s a Symphony of the Redwoods Spring Concert with water themes tying together orchestral masterpieces at the Cotton Auditorium (Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.; $15-$30, symphonyoftheredwoods.org).
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Winter is more concerned with the serious musician than the scatological comedian, concentrating on the early work with the Mothers of Invention and late-period rehearsals and concerts of the orchestral music Zappa wrote his whole life.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
And on both Saturday and Sunday, there’s a Symphony of the Redwoods Spring Concert with water themes tying together orchestral masterpieces at the Cotton Auditorium (Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.; $15-$30, symphonyoftheredwoods.org).
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Winter is more concerned with the serious musician than the scatological comedian, concentrating on the early work with the Mothers of Invention and late-period rehearsals and concerts of the orchestral music Zappa wrote his whole life.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
Adjective
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They are imaginatively crafted, showing particular invention in their harmonic writing.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 June 2024
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There are no weak links here, only actors walking a tonal high wire with equal aplomb.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Duchess of Sussex paired the sweater with linen blend pleated pants courtesy of Zara, continuing the muted tonal motif.—
WWD Staff,
WWD,
5 Mar. 2025
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Soon enough, others began to join her – three dozen people dancing in a strange, feverish and rhythmic pattern.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Options typically include light, medium, strong, and pulsatile (rhythmic).—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
29 Jan. 2025
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Kosky, more than most directors, is sensitive to its polyphonic structure in his staging, which moves around, repeats and trims material throughout to make the show move briskly and with a light hand, allowing the subtext its slithering grace.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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There are lyrical allusions to morphine and a pretty, romantic melody.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
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Though no matter its lyrical content, the project’s cohesive nature stems from the fact that every track is a dance anthem of sorts.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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