chamber orchestra

noun

: a small orchestra usually with one player for each part

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The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall. —

Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. —

Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 The piece for chamber orchestra and electronic sounds appears on Miranda’s upcoming new album, also called Qubism. —

Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 The piece includes sixteen vocalists, a sixteen-piece chamber orchestra, and two video installations, all of which is meant to emphasize our interdependence. —

The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chamber orchestra

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chamber orchestra was in 1880

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