orchestral works
Music for ensembles
Orchestral works are musical compositions written for an orchestra—a large ensemble of string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments.
The term encompasses symphonies, concertos, overtures, and tone poems: The concert featured orchestral works by Beethoven and Brahms.
Distinguished from chamber music, which uses smaller groups, and choral works, which feature voices.
- suiteConnected hotel rooms
- overtureIntroductory orchestral piece
- concertoSolo-and-orchestra composition
- symphonyExtended composition for orchestra
- film scoreMusic composed for cinema
ceremonial music · fugue · preludes · incidental music · cantata · tone poem · conductor · guest conductor · philharmonic · ballet score · opus · serenade · symphonic poem · string section · brass section · movement · Romanticism · live performance
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
- instrumentalsguitar solo, guitar solos, drum solo, piano solos, drum solos
- music archivesmanuscripts, electronic music, pop music, sheet music, phonograph records
- Late RomanticismMahler, Brahms, Wagner, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky
- violinviolin, bowing, violin bow, strings, fingerboard
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad
orchestral workschamber music
Small-group classical compositions
string quartets · piano sonatas · duets · trios · piano trios
orchestral workschoral works
Music for grouped singers
vocal music · lieder · madrigals · electronic music · opera
orchestral worksjazz improvisation
Spontaneous musical composition during performance