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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work typically consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often three or four, with…

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Etymology and origins

Baroque era

Galant and classical eras

Romantic era

Late-Romantic, Modernist and Postmodernist eras

Symphonies for concert band

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related to Further reading · 170
Symphony → Age, Ancient Types, Andrew, Antony, Ashgate, Ballantine, Baltimore, Bathia Churgin, Beauty, Beethoven, Berlioz, Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise, Bible, Bloomington, Boston, Brahms, Brian Hart, British Symphonism, Brown, Bruckner
related to Sources · 150
Symphony → Accessed, Adriano Banchieri, After, AMS Press, Analysis, Anon, Applied Forms, Augener, Augener's Edition, Battisti, Beethoven, Before, Berkeley, Berlioz, Bloomington, Boston, Bowman, Bradford Robinson, Brown, Building
related to Symphonies for concert band · 52
Symphony → After, Alan Hovhaness's Symphonies No, Alfred Reed's, Although, American Bandmasters Association's Sousa/Ostwald, Ani, Anton Reicha, Ararat, B-flat, Band, Circus Maximus, Commemoration' Symphony, David Maslanka, Denis Levaillant's PachaMama Symphony, Grande, Grands Hommes, Hector Berlioz, Illustrés, James, Johan
related to Galant and classical eras · 19
Symphony → At, Bonds, Empire, Europe, In Vienna, It, Joseph Haydn, LaRue, Morzin, Music, Musicians, Occasionally, Since, The, The New Grove Dictionary, Vienna, Walsh, Wilson, Wilson's
related to Romantic era · 17
Symphony → At, Beethoven, Brahms, Classical, Eighth Symphony, Eroica, Haydn, His, His Symphony No, Mahler, Mozart, Ninth, Of, Romantic, Schubert, The Unfinished, Third Symphony
related to Other modern usages of "symphony" · 16
Symphony → Additionally, Boston Symphony Orchestra, British English, English, For, Houston Symphony, In, London Symphony Orchestra, Louis Symphony, Miami's New World Symphony, OED, St, The, These, Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
related to Late-Romantic, Modernist and Postmodernist eras · 15
Symphony → Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No, Carl Nielsen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, His Third Symphony, Jean Sibelius' Symphony No, Op, Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saint Vartan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Some, The, The Eighth Symphony, Thousand, Towards
related to Etymology and origins · 11
Symphony → England, French, Greek, In, In German, Isidore, Latin, Middle Ages, Seville, Symphonie, The
related to External links · 10
Symphony → Archived, August, Chronology, Encyclopædia Britannica, Gann, Interactive Guide, Kyle, List, Thanh-Tâm Lê, Vol
related to Baroque era · 8
Symphony → Baroque, However, In, It, Italian, The, To, When

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Symphonyis aextended musical composition in Western classical music0.90text
quartetsinstance ofMozart and their contemporaries restricted their use of the four-movement form to orchestral or multi-instrument chamber music0.80text
though since Beethoven solo sonatas are as often written in four as in three movements.The composition of early symphonies was centred on Milaninstance ofMozart and their contemporaries restricted their use of the four-movement form to orchestral or multi-instrument chamber music0.80text
Viennainstance ofMozart and their contemporaries restricted their use of the four-movement form to orchestral or multi-instrument chamber music0.80text
and Mannheiminstance ofMozart and their contemporaries restricted their use of the four-movement form to orchestral or multi-instrument chamber music0.80text
Brahmsinstance ofits transition from the emotionally stormy C minor opening movement to a triumphant major-key finale provided a model adopted by later symphonists0.80text
Mahlerinstance ofits transition from the emotionally stormy C minor opening movement to a triumphant major-key finale provided a model adopted by later symphonists0.80text
Symphonyrelated to Baroque eraIn0.60section
Symphonyrelated to Baroque eraBaroque0.60section
Symphonyrelated to Baroque eraThe0.60section
Symphonyrelated to Baroque eraItalian0.60section
Symphonyrelated to Baroque eraIt0.60section

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