symphony
IPA: sˈɪmfʌni
noun
- An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
- (music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
- Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
- (US, informal) A symphony orchestra.
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Examples of "symphony" in Sentences
- I don't know if the mother I saw at the symphony is a failure.
- Fingers, a composer facing writer's block when it comes to his symphony, is despondent.
- The symphony is undoubtedly a major orchestral work from a composer who is not known for them.
- Still, the symphony is informed by his predecessors and Conlon made a best case argument for its very classical style.
- The symphony is often very quiet but still filled with the rhythmic and spiritual elements one has come to expect from Pärt.
- It's a race, not only because the symphony is unfinished yet schedule to debut in less than a month, but because Reuben is going deaf.
- Even the most adventurous Mozart symphony is still at least as structurally formulaic as an Indiana Jones movie, and often much more so.
- Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it.
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