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Recent Examples of orchestral
Rachel Fuller’s orchestral version of The Who album, recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is the backdrop for this production, which is costumed by British fashion house Paul Smith.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Finest City Brass & Percussion, a symphonic brass ensemble of 25-30 musicians, will perform new music for brass instruments and orchestral music adapted for large brass ensembles.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
The band’s subsequent project, 1966’s Days of Future Passed, was one of the first instances of a concept album — tracking 24 hours of an everyman’s life — and an early touchstone of prog rock with its lush orchestral sound.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Lodge was a pivotal force behind the group’s groundbreaking fusion of orchestral rock and psychedelia.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Finest City Brass & Percussion, a symphonic brass ensemble of 25-30 musicians, will perform new music for brass instruments and orchestral music adapted for large brass ensembles.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
The band’s subsequent project, 1966’s Days of Future Passed, was one of the first instances of a concept album — tracking 24 hours of an everyman’s life — and an early touchstone of prog rock with its lush orchestral sound.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Lodge was a pivotal force behind the group’s groundbreaking fusion of orchestral rock and psychedelia.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
Adjective
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Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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The abrupt tonal shift left some MLB viewers confused, sparking an online conversation.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Talamasca does feel different from Mayfair and Interview, but there are still genre and tonal similarities.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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On April 12, 1962, Black men, women, and children packed into Philadelphia’s Times Auditorium and milled about to the low, rhythmic beating of African drums until the lights dimmed and Moore took the stage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Communication, at its best, has always been aural, emotional, rhythmic and alive, not just letters on a screen.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 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
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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
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Music, instrumental or lyrical, should hover just around normal conversational levels (around 60 to 70 decibels, according to the Hearing Health Foundation).—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The result is short, lyrical narratives that aim to be enjoyable, uplifting, and emotionally instructive.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.—
Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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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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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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