A report on Orchestra and Choir

The Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse in public performance at the Grain Hall of Toulouse

Evensong rehearsal in the quire of York Minster, showing carved choirstalls

Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the 2 March 1916 American premiere of Mahler's 8th Symphony

Egyptian Alexandria Jewish choir of Rabbin Moshe Cohen at Samuel Menashe synagogue, Alexandria, Egypt

The boychoir Cantores Minores in the Helsinki Cathedral in 2013

Apo Hsu, using a baton, conducts the NTNU Symphony Orchestra in Taipei, Republic of China

Lambrook School choir in the 1960s, a typical boys' school choir of the time

Relief, now in Athens, showing Dionysus with actresses (possibly from The Bacchae) carrying masks and drums

Church singing, Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatensis (14th century)

Luca della Robbia's Cantoria, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

Choirs may sing without instrumental accompaniment, with the accompaniment of a piano or pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra.

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The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the "Eroica" (four horns has since become standard); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion — plus chorus and vocal soloists — in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of symphony might be expanded.

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Conducting

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Giuseppe Verdi conducting his opera Aida in 1881

Leonard Bernstein conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1985

Conductor's score and batons on a lit, extra-large conductor's music stand

A conductor, Gerald Wilson, leads a jazz big band

A military conductor leads the U.S. Navy band during Memorial Day ceremonies held at Arlington National Cemetery.

David Baker, a music educator, composer and conductor, (far left) leads the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra during the NEA Jazz Masters awards ceremony and concert in 2008.

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra photographed in Houston, Texas, January 1921

Musical ensemble

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Group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestral is an example of a large classical musical ensemble.

Pori Worker's Society Brass Band in the 1920s in Pori, Finland

The Kneisel String Quartet, led by Franz Kneisel, is an example of chamber music. This American ensemble debuted Dvořák's American Quartet, opus 96

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Hall

Suzi Quatro is a singer, bassist and bandleader. When she launched her career in 1973, she was one of the few prominent women instrumentalists and bandleaders in rock music

Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra.

Other music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as choirs and doo wop groups.

Rehearsal

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Activity in the performing arts that occurs as preparation for a performance in music, theatre, dance and related arts, such as opera, musical theatre and film production.

Russian Ground Forces Guards during a dress rehearsal for a military parade in Alabino, Moscow Oblast.

Laura Liguori playing Lilya Brik during a production rehearsal of Mayakovsky and Stalin.

Jack Benny at a rehearsal with members of the California Junior Symphony Orchestra, 1959

Steamcog band members at a rehearsal in September 2019.

For example, when a musician is preparing a piano concerto in their music studio, this is called practising, but when they practice it with an orchestra, this is called a rehearsal.

On the other end of the spectrum, a rehearsal can be held for a very large orchestra with over 100 performers and a choir.

Hymn-style arrangement of "Adeste Fideles" in standard two-staff format (bass staff and treble staff) for mixed voices[[File:Adeste Fideles sheet music sample.mid]]

Sheet music

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Handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

Tibetan musical score from the 19th century

Title page for the first-edition vocal score for Hector Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict

Page from the autograph score of Fugue No. 17 in A major from J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier

Sheet music for the song "Oregon, My Oregon"

First page of the full score for Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm for choir, orchestra and organ

An excerpt of a piano-vocal score for César Cui's opera William Ratcliff.

The lead sheet for the song "Trifle in Pyjamas" shows only the melody and chord symbols. To play this song, a jazz band's rhythm section musicians would improvise chord voicings and a bassline using the chord symbols. The lead instruments, such as sax or trumpet, would improvise ornaments to make the melody more interesting, and then improvise a solo part.

The original stone at Delphi containing the second of the two Delphic Hymns to Apollo. The music notation is the line of occasional symbols above the main, uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.

Example of 16th century sheet music and music notation. Excerpt from the manuscript "Muziek voor 4 korige diatonische cister".

Buildings of New York City's Tin Pan Alley music publishing district in 1910.

The term score can also refer to theatre music, orchestral music or songs written for a play, musical, opera or ballet, or to music or songs written for a television programme or film; for the last of these, see Film score.

Classical musicians playing orchestral works, chamber music, sonatas and singing choral works ordinarily have the sheet music in front of them on a music stand when performing (or held in front of them in a music folder, in the case of a choir), with the exception of solo instrumental performances of solo pieces, concertos, or solo vocal pieces (art song, opera arias, etc.), where memorization is expected.