sinfonietta
Americannoun
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a short symphony.
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a small symphony orchestra, often composed solely of stringed instruments.
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a symphony for fewer than the usual number of instruments.
noun
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a short or light symphony
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(capital when part of name) a small symphony orchestra
Etymology
Origin of sinfonietta
1920–25; < Italian; diminutive of sinfonia sinfonia
Example Sentences
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According to the report, three of the 10 orchestras that performed the highest proportion of works composed by women were in the United States: the American Composers Orchestra in New York, the Chicago Sinfonietta and National Philharmonic in North Bethesda, Md. But at the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, two of America’s top orchestras, only about 10 percent of the music programmed was composed by women.
From New York Times
It’s a vigorous work of mid-20th-century Neo-Classicism, and has fine company on the album in another: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1, with a wrenching slow movement and a driving finale.
From New York Times
Tony Award-winner Macy Schmidt, the first woman of color orchestrator in Broadway history, will be conducting the Barbie Land Sinfonietta, an all-women and majority women-of-color orchestra.
From Seattle Times
The audience will likely be a frothy sea of pink as the Barbie Land Sinfonietta takes the stage — an all-women, mostly women-of-color orchestra conducted by Tony Award winner Macy Schmidt.
From Los Angeles Times
North performs concertos by Mozart and Tchaikovsky in concert with Northwest Sinfonietta, conducted by Christophe Chagnard; 3 p.m.
From Seattle Times
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