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string orchestra

British

noun

an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses

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Santa Monica High School’s Chamber Orchestra brought a lovely, lyric sheen to Mahler’s string orchestra arrangement of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Guests then walked through a live string orchestra and a tableau of performers dressed as woodland creatures — in tunics and tights — frolicking in the forest.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

Konopka divided the ensemble into a double string orchestra and had them seated antiphonally on the stage.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

We enter a symphonic troposphere where clouds are clotted harmonies, where turbulence is a string orchestra plucking and strumming violins and violas like guitars.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

It sounded like he was waiting for a full string orchestra to come in, something out of The Sound of Music.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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