Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A string-band.
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Examples
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Finally the snobbish string-orchestra from Boston, which played only the most exclusive music, began to tune up, and at length, after much mysterious wigwagging of signals to play, it played a hunting-piece.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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D.W. Hamilton_ is the very popular leader of a string-orchestra.
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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Henry Purcell's extraordinary G-minor Chacony, in Benjamin Britten's string-orchestra transcription, began the proceedings, with Bicket leading from the harpsichord.
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Henry Purcell's extraordinary G-minor Chacony, in Benjamin Britten's string-orchestra transcription, began the proceedings, with Bicket leading from the harpsichord.
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Henry Purcell's extraordinary G-minor Chacony, in Benjamin Britten's string-orchestra transcription, began the proceedings, with Bicket leading from the harpsichord.
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The pairing was the string-orchestra version of Verklärte Nacht with the fifth concerto, the Emperor, and both performances were charged with a special, insistent urgency.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Even before that, in the string-orchestra era in which Mozart composed, the dark viola had trouble being heard over the bright violins.
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