Laurence Elliot Libin
Contributor
LOCATION: United States
Former Frederick P. Rose Curator of Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Author of American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Symphony, a lengthy form of musical composition for orchestra, normally consisting of several large sections, or movements, at least one of which usually employs sonata form (also called first-movement form). Symphonies in this sense began to be composed during the so-called Classical period in…
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