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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of ... "By tradition the first violin is the leader" but "this does not mean a ...
A chamber choir is a small or medium-sized choir of roughly 8 to 40 singers (occasionally called "chamber singers"), typically singing classical or religious music in a concert setting. [1] This is distinct from, for example, a church choir, which sings in religious services, or choirs specializing in popular music such as a barbershop chorus.
The Kneisel String Quartet, led by Franz Kneisel, is an example of chamber music. This American ensemble debuted Dvořák's American Quartet, Opus 96 (photographed c. 1891.) An Iranian musical ensemble, painted by Kamal-ol-molk in 1886. In Western classical music, smaller ensembles are called chamber music ensembles.
Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. [1] It is influenced aesthetically by the small ensembles of chamber music in musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of Western music, [2] music as well as non-Western music or culture.
The term sonata da camera was originally used in its literal meaning of "chamber music", but later came to be used figuratively to contrast this genre of composition with the sonata da chiesa, which literally meant "church music", but generally comprised a suite of four movements with tempos following a largo–allegro–largo–allegro pattern.
Chamber pop (also called baroque pop [7] [8] and sometimes conflated with orchestral pop or symphonic pop [1]) is a music genre that combines rock music [1] with the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s, with an emphasis on melody and texture.
Camerata Klaipėda, a Lithuanian chamber orchestra Camerata Mediolanense , an ensemble of musicians established in Milano, Italy Camerata Mediterranea , a French nonprofit organization and an international, intercultural institute of musical exchanges
Camerata (music), a small chamber orchestra or choir; Camerata Bariloche, an Argentine chamber music ensemble founded in 1977; Florentine Camerata, an Italian musical association of the late sixteenth century