Collocations withensemble

These are words often used in combination withensemble.

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brass ensemble
Sheldon (1991) presented university students with a half-minute excerpt of a piece arranged for brass ensemble that featured a constant or changing tempo.
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chamber ensemble
The score requires ten players, divided into part jazz ensemble (saxophone, trombone, drums bass and piano), part classical chamber ensemble (clarinet and strings).
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choral ensemble
A strong core would have provided stability in an otherwise flexible choral ensemble, the additional members of which changed from opera to opera.
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entire ensemble
Yet at the expected climactic moment of the final phrase, the entire ensemble suddenly retreats, leaving only the slide guitar.
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full ensemble
The greatest of these was that it was a full ensemble company, in which all major decisions were arrived at by a company meeting.
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instrumental ensemble
On certain occasions the music is accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble: such is the case with most of the chants on the present disc.
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jazz ensemble
The score requires ten players, divided into part jazz ensemble (saxophone, trombone, drums bass and piano), part classical chamber ensemble (clarinet and strings).
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large ensemble
Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ensemble of climate change simulations.
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musical ensemble
I was interested in exploring whether the sonic environment would remain homogenous even though, unlike a musical ensemble, the control inputs varied randomly and independently of each other.
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percussion ensemble
Music electives include symphonic band, lab band, jazz ensemble, percussion ensemble, wind ensemble, music appreciation, and choir.
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small ensemble
Our goal is clearly to design instruments that can be played in a small ensemble with acoustic instruments, be they electrified or not.
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string ensemble
Less often, string quartets are written for other combinations of the standard string ensemble.
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vocal ensemble
The company's fluent acting, comic ingenuity, clarity of diction, unaffected style of vocal ensemble and communicative warmth have repeatedly been praised.
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wind ensemble
The dramatic progress is provided by alternating recitatives and choruses, punctuated by brief appearances of a small wind ensemble (or banda) that hail the arrival of the monarch.
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