sinfonia
Noun
Meaning
A symphony.
A piece or music serving as an overture, interlude or ritornello.
A small symphony orchestra.
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Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
In Italian opera after about 1800, the "overture" became known as the sinfonia.
Bertold Hummel wrote a Sinfonia piccola citation for eight double basses.
Like its counterpart, it, too, is preceded by an instrumental sinfonia and contains a dedication to Ferdinand III.
The song "On aika soittaa sinfonia" ("It's time to play a symphony") on the Finnish rock musician Tuomari Nurmio 's critically acclaimed 1982 album Punainen Planeetta ("The Red Planet") is inspired by the poem.
Fisher also notes the term Sinfonia avanti l'opera (literally, the "symphony before the opera") was "an early term for a sinfonia used to begin an opera, that is, as an overture as opposed to one serving to begin a later section of the work".