What are the characteristics of symphony in music?

Symphony generally refers to the acoustic works and forms played by large orchestras, including symphonies, symphonic suites, symphonic poems and other genres. The first is the symphony. It has a wide range of serious contents, a wide variety of musical instruments, full and brilliant voices and rich expressions. Haydn wrote the most symphonies in the history of music. He wrote 104 symphonies in his life, such as Farewell and Surprise, and was known as the "father of symphonies". Other famous symphonies include Beethoven's Symphony No.3 (Hero), Symphony No.5 (Destiny), Symphony No.6 (Pastoral) and Symphony No.9 (Chorus). Symphonies by Schubert, Tchaikovsky and dvorak. Second, the symphony suite. It is a suite composed of several instrumental music, with strong movements and good performance of social customs. For example, Bach's piano suite English Suite, French Suite, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite, Bizet's Carmen Suite and Li Huanzhi's Spring Festival Suite. Third, symphonic poetry. It is a free-form single movement title symphony music, which is used to describe narrative, lyrical or dramatic content. This genre was initiated by the Hungarian pianist Liszt in 1850. He wrote 13 symphonic poems. Others include Borodin's Central Asian Prairie, Bedrich Smetana's My Motherland, and China composer Shi Yongkang's The Story of the Yellow Crane. Fourth, overture. There are orchestral overtures such as opera and ballet, as well as concert overtures specially made for concerts, such as Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's 18 12 Overture. Fifth, dance music. Generally speaking, it refers to music written for concerts or fragments selected from ballet, such as John? Strauss's blue Danube and so on. Sixth, concerto. It is a large-scale instrumental music with great technical difficulty played by solo instruments and bands. Usually divided into three movements: the first movement, Allegro, sonata form; The second movement, Adagio; The third movement, Allegro, Rondo. There are also concertos with one movement, such as Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor and He He and Chen Gang's Chinese Violin Concerto. Seventh, random thoughts. It is an instrumental music with free structure and common folk songs, such as Tchaikovsky's Italian capriccio and Yang Shuzheng's Turkish capriccio. Eighth, rhapsody. It is a kind of music with great technical difficulty and fantasy nature, and mostly uses folk songs with national characteristics, such as Gershwin's rhapsody in blue and Xian Xinghai's Rhapsody of the Motherland.

Symphonic music is not a specific genre name, but a general term for instrumental music genre. The common characteristics of this school are:

1, played by a large orchestra;

2. Music has profound connotation and is dramatic, epic, tragic and heroic, or the music style is solemn, narrative, descriptive, lyrical and customary.

3. It has a rigorous structure and rich means of expression.

4. The expressive technique is clear, which can bring the audience into the artistic conception and imagination space of music.