0 a usually long piece of music for an orchestra of many different instruments, in three or four movements or parts. -- simfoni
She need not have worried: this work is audibly a symphony from first bar to last.
His catalogue of seventy works includes five symphonies.
In the symphony as a whole he let himself down by attempting to hang weighty arguments on material unsuitable for extended treatment.
Examples of all these processes are found in the symphony's first section.
Clearly there is an interface here (although interface is perhaps too rigid a word) between symphonies with titles and symphonies with topics.
How is a symphony started by the orchestra?
Birds whistle, only man sings, and one cannot hear a song or a symphony without immediately saying: another sentient being is here.
Is your enjoyment of the music just reduced by 3/60 of what it would have been if the whole symphony were played?
