A symphony is an extended piece of music for orchestra, especially one in sonata form.

Symphony, symphonies or symphonic may also refer to:

Music

  • Symphony orchestra, an orchestra, which specializes in the performance of post-17th-century orchestral repertoire
  • Symphony song, genre in the age of Purcell
  • Symphonia, a name applied to several kinds of musical instruments in ancient times
  • Symphonic metal, a genre of metal that incorporates its style from symphonies
  • Symphony (El Khoury), a 1985 symphony by Bechara El Khoury
  • Symphonies (Sallinen), compositions by Aulis Sallinen
  • Symphonic Distribution, a digital music distribution company

Bands

  • Symphony X, an American progressive metal band

Albums

  • Symphony (album), a 2008 album by Sarah Brightman
  • Symphonic (Falco album), a live performance recorded in 1994 and released in 2008
  • Symphonic (Jorn album), released in 2013
  • Symphonies (EP), a 2011 remix EP by In Fear and Faith
  • Symphonies, a 2016 studio album by Neurotech

Songs

  • "Symphony" (1945 song), a 1945 song made popular by numerous artists
  • "Symphony" (Clean Bandit song), a 2017 song by Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson
  • "Symphony", a 1992 song by Donell Rush
  • "Symphony", a 1999 song by EPMD from the album Out of Business
  • "Symphony" (Sarah Brightman song), on the same-named album from 2008
  • "Symphony", a 2011 Christian song by Chris Tomlin from the album Passion: Here for You
  • "Symphony" (Imagine Dragons song), a 2022 song by Imagine Dragons from the album Mercury – Acts 1 & 2
  • "Symphonie", a 2004 song by Silbermond from the album
  • "Symphonies" (song), a 2009 song by Dan Black from the album UN
  • "The Symphony" (song), a song by Marley Marl from the 1988 album In Control, Volume 1

Computer science

  • Symphony Communication, a communication software used by financial firms
  • Symphony (software), a distributed computing software
  • IBM Lotus Symphony, an office suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
  • Lotus Symphony (DOS), an office suite for DOS from the 1980s
  • Symphony, codename for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
  • COIN-OR SYMPHONY, a software library for solving a specific class of operations research problems
  • Symfony, a web application framework written in PHP
  • Symphony Laboratories, a defunct chipset designer
  • Symphony CMS, an XSLT-powered open source web content management system written in PHP

Radio, film and games

  • Symphony 92.4FM, a Singaporean radio channel
  • Symphony (video game), a 2012 music-based shoot-em-up video game
  • Symphony (film), a 2004 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by I. V. Sasi

Technology and brands

  • Symphony (MBTA station), an underground subway stop in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Symphony Aircraft Industries, a light aircraft manufacturer
  • Symphony Technology Group, a private company based in Palo Alto, California
  • Symphonic, a defunct electronics brand formerly manufactured by Funai
  • Symphony, a turbofan engine under development by Boom Supersonic

Other

  • Symphony (grape), a type of grape used to make white wine
  • Symphony, the ring name of professional wrestling valet Alicia Webb
  • Symphony (Agendia), a suite of gene assays
  • Symphony, the magazine of the League of American Orchestras
  • Symphony (candy), a chocolate candy bar manufactured by Hershey's
  • Symphony of the Seas, a 2018 cruise ship

See also

  • Symphonia (disambiguation)
  • Symphonie, communications satellites from a Franco-German program
  • Symphogear, a 2012 musical action anime series