What is "ensemble"

Ensemble \En`sem"ble\, n. [F.] The whole; all the parts taken together. [1913 Webster] ||

Ensemble \En`sem"ble\, adv. [F.] All at once; together.

1703, "union of parts, parts of a thing taken together," from French ensemblée "all the parts of a thing considered together," from Late Latin insimul "at the same time," from in- intensive prefix + simul "at the same time," related to similis (see similar). Musical sense of "union of all parts in a performance" in English first attested 1844. Of women's dress and accessories, from 1927. Earlier in English as an adverb (mid-15c.), "together, at the same time."

n. 1 a group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole 2 a coordinated costume or outfit; a suit 3 (senseid en a group of musicians, dancers etc who perform together; the chorus of a ballet company)a group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company 4 (context music English) a piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists vb. To put together in a coordinated whole.

1. n. a group of musicians playing or singing together; "a string ensemble"

2. a cast other than the principles [syn: supporting players]

3. the chorus of a ballet company [syn: corps de ballet]

4. an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole [syn: tout ensemble]

5. a coordinated outfit (set of clothing)

In continuum mechanics, an ensemble is an imaginary collection of notionally identical experiments.

Each member of the ensemble will have nominally identical boundary conditions and fluid properties. If the flow is turbulent, the details of the fluid motion will differ from member to member because the experimental setup will be microscopically different; and these slight differences become magnified as time progresses. Members of an ensemble are, by definition, statistically independent of one another. The concept of ensemble is useful in thought experiments and to improve theoretical understanding of turbulence.

A good image to have in mind is a typical fluid mechanics experiment such as a mixing box. Imagine a million mixing boxes, distributed over the earth; at a predetermined time, a million fluid mechanics engineers each start one experiment, and monitor the flow. Each engineer then sends his or her results to a central database. Such a process would give results that are close to the theoretical ideal of an ensemble.

It is common to speak of ensemble average or ensemble averaging when considering a fluid mechanical ensemble.

For a completely unrelated type of averaging, see Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (the two types of averaging are often confused).

The idea of the ensemble is discussed further in the article Statistical ensemble (mathematical physics).

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Ensemble is a group-composition project devised by Karlheinz Stockhausen for the 1967 Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Twelve composers and twelve instrumentalists participated, and the resulting performance lasted four hours. It is not assigned a work number in Stockhausen's catalogue of works.

Ensemble is the second studio album by Kendji Girac. It was released on 30 October 2015 with "Me Quemo" released as the debut single from the album. The album has surpassed sales of 500,000 copies and was certified diamond in France and platinum on Belgian francophone charts.

Other singles from the album include the promotional "Les yeux de la mama" in 2015 and "No me mires más" and "Tu y yo" in 2016.

Ensemble (sometimes written Ensemble!, full name in French 'Ensemble - Mouvement pour une Alternative de Gauche, Ecologique et Solidaire') is a French political movement, defining itself as anticapitalist, antiracist, feminist and ecosocialist, which was launched in November 2013 by several smaller groupings, including:

• the Anticapitalist Left (France) (French: Gauche Anticapitaliste), a group formed in 2011 as a tendency within the Trotskyist-influenced New Anticapitalist Party (which it left in 2012) advocating an electoral strategy based on unity with other anti-neoliberal and anticapitalist forces, in particular the Left Front;
• Les Alternatifs, a 'red-green' organisation founded in 1988 some of whose roots go back to the Unified Socialist Party (France) (French: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU) and influenced by the movement for workers' control or self-management (French : 'autogestion');
• the Federation for a Social and Ecological Alternative (Fédération pour une Alternative Sociale et Ecologique, FASE), a group formed in 2008 including many former members of the French Communist Party, and including the association Communistes Unitaires.

The membership of Ensemble is thus made up of activists coming from various left-wing and radical political traditions: altercommunist, trotskyist, feminist, 'red-green', ecologist etc., as well as trade unionists and global justice activists (alterglobalists).

Paid-up membership in June 2015 was approximately 1,200 (internal sources), with several hundred sympathisers.

The movement is a member of the Left Front (France) (French: Front de Gauche), which also includes the French Communist Party and the Left Party (Parti de Gauche). The candidate of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Left Party, obtained 11.1% of the votes in the first round of the French presidential election, 2012.

Ensemble aims towards strengthening the Left Front by building a broad movement against austerity. It opposes all forms of inequality, racism and oppression including homophobia, islamophobia and antisemitism, and seeks to develop links with anticapitalist groupings outside the Left Front, including more left-wing members of Europe Ecology - The Greens (French: Europe Ecologie-Les Verts). Internationally, it has been involved in discussions and joint activities with the Party of the European Left, Podemos (Spain), Syriza (Greece), Sinn Féin (Ireland), the Left Bloc (Portugal) and others.

Ensemble was formally constituted at a conference held 31 January-1 February 2015 in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Considering that the merger process had been successfully completed, most of its founding groups then decided to dissolve themselves.

A national delegate meeting takes place in principle 3 times per year. A national coordinating committee ('Equipe d'Animation Nationale, EAN') meets weekly. Its spokespersons include Myriam Martin, Clémentine Autain and Jean-François Pellissier.

Two Members of Parliament, Jacqueline Fraysse and François Asensi, both former communists who left the French Communist Party in 2010, were, until it was dissolved in 2015, members of the FASE, one of the original constituent groups of Ensemble. An unknown number of local elected officials (including Mayors) and councillors are also members or associates of Ensemble.

Philippe Marlière, professor of political science at University College London, and a longstanding member of the French Socialist Party, and later of the New Anticapitalist Party, joined Ensemble in February 2015.

The headquarters of the movement is in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), near Paris.

Ensemble! has a website which is regularly updated, and publishes bulletins, leaflets and occasional brochures. Members of the movement are free to publish articles on the website, using a blog facility.

The movement holds an annual summer school (French: 'université d'été') in August. The first was held in Pau, with approximately 300 participants. The second took place at the university of Bordeaux from 22 to 26 August 2015, attracting approximately 420 participants.