Question: What did the composer of La traviata use the term "banda" to describe?

full_context: Document 1: Opera buffa: Opera buffa (] ; plural: "opere buffe"; Italian for "comic opera") is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as "commedia in musica", "commedia per musica", "dramma bernesco", "dramma comico", "divertimento giocoso".
Document 2: Virtual band: In music, a virtual band (also called a virtual group, cartoon group, or cartoon band) is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters. Although it mostly deals with fiction, the band itself doesn't fall under that category, as they exist outside a television and film universe. The music is recorded (and, in the case of concerts, performed) by human musicians and producers, while any media related to the virtual band, including albums, video clips and the visual component of stage performances, feature the animated line-up; in many cases the virtual band members have been credited as the writers and performers of the songs. Live performances can become rather complex, requiring perfect synchronization between the visual and audio components of the show.
Document 3: Intermezzo: In music, an intermezzo ( , ] , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term has had several different usages, which fit into two general categories: the opera intermezzo and the instrumental intermezzo.
Document 4: Rigoletto discography: This is a list of recordings of "Rigoletto", an opera by Giuseppe Verdi with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play "Le roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
Document 5: Stresa Festival Orchestra: The Stresa Festival Orchestra is a formation composed by young and talented musicians, coming from renewed european orchestras, calling by Gianandrea Noseda to perform every year some original production for the Stresa Festival. The debut of the Orchestra, on 26 August 2003 with Mozart’ "Don Giovanni", began the project of the concert performances of different operas: "Così fan tutte" (2004), "Le nozze di Figaro" (2005), "The magic flute" (2006), "La clemenza di Tito" (2007), "The Rake’s progress" (2008), "La Cenerentola" (2009), "Idomeneo" (2010). During the years many singers was invited such as Evgenij Akimov, Simone Alberghini, Sergej Alexashkin, Tatiana Borodina, Nicola Beller Carbone, Natale De Carolis, Mariella Devia, Barbara Frittoli, Vivica Genaux, Massimo Giordano, Andrew Kennedy, Alessandra Marianelli, Peter Mattei, Sally Matthews, Francesco Meli, Maxim Mironov, Tomislav Muzek, Laura Polverelli, Nicola Ulivieri, Franco Vassallo.
Document 6: Operetta: Operetta is a genre of light opera, "light" in terms both of music and subject matter.
Document 7: Turandot (Busoni): Turandot is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni's opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated "Turandot Suite" (BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi's play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni's earlier one-act opera "Arlecchino".
Document 8: Spieloper: In the 19th century, Spieloper ('opera play') was understood to mean a light opera genre, developed from Singspiel. Works typical of the genre include those by Albert Lortzing, such as "Zar und Zimmermann", and Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". A key difference between Spieloper and Singspiel on the one hand, and opera buffa on the other, is that the two former genres contain spoken dialogues instead of recitatives, which is why Conradin Kreutzer's "Das Nachtlager in Granada" and Friedrich von Flotow's "Martha" do not belong to this genre.
Document 9: Banda (opera): In opera, a banda (Italian for "band") refers to a musical ensemble (normally of wind instruments) which is used in addition to the main orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera. A banda sul palco (band on the stage) was prominently used in Rossini's Neapolitan operas. Verdi used the term "banda" to refer to a "banda sul palco", as in the score for "Rigoletto". He used the term "banda interna" (internal band), to refer to a band which is still separate from the orchestra but heard from the off-stage wings. The early scores of "La traviata" use a "banda interna".
Document 10: La Traviata (1983 film): La Traviata is a 1983 Italian film written, designed, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is based on the opera "La traviata" with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Soprano Teresa Stratas, tenor Plácido Domingo, and baritone Cornell MacNeil starred in the movie, in addition to singing their roles. The film premiered in Italy in 1982 and went into general release there the following year. It opened in theatres in the U.S. on April 22, 1983. The movie's soundtrack with James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
Document 11: La traviata: La traviata (] , The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on "La Dame aux Camélias" (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera was originally titled "Violetta", after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice.
Document 12: La Dame aux Camélias: La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, "fils", first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage. "La Dame aux Camélias" premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera "La Traviata", with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry.
Document 13: Rigoletto: Rigoletto (] ) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play "Le roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
Document 14: La traviata discography: The following is a partial discography of the many audio and video recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata. Based on the novel "La dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "La traviata" has been a staple of the operatic repertoire since its premiere on 6 March 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Document 15: Il trovatore: Il trovatore (] ; Italian for "The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play "El trovador" (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotelian unities, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident."
ground_truth: banda sul palco