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Definition of Orchestration

1. Noun. An arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band.

2. Noun. The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments.

3. Noun. An arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect. "The skillful orchestration of his political campaign"

Definition of Orchestration

1. n. The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

Definition of Orchestration

1. Noun. the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra ¹

2. Noun. a composition that has been orchestrated ¹

3. Noun. the control of diverse elements ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orchestration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchestration

orchesography orchestian orchestra hit orchestra pit orchestral orchestral bells orchestrally orchestras orchestrate orchestrated

orchestrater orchestraters orchestrates orchestrating orchestration (current term) orchestrational orchestrations orchestrator orchestrators orchestre

orchestrelle orchestrelles orchestric orchestrina orchestrinas orchestrion orchestrions orchi- orchialgia

Literary usage of Orchestration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Orchestra and Orchestral Music by William James Henderson (1899)
"X Qualities of Good orchestration IT is now possible to speak more in detail about those essential qualities of good orchestration to which reference was ..."

2. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"CHAPTER VI INSTRUMENTATION Influence of New Instruments in the Development of orchestration—VV'hy "Additional Accompaniments" are Irreverent—Variety in ..."

3. Music (1897)
"A WORD AS TO orchestration. BY JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. Perhaps there is no form of musical writing so little understood by the world at large—on one hand, ..."

4. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"B. — Of orchestration. Instrumentation, in the sense that we attach to this word, is a science merely ; it teaches what can be asked and obtained from each ..."

5. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"Registration bears the same relation to organ music that orchestration bears to orchestral music. The selection and combination of the orchestral ..."

6. The Bookman (1903)
"Offenbach's orchestration is generally beneath criticism. Bare, noisy and commonplace, it is the work of an evident tyro. But even here, the composer's ..."

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