Definition of Orchestration

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

Generic synonyms: Arrangement, Musical Arrangement
Derivative terms: Orchestrate

2. Noun. The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments.
Exact synonyms: Instrumentation
Generic synonyms: Arrangement, Arranging, Transcription
Derivative terms: Instrument, Orchestrate

3. Noun. An arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect. "The skillful orchestration of his political campaign"
Generic synonyms: Arrangement, Arranging, Transcription
Derivative terms: Orchestrate

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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