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noun

Instrumentation n.

The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. "Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact."

(Mus.)

(a)

The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.

(b)

The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.

The act of using instruments to measure or control the behavior of an object, as a patient in a hospital or a machine being tested while under development.

The act of furnishing or attaching instruments to/

The set of instruments included in a system; as, a harvester with modern instrumentation.

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Etymology of 'Instrumentation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Instrumentation" Quotes from Famous Books

... anesthetic, general or local is needed.) In the presence of laryngeal symptoms, think of the following: 1. A foreign body in the larynx. 2. A foreign body loose or fixed in the trachea. 3. Digital efforts at removal. 4. Instrumentation. 5. Overflow of food into the larynx from esophageal obstruction due to the foreign body. 6. Esophagotracheal fistula from ulceration set up by a foreign body in the esophagus, followed by the leakage of food into the air-passages. 7. Laryngeal symptoms may persist from the trauma of a ...

— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... capacity of fine music is equal to any words. The beauty of Schubert's songs is their completeness. They are lyrics, and the words are only an addition. Those who heard Rakemann play the translated serenade will remember that the instrumentation produced the whole effect of the song. If the music be fine, it gives all the sentiment of the words in its own way. It is like painting a statue to unite them. Sometimes, indeed, one feels that both are written ...

— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke

... and at flowers with reference to evening parties. At picture exhibitions and concerts she carried away jacket patterns and bonnets in her head, as other people make mental notes of an aerial effect, or a bit of fine instrumentation. An enthusiastic horticulturist once sent Miss Letitia a cut specimen of a new flower. It was a lovely spray from a lately-imported shrub. A botanist would have pressed it—an artist must have taken its portrait—a poet might have ...

— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... singing was required, there were a good many mad parts. Probably Purcell would have treated all Wagner's characters, and all Berlioz's, as utterly and irretrievably mad. Nor have I space to discuss his instrumental music and his instrumentation, but must refer shortly to the fact that the overtures to the plays are equal to Handel's best in point of grandeur, and that in freedom, quality of melody, and daring, and fruitful use of new harmonies, the sonatas are ahead of anything attempted until Mozart ...

— Old Scores and New Readings • John F. Runciman

... Dori,' which was performed in 1663. But it seems almost certain that Scarlatti was the first to use accompanied recitative, a powerful means of dramatic expression in the hands of all who followed him, while his genius advanced the science of instrumentation ...

— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild

... sights—to think we should have continued to welcome that sort of thing so long! Well, these people reported him as conscientiously busy, for his hour each day, with grammar and dictionary. He was also getting his hand in painting; and he had "taken on" musical composition, even to instrumentation. "Too many irons!" commented my lively young informant. "And I think I should get my painting in Paris and my music in Germany." She also said that Raymond had next to no social life—he showed hardly the ...

— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller

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