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Orchestration   /ˌɔrkəstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Orchestration

noun
1.
An arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band.
2.
The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments.  Synonym: instrumentation.
3.
An arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect.






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"Orchestration" Quotes from Famous Books



... to mastery over the audience. The bold and generous orchestration, the exceptional chorus, the fine and brilliant tenor, had made a broad path for her last and supreme effort. The audience had long since given up their critical sense, they were ready to be carried into captivity again, and the surrender was instant and complete. Now, not an eye ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... the world." Death is the inevitable corollary of supreme love. But as they tremblingly yearn for and await the inconceivable, earth once more stretches out her arms to them, the dream of metaphysical existence melts slowly away. In the orchestration phantoms of the day, dreams of morning, suppress the new, the ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

... piece is grand. It is nothing less than the struggle of passion and pure love, of flesh and spirit, of the animal and the angel in man. The music is always expressive, the choruses very beautiful, the orchestration skillful, but the whole is fatiguing and excessive, too full, too laborious. When all is said, it lacks gayety, ease, naturalness and vivacity—it has no smile, no wings. Poetically one is fascinated, ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... that early summer knows, between the day's full-throated orchestration and the night song of whippoorwills, held the world in a bated stillness, and the walnut tree stood as unstirring as some age-crowned priest with arms outstretched in ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

... Stainer's Dictionary, a device was formerly found in some organs by which the keys of the Swell were caused to act upon the keys of the Great. The coupler being brought on and off by a pedal, sforzando effects could be produced, or the first beat in cadi measure strongly accented in the style of the orchestration of the great masters. Hope-Jones in his pioneer organ at St. John's Church, Birkenhead, England, provided a pedal which brought the Tuba on the Great organ. The pedal was thrown back by a spring on being released from the pressure of the foot. Some fine effects could be produced by this, but of ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller



Words linked to "Orchestration" :   transcription, arrangement, instrumentation, arranging, musical arrangement, orchestrate



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