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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



... wrinkles around eyes that shone with an artist's enjoyment of his work. Down under cover of the ridge were his guns, the keys of the instrument that he played by calls over the wire. Their barking was a symphony to his ears; errors of orchestration were errors in aim. He talked as he watched, his lively features reflective ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... mucker is to have your back set against a wall and a few lead pellets whiffed into you in a moment, while yet you are all in a heat and a fury of combat, with drums sounding on all sides, and people crying, and a general smash like the infernal orchestration at the end ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... a better course in orchestration than I imagined existed, and I met a girl the other day, and I'm ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... unmitigated prose. The action has stood still nearly all through the act, but no one would wish to miss a bar of any other portion. The king's reproaches of his friend and vassal for his treachery, and the music with its gloomy orchestration, mostly of horns, bassoons, viola, and lower strings, with occasional English horn, and the deepest notes of the clarinet interspersed with wails of the bass-clarinet, are profoundly touching and proceed naturally out of the situation. ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight
... 16. Gabriel Pierne's orchestration of C. Franck's "Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue" for pianoforte, given by the ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
... anything grander in style, or stamped with more living and irresistible energy. It is a consummate work, supported by an accompaniment of marvelous orchestration, as indeed is every portion of this opera. The vigor of youth illumines ...
— Massimilla Doni • Honore de Balzac


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


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