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/ˌɔrkəstrˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Orchestration

noun

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

The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments. Synonym: instrumentation.

An arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect.

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"Orchestration" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact, each time I heard Carmen it seemed to me that I was more of a philosopher, a better philosopher than at other times: I became so forbearing, so happy, so Indian, so settled.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} To sit for five hours: the first step to holiness!—May I be allowed to say that Bizet's orchestration is the only one that I can endure now? That other orchestration which is all the rage at present—the Wagnerian—is brutal, artificial and "unsophisticated" withal, hence its appeal to all the three senses of the modern soul at once. How terribly Wagnerian orchestration affects me! I call it ...

— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. • Friedrich Nietzsche.

... be, and should be, quite as tender, as attentive, as gallant and self-sacrificing, as sympathetic, proud, and devoted as a lover; yet all his emotions will appear in a new orchestration, as it were. In the gallant attentions of a loving husband, the anxious eagerness to please is displaced by a pleasant sense of duty and gentlemanly courtesy. He still prefers his wife to all other women and wants a monopoly of ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

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