Definitionn. an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band
Last update: August 3, 2015
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The narrower term "orchestration" is applied to the instrumentation of orchestral music. Since the most obvious differences of timbre are in those of various instruments, the art which blends and contrasts timbre is most easily discussed as the treatment of instruments; but we must use this term with philosophic breadth and allow it to include voices. [Please select]
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Then in a little while the stage grew dark, the orchestration lapsed to a murmur, and the tenor and the soprano reentered. [Please select]
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From up there, dominating the lyrical assembly, at regular intervals he cuts into the vague orchestration of the Grasshoppers and the Toads. [Please select]
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It was wonderful, such music as that; wonderful, such a voice; wonderful, such orchestration; wonderful, such exaltation inspired by mere beauty of sound. [Please select]
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His orchestration is more varied, euphonious, and enchanting than Beethoven's, and in this direction he did for the symphony what Weber did for the opera. [Please select]
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