The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
Arranging a piece of music for an orchestra. Also, the study of music. [Go to source
The art of combining the sounds of different instruments. Orchestration plays a large role in determining the sound quality, or color, of any given piece of music.
The designation of what instruments are to play what voices or notes in a composition. The process of orchestrating is often referred to as scoring.
The way music is scored for the orchestra. Romantic composers took particular delight in brilliant and vivid orchestration: Berlioz, for example, when he uses col legno to suggest rattling bones in the last movement of the Fantastique. Other masters of orchestration are Richard Strauss, Mahler, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
the process of scoring for an orchestra
The art of arranging a musical composition for play by a large array of instrumental forces.
The art of writing for the orchestra. Decisions about what instruments should play which parts of the music can affect the sound of a composition a great deal.
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
an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect; "the skillful orchestration of his political campaign"
The art of combining various instruments of the orchestra to create a desired sound.
the process of arranging music for an orchestra
The art of writing, arranging, or scoring for the orchestra.
The technique of setting instruments in various combinations.
The art of employing, in an instrumental composition, the various instruments in accordance with (a) their individual properties and (b) the composer's concept of the sonorous effect of his work;
The automated coordination and management of composite applications components that participate in a business process. Orchestration is often most important in long running business processes where the number and type of exception conditions are greatly increased over traditional short lived business transactions. An orchestrated process will often NOT roll back all the work that has occurred at the time of a given business exception. Rather it will follow one or more rules and execute compensating transactions and/or accept the state of the process as satisfactory at the time of the exception.
The assigning of timbres to various parts in a music composition in order to create an expressive effect.
The art of writing for the orchestra. Decisions about which instruments should play which parts affect the sound of a composition a great deal. Composers usually orchestrate their own compositions.
The art of writing for orchestra. A work that is well orchestrated, using efficient combinations of string, wind, and brass instruments, will sound much 'clearer' than a work that is poorly orchestrated. The masters of orchestration include Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Elgar, and Prokofiev.
The art of arranging, writing or scoring music for an orchestra.
Orchestration describes the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex computer systems, middleware, and services.