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Webster 1913 Edition


Orchestration

Orˊches-tra′tion

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Noun.
(Mus.)
The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; – called also
instrumentation
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Definition 2024


orchestration

orchestration

English

Noun

orchestration (countable and uncountable, plural orchestrations)

  1. (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra
  2. (countable) a composition that has been orchestrated
  3. (uncountable) the control of diverse elements
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
      It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” by way of The Running Man and Battle Royale, with touches of Survivor and the mass-scale orchestration of The Truman Show.

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Noun

orchestration f (plural orchestrations)

  1. orchestration