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orchestration|ɔːkɪˈstreɪʃən|
[f. prec., or its source: see -ation. Cf. mod.F. orchestration (1878 in Dict. Acad.).]
a. The action or art of composing or arranging music for an orchestra; the style in which a piece of music is orchestrated; instrumentation of orchestral music.
1864in Webster. 1864Reader 17 Sept. 364 The reveries of Lorenzo and Jessica are set to soft dreamy strains, with orchestration of no less delicate texture. 1876Athenæum 7 Oct. 472/1 The setting of the vocal parts is as splendid as the orchestration is picturesque and powerful. 1889Ibid. 5 June 10/2 No master of orchestration has had a clearer insight into the individual character and colour of each instrument.
b. fig. Harmonious combination, as of the parts or instruments in an orchestra.
1888F. T. Marzials Victor Hugo 98 Music will make them immortal, a kind of superb verbal orchestration that for variety and power, for ‘sonority’ and brilliance of effect, has no equal in French dramatic verse. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. 378 His soul echoed orchestrally the orchestrations of nature and of humanity. 1900G. Iles Flame, Electr. & the Camera 252 A new orchestration of inquiry is possible by means of the instruments created for him by the electrician. 1905Smart Set Sept. 113/1 Suddenly there was developed a terrific orchestration of chromatic odors. 1936Essays & Stud. XXI. 150 The Wreck of the Deutschland has a completeness, an intellectual and emotional unity, a subtlety and variety of verbal orchestration which are unique not only in English but in the literature of the world. 1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action vi. 138 The world community which we envisage and hope to bring to the birth is a variety-in-unity. In the useful phrase of the American writer, L. K. Frank, it involves an orchestration of cultures. 1956H. Whitehall in Kenyon Rev. XVIII. 418 Yet ‘orchestration’ is affected by another feature of English. 1959[see build-up c]. 1966Economist 2 Apr. 17/2 What is required is the orchestration of the western countries' common interest in reaching an arrangement with Russia. 1975Country Life 16 Jan. 139/2 Braque..achieved a marvellous orchestration of colours and forms. 1975New Yorker 5 May 132/2 Each night, the great orchestration of the evening news went on. 1977Time 17 Oct. 22/1 A conference that collapsed because of poor orchestration was even worse than no conference at all.
c. An overcoat. U.S. slang.
1940Music Makers May 37/3 Orchestration, an overcoat. 1970in C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang. |