orchestration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band
noun the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments
noun an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect

From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.

For three reasons I would except Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, and perhaps also one or two things of Liszt, who excelled all other musicians in the noble tone of his orchestration; and finally everything that has been produced beyond the Alps_--this side_ of the Alps. — Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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