Orchestration
Orchestration.
1. The art of scoring mus. for an orch. or band. Many composers show special skill in this, e.g. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, while Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler, Elgar, Strauss, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Britten were all masters of the art.
2. Arr. of a work for orch. which was comp. for another medium, e.g. Ravel's orchestration of his own Ma mère l'Oye, written for pf. duet.
1. The art of scoring mus. for an orch. or band. Many composers show special skill in this, e.g. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, while Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler, Elgar, Strauss, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Britten were all masters of the art.
2. Arr. of a work for orch. which was comp. for another medium, e.g. Ravel's orchestration of his own Ma mère l'Oye, written for pf. duet.
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