Orchestration Meaning
/ˌɔrkəˈstreɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
nounA composition that has been orchestrated.
Sentence Examples
This piece is a virtuosic display of the composer's mastery of counterpoint and orchestration.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The composer spent weeks perfecting the ____ of the symphony for different instruments.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the diplomatic summit required months of preparation and coordination between nations.
Word Origin & History
From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
"Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section."
— 2021, Dhanushka Madushan, Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 130:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The composer spent weeks perfecting the ____ of the symphony for different instruments.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the diplomatic summit required months of preparation and coordination between nations.