instrumentation
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌɪnstrəmenˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
instrumentación
- The symphony's rich sound is achieved through careful instrumentation that highlights each musician's strengths.
- use of instrumentation
- music and instrumentation
- band instrumentation
The the pianos on it, the instrumentation, the his vocals, the writing.
- The the pianos on it, the instrumentation, the his vocals, the writing.
- They've got the instrumentation, young kids and dogs, young kids and animals.
- I'd have to say I'd have to say Born to give just because the instrumentation.
Examples
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In summary, select music that best fits the personality and instrumentation of your band.
Academic text (1991) -
Details such as motivic development, types of accompaniment, form, and instrumentation should be brought to the students' attention.
Academic text (1993) -
Students are asked to answer questions on the rhythm, mood, instrumentation, and "color" of the pieces.
Academic text (1999) -
I now had enough musicians and close to proper instrumentation to take a concert band to the festival.
Academic text (2015) -
The size and instrumentation vary mostly by the availability of instruments and players.
Academic text (2008) -
One group decided to put aside their primary concert band instruments and instead work with rock band instrumentation.
Academic text (2007) -
The student should be able to recognize instrumentation, texture, genre, style, and the cultural context of the composition.
Academic text (1992) -
The track concludes with washed-out but heavy instrumentation, a vigorous life force finding rich expression.
Blog text (25) -
The study asked questions about the tempo, meter, texture, instrumentation, melody, harmony, and dynamics.
Academic text (2003) -
A Swahili coast musical genre that is sung in Swahili but uses much Arabic instrumentation.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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4.2
A version of a piece of music written for different instruments or voices
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6.7
An arrangement of a musical piece that shows which instruments play each part
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4.2
Making a piece of music fit for different instruments or voices
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3.8
A version of a song changed for certain voices or instruments
How Instrumented
Surface Forms
Morphology
instrumentation = instrument (semi-transparent) = instrument + ation
The form clearly contains 'instrument', but the musical-arrangement sense is a specialized nominalization rather than a fully predictable everyday meaning.
Etymology
Instrumentation comes from instrument, which means 'tool' or 'device', plus the ending -ation that makes a noun about an action or a group of things. So in music, instrumentation is the art of using and arranging musical instruments, which is why it names the instruments used in a piece or how the music is written for them.