How to Use orchestration in a Sentence

orchestration

noun
  • The orchestration, the lyrics, the production, the sound, the noise, the level, et cetera, et cetera.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The new orchestration brings the score to splendid life.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • His orchestration, which includes the English horn phrase at the top, was one of the great secrets.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2022
  • And with the great Jonathan Tunick crafting the orchestrations.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Austin worked hard to capture that unique sound in his orchestrations.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the software world, Orquestra is what's known as an orchestration platform, hence the name.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • This inevitably raised the question of just how suited her pop hits are for pure orchestration.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2022
  • Nine years older, Robert did much of the orchestration, without quite making a silk purse of what he was given.
    Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The show is also up for scenic design, sound design and orchestrations, as well as the big one, best musical.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Even sans singers, the moods and colors of the opera shine through in the orchestration, with percussion and accordion sending the music for a burlesque spin.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The orchestration lets up on its assault for a breath, and the intimate moment carries.
    Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • Rick Edinger was the show’s music director, and Charlie Rosen wrote the orchestrations.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • To be able to see these and other images in person, with their majestic orchestration of light and either color or black and white, is quite the gift.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And a one-loss Big Ten champion, by almost any orchestration, will take a playoff spot.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The orchestration was way too large to fit the entire orchestra in the pit, so we were staged very creatively on stage with the singers and action occurring all around us.
    Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The key to making this work in the real world is experience orchestration.
    John Hernandez, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • And, as an evolving project, some aspects of orchestration and automation are still work in progress.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The set, costume, and lighting-design awards were all handed out this way, as were the book, orchestration, and choreography awards.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But to make this a reality, telcos will need to change their entire business model, from billing to orchestration and so on.
    Ido Susan, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • The live instruments and how the orchestration comes together really did it for me.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
  • With a band of this size there are felicities in the orchestration, not least in the elegant writing for woodwinds, but even those are smudged by a poor sound design that runs the gamut from loud to much louder.
    David Benedict, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The challenges are built into the Ginastera, pitting the harp against an orchestration including trumpets, horns, timpani and tom-toms.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • For Carnival, the band changes its orchestration to be more like a marching band, adding horns and percussion, and Abigail Cosio sheds her guitar for a megaphone.
    Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The addition of the singers, which required further orchestrations by Miller, was a distraction that made the ballet less musical.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • As the years went by, Handel added more instruments to his original orchestration.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Robinson's production helped, of course, from that classic guitar line to what may have been the most euphoric orchestration Motown would produce that decade.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Her Sunday teas at Casa Alvarado were a study in salon orchestration.
    Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Macosky and Raheja explain that a workflow can even be an orchestration of events using APIs.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Laurie Koivisto is the sound designer and handles the orchestration.
    George Yang, Wired, 17 May 2021
  • Sill cranked up the orchestration on Heart Food, incorporating strings, horns, and pedal steel guitar.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2021

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