In the study of orchestration – in contradistinction to the practice – the term instrumentation may also refer to consideration of the defining characteristics of individual instruments rather than to the art of combining instruments.

Holst's use of orchestration was very imaginative and colourful, showing the influence of Arnold Schoenberg and other continental composers of the day rather than his English predecessors.

Much of the band's sound was created by synthesized orchestration, and the music was increasingly written out rather than improvised.

Becker suggests that Meyerbeer in all his grand operas often ' created a deliberately ' unbeautiful ' sound ..... with unusual orchestration designed to express ... content rather than produce a sensuous sound ' and opines that this explains much of the criticism he received from German writers on music.

Lalo's idiom is notable for strong melodies and colourful orchestration, with a rather Germanic solidity that distinguishes him from other French composers of his era.

In stark contrast to his more famous contemporary and close friend, Edvard Grieg, Svendsen was famous for his skill of orchestration rather than that of harmonic value.

Although appearing to make rather arbitrary use of language, a distinction is often made between orchestration ( a local view from the perspective of one participant ) and choreography ( coordination from a global multi-participant perspective, albeit without a central controller ).

This style of music recalls the simplicity of music from early computer games, where primitive sound chips forced musicians to rely upon compositional skill and melody rather than orchestration or production values.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

The premiere of the Shostakovich orchestration of 1940 of Pavel Lamm's vocal score took place on 4 November 1959 at the Kirov Theatre.

David Russell Hulme, editor of the Oxford University Press 2000 scholarly edition of the score, has attributed the cuts and other changes to the music principally to Harry Norris, musical director of the D ' Oyly Carte at the time of the Glasgow revival, and the modifications to the opera's orchestration, as well as the new overture, to Geoffrey Toye.

His admiration for American jazz is echoed in L ' enfant et les sortilèges, the Violin Sonata and the Piano Concerto in G, while the Russian school of music inspired homage in " À la manière de Borodin " and the orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is best known through its orchestration by Ravel.

Emerson was adamant that he did not use Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in developing his own version.

In 1968, he studied the piano, clarinet, orchestration and modern music at the Royal College of Music before leaving after a year in favour of session music work.

In 1968, Wakeman secured a place at the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano, clarinet, orchestration and modern music.

Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.

More recently, Kristen Kuster created a choral orchestration, Myrrha, written in 2004 and first performed at Carnegie Hall in 2006.

Critics were at first irritated by the layer of mystification, but most praised the substance, structure, and orchestration of the work.

The ensembles such as the striking wind quartet at the end of the first act are full of life while the orchestration is the most balanced in all of Nielsen's works.

Perhaps de Lara's strongest area was his skill at orchestration which was both tasteful and highly creative at the same time.

Because of Whiteman ’ s advertisement of the concert at Aeolian Hall, and the orchestration for primarily wind instruments, the audience was predisposed to listen to the piece as a jazz work.

Grofé was later employed as a conductor and faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music where he taught orchestration.

There are also 3 symphonies, which, while not displaying any originality in form or structure, nevertheless show Bruch at his best as a composer of fine melodic talent and a gift for orchestration, firmly in the tradition of the Romantics.

Despite the quality of individual songs, " lush orchestration and a Ray Conniff type choir, presumably aimed at Dr. King ’ s predominantly middle class following, finally destroyed a lot of the record ’ s potential.

Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and contributor to many other Brazilian and international albums.

Meyerbeer's contribution was revealed at this stage to be the combination of Italian vocal lines, German orchestration and harmony, and the use of contemporary theatrical techniques, ideas which he carried forward in Robert and his later works.

Grieg revised the work at least seven times, usually in subtle ways, but amounting to over 300 differences from the original orchestration.

He taught himself harmony, counterpoint, musical forms and orchestration before completing his studies at Julliard School and Hartfod University.

He supported himself in Vienna playing the violin in theatre orchestras, at the Carlstheater and the privately supported Viennese institution, the Theater in der Josefstadt, which gave him practical experience with orchestration, an art he more than mastered.

A sunny, melodic work in the Schubert vein ( although its lyricism and superb orchestration do much to conceal the fact that it is one of the composer's most harmonically advanced works ).

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

The music of Carmen has been widely acclaimed for its brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere and orchestration, and for the skill with which Bizet represented musically the emotions and suffering of his characters.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

Puccini's editor Giulio Ricordi decided on Alfano because his opera La leggenda di Sakùntala resembled Turandot in its setting and heavy orchestration.

Really he was neither, or alternatively was a fusion of both .... is music, though Wagnerian in its orchestration and in its huge rising and falling periods, patently has its roots in older styles.

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a work famous for its innovative orchestration ( Berlioz 2002, xv ) is also a programme work and has both a march and a waltz and five movements instead of the customary four.

The term orchestration in its specific sense refers to the way instruments are used to portray any musical aspect such as melody or harmony.

His symphonic music is known for its complex and subtle orchestration.

Henri Duparc's Lenore ( 1875 ) displayed a Wagnerian warmth in its writing and orchestration.

In other efforts to update it, its orchestration was revised and amplified by ( among others ) Mozart.

In particular such a theme should be ' clearly identified so as to retain its identity if modified on subsequent appearances ' whether such modification be in terms of rhythm, harmony, orchestration or accompaniment.

In Paris ( 1899 ), the orchestration owes a debt to Richard Strauss ; its passages of quiet beauty, says Payne, nevertheless lack the deep personal involvement of the later works.

The completed score was dated 15 August 1905, and the orchestration was finished in 1906 ; he laid the Seventh aside to make small changes to the orchestration of the Sixth, while rehearsing for its premiere in May 1906.

His colorful orchestration technique, admired by Shostakovich and others in the past, is still noted for its freshness and vitality by modern composers.

It is unique among Bach ’ s cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the independence and prominence of the chorus, which is featured in four out of seven movements.

At its first performance Cooke's realisation of the final movement proved to be a revelation to listeners, and Cooke resolved to complete the orchestration and elaboration of the Scherzo movements, which required much more compositional work than he had time for.