Related Directory Categories
- Music (91924)
- Bands and Artists (38448)
- Styles (22329)
- Composition (10804)
- Composers (10775)
- Instruments (8922)
- R (8084)
- Rock (6047)
- C (5688)
- Music (4674)
Sources
open directory project
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Instrumentation (music)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In music, the word instrumentation is used to refer to the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and to the properties of those instruments individually. Instrumentation is also sometimes used as a synonym for orchestration, which more properly refers to a composer's or (arranger's) craft of employing instruments in varying combinations.
Writing for any instrument requires a composer or arranger to know the instrument's properties, such as:
- the instrument's particular timbre, or range of timbres;
- the range pitches available on the instrument, as well as its dynamic range;
- the constraints of playing technique, such as length of breath, possible fingerings, or the average player's stamina;
- the relative difficulty of particular music on that instrument (for example, repeated notes are much easier to play on the violin than on the piano; while trills are relatively easy on the flute, but extremely difficult on the trombone);
- the availability of special effects or extended techniques, such as col legno playing, fluttertounge, or glissando;
- the notation conventions for the instrument.
- Orchestra
- String section
- Orchestration
- Arrangement
- Hornbostel-Sachs instrument classification system
- Randel, Don (1986). The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, pp. 397, 575-577. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-61525-5 (hc)
 |
This music theory article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |