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orchestrationArt of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums for battle or royal ceremony. Once entirely dependent on what was available or customary, composers began to explore the musical potential of instrumental combinations with the advent of the modern orchestra in the mid- to late 18th century. The first great orchestration text was written by Hector Berlioz in 1844. |
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Paris rumor mill, "The possible orchestrators of a bid include the Bronfman family, which owns 6 percent of Vivendi; cable mogul John Malone, with 3. The unit operates with Rheometric's Windows-based Orchestrator software, which is said to allow seamless integration into existing computer networks and easy transfer of data to other Windows programs for databases and presentations. The new songs are much more celebratory than before, and the best of them, "Found Love" (a collaboration with Knuckles and orchestrator Peter Schwartz), evokes the symphonic best of Diana Ross and Donna Summer. |
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