Orchestral music

thumb|right|300px|A hand-written Sheet music|musical score for Act 2 of the [[opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, written in the 1820s. The score contains all the parts for the singers and the accompaniment parts and melodies for the orchestra.]] Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orchestration is the assignment of different instruments to play the different parts (e.g., melody, bas

music term; arrangement or transcription of an existing score or composition in which complexity is lessened to make analysis, performance, or practice easier or clearer

music genre

library of musical instrument samples

book by Hector Berlioz