Orchestration

Japanese: 管弦楽法 - かんげんがくほう（英語表記）orchestration

A part of music theory that considers the technique of orchestrating a musical idea, as well as the performance of the various instruments required for this, their acoustic relationships, the quality of the combinations, and how to handle musical phrases. The performance of instruments has changed significantly over the past 100 years, but today, examples are generally taken from works from the classical period onwards, and the characteristics, playing techniques, and range of the instruments are explained. Furthermore, the combination of various instruments and the contrast of timbre and volume are important parts of orchestration, and the question is how to use the orchestra to its maximum effect. Orchestration developed relatively recently, and famous books on orchestration by H. Berlioz, R. Strauss, and Rimsky-Korsakov are well known.

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Japanese:

ある楽想を管弦楽化する作曲技法および，その際に必要な諸楽器の性能，相互の音響的関係，組合せの良否，楽句の処理法などを考察する音楽理論の一部。楽器の性能は，過去 100年の間に著しく変化したが，今日では一般に古典派以後の作品から用例がとられ，楽器の特質，奏法，音域などが説明される。さらに，諸楽器の組合せ方，音色あるいは音量の対比のさせ方などは，管弦楽法の重要な部門で，いかに管弦楽を駆使して最大の効果をあげるかが問題となる。管弦楽法は比較的近代になって発達し，H.ベルリオーズや R.シュトラウス，リムスキー＝コルサコフの管弦楽法の著書が有名である。

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