orchestrate

Definition

To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra.

Etymology

From orchestra + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French orchestrer.

Example Sentences

• "Sergio Leone orchestrated "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"."
• "Orchestrated histories are not fact-based."
• "Here is chromophonic montage at its most skillful, as Minnelli orchestrates camera movement, music, and lighting in a crescendo of sound and color which red comes to dominate in the climactic moment of violent explosion."

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