orchestrate
verbUK /ˈɔː(ɹ).kə.stɹeɪt/ · US /ˈɔɹ.kəstˌɹeɪt/
Etymology From orchestra + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French orchestrer.
1
To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra.
2
To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance.
- Sergio Leone orchestrated "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
3
To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect
- 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.1980, Film/psychology Review, volume 4, page 80:
3 more examples
- By orchestrating this work with such cool reserve, Doolas avoided the pitfall of turning her celebration of womanhood into a free-for-all hugfest.1988 March 4, Justin Hayford, “Ambiguous Gestures”, in Chicago Reader:
- State ceremonies aimed to induce a sense of respectful awe and emotional surrender in participants by an increasingly orchestrated and theatrical ceremonialism.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 529:
- He might orchestrate the curved lines into stepped, hivelike hills […].2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- bandstrated, disorchestrated, misorchestrate, orchestrater, overorchestrate, reorchestrate, unorchestrated
- Related terms
- orchestration, orchestrator