instrumentation
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The 40-piece ensemble, complete with string, woodwind, brass, percussion and keyboard instrumentation, “can pretty much play anything,” Walden said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
She retains the delicacy of the instrumentation, but introduces a gorgeous complexity that, in someone else’s hands, would be too much, but here, simply enhances the vocal delivery.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
The Puerto Rican star's musically ambitious Debí Tirar Más Fotos, fuses live instrumentation with the hip-swaying pulse of reggaeton, plena, salsa and a multitude of other Latin styles.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
It would be wrong to read it back into the Scientific Revolution; before the precision instrumentation of the Industrial Revolution impartiality and judgement were virtues, not ways of re-describing professional competence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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