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  • verb To orchestrate again, in a new way

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re- +‎ orchestrate

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Examples

  • � The trio reorchestrate the arid melody, but catch every rhythmic twist and hiccup in the original.

    Losing Jazz's Preconceptions With 'Historicity' 2009

  • � The trio reorchestrate the arid melody, but catch every rhythmic twist and hiccup in the original.

    Losing Jazz's Preconceptions With 'Historicity' 2009

  • “When we are out of harmony, music can reorchestrate our lives for the health of mind, body, and soul.”

    Gentle Healing for Baby and Child Andrea Candee 2000

  • Yes; Strauss is the man to reorchestrate the symphonies of Schumann, particularly the B flat, the Rhenish and the Fourth.

    Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

  • Most notably, he was an avid early adopter of the digital composition software Performer, which made it easy to orchestrate - and repeatedly reorchestrate - his music himself.

    NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER 2012

  • Having to completely reorchestrate the score to fit more mature voices, he used the opportunity to create moments of doubt, fear, and subtext in the music that didn't exist before.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed CARLY MAGA 2011

  • Grofe and Gershwin went back later to reorchestrate it for symphony orchestra, which gives the piece its more classical polish, but hearing it in the original version for about two dozen jazz-trained musicians, mostly brass and reed, restores the sound of

    Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

  • Eric Schaeffer, the Signature's artistic director and the director of this "Show Boat," petitioned the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the heirs of Edna Ferber (author of the 1926 novel) to allow the Signature to reconceive the show for a more intimate space and to have Jonathan Tunick reorchestrate the score for 15 musicians.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID BELCHER 2009

  • This is a no-no on Broadway, where it would cost too much money to reorchestrate a score for a single performer, unless you’re such a big star that your name is selling tickets.

    Theater Geek Mickey Rapkin 2010

  • a prologue to the work and decided to reorchestrate it for a chamber group.

    Opera Today 2010

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