Literary notes about orchestrate (AI summary)
Literary usage of "orchestrate" varies from describing the precise arrangement of musical elements to evoking the deliberate assembly of chaos into order. In some works, it denotes the methodical process a composer undertakes to realize a harmonious vision, as when one envisions exact harmonic formations before orchestrating a piece ([1]) or, conversely, struggles through an increasingly laborious process ([2]). At times, the term transcends the musical realm entirely, serving as a powerful metaphor for the artful manipulation of events—whether to incite widespread pandemonium ([3]) or to concentrate destructive force ([4]). Thus, the word encapsulates both the technicality of creative composition and the imaginative power to shape disparate components into a unified whole ([5]).
- The composer should picture to himself the exact harmonic formation of the piece he intends to orchestrate.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - This is perhaps the reason why it now takes me three days to orchestrate a thing that I could formerly have finished in one.”
— from The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky by Modest Chaikovskii - But the essence of the power of System X was being able to use its own resources to orchestrate widespread pandemonium quickly and quietly.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - On some occasions, artillery commanders became tempted to orchestrate all of this killing power in one mighty concentration.
— from The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa by Joseph H. Alexander - To orchestrate is to create, and this is something which cannot be taught.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
