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Instrumentation is the study and practice of writing Music for a Musical Instrument .

Writing for a specific instrument requires the ability to take into account the special properties of that instrument such as the following:
  • the Pitch , Timbre and Dynamic range of the instrument and available tones in these ranges

  • application of Chord s or other multiple tones

  • certain kinds of passages can be especially easy or difficult to play

  • playing techniques such as constraints of breathing, fingering, etc.

  • special effects, such as Harmonic s, clicks, Pizzicato , Glissandi and so on

  • Notation conventions for the instrument.


See Orchestration for a description of the difference between instrumentation, orchestration and Arrangement .