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orchestration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orchestration \Or`ches*tra"tion\, n. (Mus.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, from French orchestration or else a native noun of action from orchestrate.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra 2 (context countable English) a composition that has been orchestrated 3 (context uncountable English) the control of diverse elements
WordNet
n. an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band
the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments [syn: instrumentation]
an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect; "the skillful orchestration of his political campaign"
Wikipedia
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. For example, a work for solo piano could be adapted and orchestrated so that an orchestra could perform the piece. Only gradually over the course of music history did orchestration come to be regarded as a compositional art in itself. In classical music, most composers write the melody, chord progression and musical form for a piece and, then, if they want the piece to be played by an orchestra, they orchestrate the piece themselves. In musical theatre, however, the composer typically writes the melodies and then hires a professional arranger or orchestrator to devise the parts for the pit orchestra to play.
Orchestration is the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex computer systems, middleware and services.
It is often discussed as having an inherent intelligence or even implicitly autonomic control, but those are largely aspirations or analogies rather than technical descriptions. In reality, orchestration is largely the effect of automation or systems deploying elements of control theory.
This usage of orchestration is often discussed in the context of service-oriented architecture, virtualization, provisioning, converged infrastructure and dynamic datacenter topics. Orchestration in this sense is about aligning the business request with the applications, data, and infrastructure. It defines the policies and service levels through automated workflows, provisioning, and change management. This creates an application-aligned infrastructure that can be scaled up or down based on the needs of each application. Orchestration also provides centralized management of the resource pool, including billing, metering, and chargeback for consumption. For example, orchestration reduces the time and effort for deploying multiple instances of a single application. And as the requirement for more resources or a new application is triggered, automated tools now can perform tasks which, previously, could only be done by multiple administrators operating on their individual pieces of the physical stack.
A somewhat different usage relates to the process of coordinating an exchange of information through web service interactions. (See also service-oriented architecture, and web service choreography.) Applications which decouple the orchestration layer from the service layer are sometimes called agile applications.
A distinction is often made between orchestration (a local view from the perspective of one participant) and choreography (coordination from a global multi-participant perspective, albeit without a central controller).
''' Orchestration and choreography in the context of cloud computing: '''
Cloud computing introduces more-granular and specific meanings of these terms: "workflows" and "processes" are used in different domains. At one level, there are inter-company business processes, and at another level there are processes to get the wide area network ("the cloud") operational. To keep matters simple, we will define "an orchestrator" as: the entity that manages complex cross-domain (system, enterprise, firewall) processes, and that handles exceptions. Since an orchestrator is valuable in the fulfillment, assurance as well as billing processes, service-aware incarnations of an orchestrator should be capable of adjustments based on feedback from monitoring tools. At the most basic level, an orchestrator is a human.
Thus, the main difference between a workflow "automation" and an "orchestration" (in the context of cloud computing), is that workflows are processed and completed as processes within a single domain for automation purposes, whereas orchestration includes a workflow and provides a directed action towards larger goals and objectives. In this context, and with the overall aim to achieve specific goals and objectives (described through quality of service parameters), for example, meet application performance goals using minimized cost and maximize application performance within budget constraints, cloud management solutions also encompass frameworks for workflow mapping and management.
Cloud service orchestration therefore is the:
- Composing of architecture, tools and processes used by humans to deliver a defined Service.
- Stitching of software and hardware components together to deliver a defined Service.
- Connecting and Automating of workflows when applicable to deliver a defined Service.
Orchestration is critical in the delivery of cloud services because:
- Cloud services are intended to scale-up arbitrarily and dynamically, without requiring direct human intervention to do so.
- Cloud service delivery includes fulfillment assurance and billing.
- Cloud services delivery entails workflows in various technical and business domains.
Usage examples of "orchestration".
I thought of all the experimental, heuristic, and botched compositions that kept him company over long years, and how, whatever the orchestration, form, choice of language, all pieces amounted to love songs, not just to a lost woman, but to a world whose pattern he could not help wanting to save.
It was hard to follow them very far: the surrounding night crowded in on his ears with its competing antiphony of innumerable frogs and insects and small beasts of unimaginable variety, a background orchestration that you could forget entirely until you wanted to listen for something else and then it seemed to swell up into deafening volume.
They use the words counterpoint, fugue, symphony, oratorio, polyphony, the mode of Beethoven, the orchestration of Mahler, but their essential point is that, like a musician, the novelist seized time and reconstructed it according to his own laws, which were very close to those of orchestral music.
There have been two great virtuosi in orchestration, during this century, who have exercised as great an influence in this complicated and elaborate department, as the others mentioned have upon their own solo instruments.
Master of Revels, his business the orchestration of the public ceremonies and entertainments of the Endarkened Court.
He tried to catch sight of her feet, dreading to imagine their damaged state, knowing that every step she took must be agonising, but she was already off and away, pounding across the floor to the brassy orchestrations.
In less than an hour the astonishing array of tropical life-forms, the knitted texture of an organic art, was reduced to the numbing reiteration of your own plodding feet, the complex orchestration of animal and insect sound condensed to the chuffing of your own breath in your own sea-throbbing ear.
He exulted in the pyrotechnical complexities of Berlioz and Wagner, the rich orchestrations of Brahms and Rachmaninoff, the lyricism of Dvorak and Mendelssohn, the tonal adventurism of Ravel and Debussy, and fused them into a style all his own.
That final period of expansion is called by the Ekhat themselves, depending on which of the factions is speaking, either the Melodious Epoch, the Discordance, or by a phrase which is difficult to translate but might loosely be called the Absent Orchestration of Right Harmony.
Under the orchestration of the ADL, attacks on the Patriot/Militia movement continued for months, eventhough there was no documentable proof of the suspects' connections to the militias, or the militias' connection to the bombing.
As he spoke, he unlocked the inner secret of it to Farro, so that what before had been a formal study became an orchestration, with every cell another note.
Around Annath Gothallamor, rearward of Morragan's knights, unseelie wights moved within a pitchy darkness they had gathered about themselves like veils of black muslin, from which issued howls and laughter, screams and sobbing, sudden frenzied knockings and threatening silences: an orchestration realized from fevered dreams.
They were beyond the range of human hearing, to be sure, but oscilloscopic instruments were able to detect every note, every variation, every subtle nuance of the orchestrations.