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instrumentarial

instrumentarial adjective: of or relating to an instrumentarium.

Adjective

instrumentarial (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an instrumentarium.
    • Grisey being regarded as one of the originators of spectral thinking, his major work Vortex is canonic - it directly influenced Zwischen; both pieces require instruments to be tuned to spectral partials; neither is full-blown "instrumentarial".2024, Toby Young, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Composition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209

Origin of instrumentarial

By surface analysis, instrument + -arial.

Questions about instrumentarial

What does instrumentarial mean?
Instrumentarial means of or relating to an instrumentarium.
What part of speech is instrumentarial?
Instrumentarial is an adjective.

Words near instrumentarial in the dictionary

  1. instrumentalizing
  2. instrumentally
  3. instrumentalness
  4. instrumentals
  5. instrumentaria
  6. instrumentarial
  7. instrumentarium
  8. instrumentary
  9. instrumentation
  10. instrumentational
  11. instrumentations

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