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A short Analysis of Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso with the concepts of Functional Orchestration

Functional orchestration has basically four objectives: i. Isolation and verbalization of universal principles on the composition of timbres. ii. Development of general functions to categorize different operations on timbre. iii. Extension of the understanding of the instrumentation. iv. Identification, categorization and improvement of these instrumental functions and their mechanisms in relationship with their perceptual effects.

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