instrumentation

Example Sentences

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She retains the delicacy of the instrumentation, but introduces a gorgeous complexity that, in someone else’s hands, would be too much, but here, simply enhances the vocal delivery.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

"Without advances in technology and investment in specialized instrumentation, we would have never made this discovery."

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

Yet they were also influential in pushing reggae into modernity, using digital instrumentation on Chaka Demus & Pliers’ 1993 smash “Murder She Wrote” and grafting their textures into the Fugees’ bestselling LP “The Score.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

There weren’t any backup singers or elaborate instrumentation; just the gentle plinkity-plank of a piano.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar