Meanings
adjectiveinstrumentarial (not comparable)
- not comparableOf 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
By surface analysis, instrument + -arial.
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