instrumentarial

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, instrument +‎ -arial.

Adjective

instrumentarial (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an instrumentarium.
    • 2024, Toby Young, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Composition[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209:
      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".