Arrangement captures the compositional choice of which instrumental and vocal forces a song is scored for: orchestral writing, a string or brass or woodwind section, Indian-classical instrumentation, or a choir. Derived from each track's performance and personnel credits.
The 'Brass' instrument family first surfaces in 1966 and then recurs on 26 songs through 1970; it appears on no earlier Beatles record.
| # | Value | Songs | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guitars Generic guitar – unspecified between acoustic and electric. | 206 | 46.8% |
| 2 | Keyboards Umbrella for the keyboard family: piano, organ, harpsichord, mellotron and the rest. | 127 | 28.9% |
| 3 | String Beatles songs with a scored string section (violins, violas, cellos, double bass) – from the Yesterday quartet to full orchestral strings. | 28 | 6.4% |
| 4 | Brass Beatles songs with a brass arrangement – trumpets, trombones, French horn, tuba and the like. | 26 | 5.9% |
| 5 | Woodwind Beatles songs with a woodwind arrangement – flutes, clarinets, oboe, bassoon, saxophones and related reeds and pipes. | 22 | 5.0% |
| 6 | Orchestral Beatles songs scored for a full or partial orchestra – a string section combined with brass and/or woodwind, or an explicit orchestral overdub. | 16 | 3.6% |
| 7 | Indian Beatles songs arranged with Indian classical instruments – sitar, tabla, tambura, swarmandal, dilruba and the like. | 10 | 2.3% |
| 8 | Choral Beatles songs with a choir or scored choral voices. | 5 | 1.1% |
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The Beatles: Complete Scores
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