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it means reduce the harmony (ie: remove any doublings) and counterpoint to the strict minimum that IS your piece. If it's 3-part counterpoint, then it should have 3 notes. if it's 5 part harmony then it should have 5 notes...
Imagine that you are doing the opposite of what it is we do when we set a Bach Chorale... instead of taking the original 4 voices of the Bach and enlarging them to a full symphony, take your music for 8-12 instruments and reduce it to its componant parts.
Obviously if the texture shifts from 3 to 5 parts over a few measures, then your "reduction" will also shift from 3 to 5 parts. But it won't include any octave doublings.
That way, you will be actually orchestrating from "scratch"... setting lines and harmony as though it were a new piece.
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