An arrangement of a composition for some other
   instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as
   the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an
   orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an
   arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a
   more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument
   of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's
   transcriptions of songs by Schubert.