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Orchestration Journey 3 – Strings – Elgar’s Nimrod
The string section is the most used groups in the orchestra. For one thing, they don’t need to rest an embouchure, and the expressive quality of the strings is versatile so they get a lot of play time. If the look of 20 staves on a page all at once feels daunting to you thenContinue reading “Orchestration Journey 3 – Strings – Elgar’s Nimrod”
Orchestration Journey 2 – Score Reading
After doing a lot of deep listening, the next step to familiarizing yourself with the orchestral instrumental palette is to read. Find scores of works you can listen to and read along with. I’ve found a wealth of free digital scores at these two sites: IMSLP , free-scores IMSLP has a ton of public domainContinue reading “Orchestration Journey 2 – Score Reading”
Orchestration Journey – 1 Listen to the Instruments
Learn from listening, that’s the most basic principle in a musical education: listen. Knowing how each instrument sounds is imperative to orchestration. As you listen to recordings, start identifying what instruments you hear. On a basic level get the sounds split into the major instrument families, is it a wind? is it a string? FromContinue reading “Orchestration Journey – 1 Listen to the Instruments”
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