Professional Orchestration Volume 2A: The 2nd Key
Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section: Strings
500 pages, Illustrated, Audio Package w/Naxos Music Library included
Shipping Schedule
Spiral Bound Edition, October 15, 2006
Hardback Library Edition, October 15, 2006
Color PDF Edition, November 2006
Book/Naxos Music Library, Ill., 500 pgs, $49.95
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Class Use
Because of the techniques covered, along with the inclusion of the Naxos Music Library, Professional Orchestration, Volume 2A, Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section: Strings is a must supplement for any orchestration class using other texts to cover instrumentation issues.
With Volume 2, Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section, we now enter the true study of orchestration because starting here, the student has organized in one place the combinations and devices used in concert and commercial writing. In the field, a major weakness in student writing is that the composition is over weighted in the middle register. Following Volume 1’s approach, all devices and combinations are meticulously organized by the low, medium, high and very high registers, with, in many cases, multiple full page/full score examples demonstrating each technique.
What the student sees, the student hears. What you hear, you learn in your inner ear so that when you hear the device in the musical imagination, you know what it is and how to write for it.
Tapping Technology
Each technique covered in the printed edition is highlighted with a light gray screen. But with the PDF edition, color is used to highlight these techniques. Combined with the Naxos Music Library, and you have a completely portable, value-priced training package only available from Alexander Publishing.
Naxos Music Library
Specific playlists are setup to cover all the musical examples used in Volume 2. Some of the works studied include Carnival of the Animals, Don Juan, Ein Heldenlaben, The Enigma Variations, The Firebird, Isle of the Dead, Mahler Symphony #1, On the Steppes of Central Asia, The Planets, and more.
Please note
Only one (1) Naxos Music Library subscription per student.
What’s Covered
- 56 different combinations within the string ensemble are examined with full page/full score examples)
- each technique meticulously researched showing its use in the low, medium, high and very high registers so that the student knows what the device sounds like in each register</li>
- examples by modern composers including Chabrier, Debussy, Dukas, Elgar, Enesco, Holst, Ravel, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern and others
- recording insights for electronic orchestration
- Flowing lines
- Counterlines
- And much more...
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRATION VOLUME 2A:
UNISON
Violins 1 + Violins 2
Violins + Violas
Violins + Cellos
Violas + Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas + Cellos
TWO-PARTS
Violins 1 – Violins 2
Violins – Violas
Violins – Cellos
Violas – Cellos
Cellos – Basses
Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Violas
Violins 1 + Violins 2 - Cellos
Violins 1 – Violins 2 + Violas
Violas + Cellos – Basses
Violas – Cellos + Basses
Violins – Violas + Cellos
Violins 1 – Violins 2 + Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Violas + Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos + Basses
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas + Cellos - Basses
Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + Violas
Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + Cellos
THREE-PARTS
Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Violas – Cellos
Violins 1 + Violas – Cellos – Basses
Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos – Basses
Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas
Violins – Violas – Cellos
Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + ½ Violas – ½ Violas + Cellos
Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas + Cellos
Violins 1 – Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos
Violas – Cellos – Basses
Violins + Violins 2 – Violas + Cellos – Basses
Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas + ½ Cellos
Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Cellos – Basses
FOUR-PARTS
Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas – Cellos
Violins 1 – Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos – Basses
FIVE-PARTS
Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas – Cellos – Basses
DIVISI IN OCTAVES
Violins 1 Divisi in Octaves
Violas Divisi in Octaves
Cellos Divisi in Octaves
Basses Divisi in Octaves
DIVISI IN INTERVALS
Violins 1 & Violins 2 in 3rds
Violas Divisi in 3rds
Cellos Divisi in 3rds
Violins 1 or Violins 2 Divisi in 6ths
Violas Divisi in 6ths
SPECIAL COMBINATIONS
Violas in 6ths Doubled by Cellos in 6ths
Violas in 3rds Doubled by Cellos in 3rds
Violins 1 & Violins 2 in 3rds Doubled an Octave Below With Violas & Cellos in 3rds
Violins 1 Divisi in 3rds – Violins 2 Divisi in 3rds an Octave Below
Violins 1 & Violins 2 in 3rds with Violas Doubling Violins 1 an Octave Below
Violins & Violas in 3rds
Violins & Violas in 6ths
Violins Divisi in 3rds with Violas Divisi in 3rds an Octave Below
Violins 1 Divisi in 3rds – Violins 2 Divisi in 3rds – Violas Divisi in 3rds
FLOWING PASSAGES
COUNTERLINE
