Only Alexander Publishing Has Writing For Strings
Writing For Strings 4th Edition
30 Lessons (200 pages)
String Positions Booklet For All Strings
18 PDF’ed scores (500+ pages)
QuickTime Videos of Bowings
Mini-audio seminars for selected lessons
Audio of students playing the full string ranges for each instrument
Price: $159.00
Click to order
Required Text: Professional Orchestration Volume 1 w/Naxos Music Library
Suggested Text: Professional Orchestration Volume 2A, Orchestrating the Melody With Strings
Overview
The purpose of Writing For Strings 4th Edition Level 1 is to teach you in detail how to write for real strings and how to make sampled strings sound live. It’s for composers and songwriters (including those not very strong in reading music) who want to go to the next step. This completely revised version comes with new 4-color graphics and a more gracious, easy-to-read layout that looks as good on screen as it does printed.
Writing For Strings is divided into two parts, balanced between live orchestral and sample libraries. By course end, you should have a very competent demo reel (aka show reel) of your work. Techniques can be applied to any style. Please listen to the provided podcasts for detail on what’s taught.
Comes With
- 30 lessons (See Contents Tab for complete description) now with 4-color graphics
- CD with QuickTime videos demonstrating string bowings courtesy Dr. Michael Hopkins, University of Vermont.
- New! Separate String Positions booklet in 4-color for Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass
- Expanded! 18 study scores – On print-out, over 500 pages of scores.
- Debussy’s Jeux de vagues (with complete orchestral MIDI file)
- Holst’s Jupiter from The Planets (with complete orchestral MIDI file)
- Debussy String Quartet 1 st Movement
- Mozart String Quartet in A Major (complete)
- Mozart String Quartet in D Major (complete)
- Mozart String Quartet in G Major (complete)
- Mozart String Quintet in Eb Major (complete)
- Mozart Symphony #1, The Jupiter
- Ravel, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Malaguena
- Ravel, Mother Goose Suite, Laideronnette
- Ravel, Mother Goose Suite, Petit Pouchet
- Ravel, Mother Goose Suite, Le Jardin Feerique
- Resphigi, Fountains of Rome, Trevi
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, 2 nd Movement
- Stravinsky, Petrushka, 1 st Movement
- Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Dance of the Young Maidens
- Tchaikovsky, Symphony #4, Scherzo
- Complete playlist available on the Naxos Music Library that's packaged with the required text Professional Orchestration.
- BONUS! EXTRA playlists on Naxos Music Library for additional string pieces and 40 hours of classic film scores
- Download to your hard drive MP3s of all the pieces through our affiliate relationship with eMusic.
- Downloadable live recordings of 15 of the 18 scores as performed by student orchestras.
- Complete “MIDI orchestration” master class of Debussy's Jeux de vagues (from La Mer) and Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity from The Plantets, by British Composer Andrew Blaney including Andy's MIDI files of both works, copy of the orchestral score, and an MP3 of the final recording for a comparison to a “live” recording. Complete orchestral versions available in the Naxos Music Library.
- Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices Master Classes for MIDI Editing: Text and Excel spread sheet lists all the major devices and marks those for Jeux de vagues with open space for the Planets, and a template for other works you want to study.
- New! MINI-Audio Seminars added to selected lessons.
- Audio files of student string ensemble performing string ranges in the low, medium, high and very high ranges.
- MIDI files of major examples
Summary Table of Contents
NOTE: Every Lesson has a playlist/listening assignment using the Naxos Music Library. Each listening assignment is listed in the individual lessons and on a playlist e-mailed to you.
Materials Review – Audio Seminar
How You Really Learn Orchestration – Audio Seminar
Introduction – Text
Lesson 1: Violins, Text Audio Seminar, String Positions Booklet
Lesson 2: Violas, Text and Audio Seminar, String Positions Booklet
Lesson 3: Cellos, Text and Audio Seminar, String Positions Booklet
Lesson 4: Basses, Text and Audio Seminar, String Positions Booklet
Lesson 5: Double Stops: Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 6: Triplet Stops, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 7: Quadruple Stops, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 8: Arpeggios From Stops, Text only
Lesson 9: Trills & Fingered Tremolos, Text only
Lesson 10: Bowings, Text and Fingered Tremolos
Lesson 11: Tremolo, Text only
Lesson 12: Pizzicato, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 13: Divisi, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 14: Recording Sampled Strings, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 15: Harmonic Figuration Part 1: Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 16: Harmonic Figuration Part 2: Text only
Lesson 17: Harmonic Figuration Part 3: Text only
Lesson 18: Harmonic Figuration Part 4: Text only
Lesson 19: Harmonic Figuration Part 5: Text only
Lesson 20: Harmonic Figuration Part 6: Text only
Lesson 21: Harmonic Figuration Part 7: Text only
Lesson 22: Harmonic Figuration Part 8: Text only
Lesson 23: Harmonic Figuration Part 9: Text only
Lesson 24: Inserting 8 th Rests For Motion, Text only
Lesson 25: Inserting 8 th Triplet Rests For Motion, Text only
Lesson 26: Inserting 16 th Rests For Motion, Text only
Lesson 27: Inserting 16 th Triplet Rests For Motion, Text only
Lesson 28: Score Reduction, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 29: The Music Never Lies, Text and Audio Seminar
Lesson 30: Jeux de vagues, Jupiter, and the Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices, Text, Excel spreadsheets, Audio Seminar
