Orchestration
Reading an Orchestral Score: Layout and a Method for First Reads
An orchestral score stacks every part on one page. This covers the standard order of the families, the brackets and clefs, and a first-read method.
The archive
Articles
100 pieces on how music is built and how it is written down — with playable examples, tables you can check, and no filler.
♮ intro · ♯♯ intermediate · ♯♯♯♯ advanced — like key signatures, more marks means more to hold in mind
Orchestration
Transposing Instruments Explained: Written and Sounding Pitch
A transposing instrument sounds a different pitch from the one on the page. The intervals for common instruments, and how to transpose a part.
Orchestration
Brass Choir Voicing: Spacing, Balance and Dynamics
Score for trumpets, horns, trombones and tuba: open vs close voicing, dynamic balance, chorale style and fanfare writing.
Orchestration
String Bowing and Articulation: A Practical Arranger Guide
Legato, detache, spiccato, staccato, martelé: what each bowing sounds like, how to mark it, and writing playable string parts.
Orchestration
Woodwind Doubling and Balance in Orchestral Writing
Which woodwind doublings blend and which stick out: unisons, octaves, registers, dynamics, and practical balance.
Orchestration
Instrument Ranges for Arrangers: Playable, Comfortable, Usable
A playable range and a usable register are different facts. Transposition arithmetic, endurance, doubling, and the notes that are another instrument.
Orchestration
Voicing a String Quartet: Registers, Doublings, Weight
The quartet is four registers, not four violins. What each instrument can sustain, where the texture muddies, and which double stops lie under the hand.
The ebook
Music Theory: the site as a book
The site's working library as a structured ebook: intervals, keys, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, form, tuning, orchestration and the history behind them.
- 78 pages
- PDF format
- $2.87
- By The musics.name project
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