Posts from the ‘Orchestration’ Category
As mentioned in the article “Introduction to Orchestration”, the brass section came to the fore during the Romantic period and Beethoven with the development of the valve which allowed chromaticism. Before this, the brass instruments relied on the overtone series and were mainly used as a textural device rather than one for carrying melody. The [...]
Where the string choir has been described as having a homogeneous sound across its range of instruments, the woodwind has the most diverse, heterogeneous collection of instruments. There are several classifications of the woodwind instruments; by their family, the kind of reed they use, their pipe shape, and whether they are transposing instruments. The following [...]
Orchestral Instrumentation: Strings The string section is composed of four instrument sections. The orchestral sections are often referred to as choirs stemming from the organisation of the sounds, or rather the pitch range, of the different sections – from higher to lower: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. The equivalent sections of the strings are divided [...]
A Brief Guide To The Modern Orchestra History The orchestra as you see and hear it today has quite a history behind it; it has evolved, grown, and shrunk over time according to advancement in both technology and music. In the grand scheme of music and it’s history, the establishment of the western orchestral ensemble [...]
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Introduction to Orchestration The term “orchestration” can be defined as a description of the general way in which a harmony is played, or more specifically, the instrumentation used for a piece of music. More commonly, orchestration is understood to be the composition, transcription or arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra. The latter definition [...]
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