Composing for Orchestra – Tips and Tricks
Composing for Orchestra – Tips and Tricks, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 3.9, with 35 lectures, based on 27 reviews, and has 232 subscribers.
You will learn about Compositional ideas, methods, terminology, active listening, mindsets, orchestration tips This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate composers who have already attempted to compose and need tips It is particularly useful for Intermediate composers who have already attempted to compose and need tips.
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Summary
Title: Composing for Orchestra – Tips and Tricks
Price: $39.99
Average Rating: 3.9
Number of Lectures: 35
Number of Published Lectures: 35
Number of Curriculum Items: 35
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 35
Original Price: €89.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- Compositional ideas, methods, terminology, active listening, mindsets, orchestration tips
Who Should Attend
- Intermediate composers who have already attempted to compose and need tips
Target Audiences
- Intermediate composers who have already attempted to compose and need tips
This course gives you an outline of some of the things you should be watching out for as a composer. Over the years, I’ve noticed that a lot of my students overlook many things that should be integral to the creation process. Some of these are simple ideas, yet easily overlooked. I want to help you to gain more insight in what to look for to help you avoid these same traps. Composition can seem like something huge to take on, but is only as difficult as you make it. I want to help change that frame of mind by offering a series of insights that will help composition, and music in general, to become something much more interesting, much simpler, and hopefully much more natural in terms of your approach to composition. I have had a long career as a music teacher, composer and musician and would like to share my ideas with you. We will look at topics such as:
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How to ‘think’ like a composer
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Orchestration
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Vertical versus Linear Thinking
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Voice Leading
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Active listening
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Articulation
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Foreground and Background material
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Dynamics
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Composition maps
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Composing with random notes
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Examples from the repertoire
With these and other topics, I want to help you focus on the more important aspects of composition. Some of the ideas may seem abstract, but this is just to get you ‘thinking outside the box’. This course will notteach you how to compose. That’s not the purpose. Anyone with a basic idea of music theory could, theoretically, compose. The object here is to give you some insight into best practice and to try to establish your own compositional voice. Combining critical listening with score study can also help you achieve this, once you know whatto listen for, and whatto watch for in the score. There are some quite technical details in the course, but I deliberately try to avoid these where possible. There are many courses that can teach this and many, many books on the subject. This course is more about using the tools of music in combination with putting yourself into a composing frame of mind, using your own experiences to draw from. It’s also about how your mindset can help you to achieve your goals. I hope you will join me here and get some new perspectives on composition. It’s a wonderful art – but it’s easier than you may think if you just start with the right information…
Lawrence O’Donnell December 2020
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: 2. How to think like a composer
Lecture 3: 3. Vertical versus Linear Thinking
Lecture 4: 4. Voice Leading
Lecture 5: 5. Study the Repertoire!
Lecture 6: 6. Paying attention to detail…
Chapter 2: You are the Creator
Lecture 1: 7. You are the creator
Lecture 2: 8. All ideas stem from informed knowledge
Lecture 3: 9. Copy form and structure – not the past masters
Chapter 3: Compositional Techniques 1
Lecture 1: 10. Chords versus Lines
Lecture 2: 11. Which method is better?
Lecture 3: 12. How many layers should you use when orchestrating?
Lecture 4: 13. Creating a melodic outline.
Chapter 4: Studying the Repertoire in detail
Lecture 1: 14. Listening – the BEST approach
Lecture 2: 15. Score Study – what stands out?
Lecture 3: 16. Who takes the melody?
Lecture 4: 17. How does the background support the melody?
Chapter 5: 18. The most important and most overlooked tools
Lecture 1: 18. Dynamics – a composers best friend
Lecture 2: 19. Orchestration – who does what?
Lecture 3: 20. Articulations
Lecture 4: 21. Blending instruments
Chapter 6: Examples from the repertoire
Lecture 1: 22. Overview of examples and Elgars Enigma Variations part 1 – theme
Lecture 2: 23. Enigma Variations part 2 – Variation 1
Lecture 3: 24. Enigma Variations part 3 – Variation 5
Lecture 4: 25. Beethoven's 5th Symphony – 1st Movement
Lecture 5: 26. Beethoven's 5th – 3rd Movement
Lecture 6: 27. Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (Intro and Augeries)
Lecture 7: 28. Arvo Part – Cantus in memorium of Benjamin Britten
Chapter 7: How do you get your ideas onto the page?
Lecture 1: 29. How do you get your ideas onto the page?
Lecture 2: 30. Composition Map 1
Lecture 3: 31. Composition Map 2
Lecture 4: 33. Composition Map Examples
Lecture 5: 34. Composing with random notes!
Chapter 8: What's next? (Course Completion)
Lecture 1: 34. So what's next??
Lecture 2: 35. Thank you!
Instructors
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Lawrence O'Donnell
Music Teacher at Cork Academy of Music, Composer, Musician
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