Instrumental Thinking – Part I

Published 3/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.75 GB | Duration: 2h 52m

Instrumental Presentations and Possibilities

What you’ll learn
We handle tools to you how to treat simple lines into instrumental parts for different instrument families.
We deal with each characteristic of each instrument family and experience its implications into varied writing.
We make difference between treatment of a single string instrument and instrument string groups.
This study offers a deeper preparation into the art of orchestration.
Additional information about playing techniques, notation and ranges are incorporated as well.

Requirements
Basic knowledge of music theory is required.

Description
This course is an excellent preliminary study, well suited as a preparation for Dr. . Swerts’ Orchestration Course, "The Five Archetypes of Orchestration," Parts I, II, and III-V will follow later. Here, though, with only one single folk song as a model, various instrumental presentations, possibilities, and techniques will be explained and demonstrated, modifying the original model into a new musical context as a consequence of the chosen instrument. In this first part, all the families of the orchestra will be presented and discussed one by one. In the second part, we will proceed with instrumental combinations of the same families, but as duos, trios, and quartets, and various treatments of the string orchestra as well. Moreover, each model will each time rely on the original model of the folksong; as such, you will notice the immense difference in textures due to the choice of different instrument combinations. Some famous examples from the orchestral literature are also applied where necessary and possible. After completing both courses (Instrumental Thinking Parts I and II), you will have a much clearer idea of the characteristics of each instrument type, which will allow you to go deeper into the basic elements of orchestration, as illustrated much more in Dr. Swerts course mentioned above. There, we go deeper into the different textures, where many combinations will be explained via the canon of Western orchestral literature and with assignments and worksheets.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Commentaries upon the Folksong ‘There sat a snow-white bird’

Section 2: The Woodwind Instruments

Lecture 3 The Piccolo

Lecture 4 The Flute

Lecture 5 The Alto Flute in G

Lecture 6 The Oboe

Lecture 7 The English Horn

Lecture 8 The Clarinet

Lecture 9 The Bass Clarinet

Lecture 10 The Bassoon

Lecture 11 The Double Bassoon

Section 3: The Brass Instruments

Lecture 12 The Trumpet

Lecture 13 The French Horn

Lecture 14 The Trombone

Lecture 15 The Tuba

Section 4: The Percussion Instruments and the Harp

Lecture 16 Glockenspiel and Tubular Bells

Lecture 17 Vibraphone and Marimba

Lecture 18 Timpani

Lecture 19 The Harp

Section 5: The String Instruments

Lecture 20 Violin and Violin Section

Lecture 21 The Viola and the Viola Section

Lecture 22 The Violoncello and the Cello Section

Lecture 23 The Double Bass and the Double Bass Section

Section 6: Preview Part II

Lecture 24 Part II Preview

This course is intended both for amateur and professional musicians, music students, performers, composers and conductors. It tend to offer deeper musical insights into the mechanism of composition and music.

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