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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Can you orchestrate Chris? posted by Timbo in Oz on May 21, 2017 at 02:15:30:
I did have an orchestration course in college. It was actually a lot of fun. The text we used was Walter Piston's book, and our final was to orchestrate a short piece of our own choosing (although the teacher had to approve it) which we were then able to hear played by the student orchestra - this was just as music notation on computers was beginning to be developed and it wasn't available to us. So there was a lot of tedious, manual copying of parts! I chose a song by Liszt (the ONLY one he ever set in English!), "Go Not, Happy Day", to a text by Tennyson. (BTW, that's an interesting story in itself: Liszt's effort was part of a birthday celebration for Tennyson where a dozen or so composers set the same text (i.e., "Go not, happy day"), including Liszt and also Britten's teacher, Frank Bridge.)Speaking of Richard Strauss, his revision of Berlioz' book on orchestration was (and is) available, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov's book on orchestration, wherein he (very modestly!) used examples only from his own works!
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