J. Anthony Allen covers brass instruments with mutes and extended techniques, percussion from timpani to drum kits, vocal writing for soloists and choirs, and less common instruments like guitar and harp. Learn notation, breathing considerations for singers, and how to write effectively for each family.
All right, everyone, welcome to Orchestration Part two. In this class, we're going to pick up where we left off. The first class, we worked on reading scores, dealing with scores, parts, general working with an orchestra. And then we dove deep into strings and then deep into winds. In this class, we're going to start off by going deep into brass. So we're going to talk about how brass instruments work. And then we're going to go into each instrument in the brass family. We're going to start with the horns or the French horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas. And then we're going to work on special techniques of all of them mutes, a couple other weird things that they can do if you want them to. Then we're going to go into percussion. We're going to talk about pitched and unpitched percussion, the weird case of the timpani, rolls, strokes, mallets, bowing. Yes, you can bow percussion. And weird notation things. And eventually working with a drum kit within an orchestra. Then we'll talk about the voice. We'll talk about the voice both in relationship to working in an orchestra and working in a choir. So notation, symbols, lyrics, breathing. And then we'll also talk about each individual instrument, so to speak. So the soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and all of the ranges that are in between those. And then the category of everything else, we're going to talk about guitars, other fretted instruments, the harp, which is very difficult to write for, the piano, the accordion, and some general thoughts on how kind of writing for anything works. So we're gonna wrap up the instrumentation portion in this chunk. So we're gonna get through all of the orchestra instruments, plus a couple more. So this will clear the path for us to jump heavy into Orchestration in Part three. Three. So let's dive in and let's learn how all of these instruments work.
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