The study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.
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Instrument Register tone and quality chart
I have been looking for some time now, for a chart of all the different register tone qualities of all the instruments played in an orchestra. If you have a hard time understanding what I mean by ...
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Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum
Empirically, mainly watching Stephen Malinovwski's (smalin) music visualization videos on YouTube, I have noticed that several instruments playing together sound better when they roughly cover the ...
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How many voices do violins usually play in modern orchestral music
I've been into arranging and composing for orchestral music for a few years now, however, my music is usually fully computer-rendered (ewql), so I don't have any practical limits of how many ...
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What is the convention for splitting 4 parts of the same instrument in a score?
I'm orchestrating a piece and distributing a chord among 4 bassoons.
If I were writing the French Horn part, I'd know one of the common practices would be to have two staves: one for Horns 1 and 3, ...
