It challenges you to think about the orchestra.The book that set the standard for orchestration texts., The Study of Orchestration, Samuel Adler, 659. He wrote the book by default, because the books they were using didn’t actually talk about orchestration – just instrumentation. Orchestration is treated as a 2nd composition. He always completes his short score before orchestrating. You have delete on the computer and you have repeat on the computer, and much of the minimal music is not as good as Philip Glass, or any of the great composers of minimal music.
I can tell, by looking at a score, whether that composer has composed with the computer. He can’t have the baby but he can help along.Īlways try to live into the music or style that the student is writing. The composition teacher is like a midwife. He said “Somethings wrong,” so something must be wrong, and you tried very hard to correct it. And instead of, like Hindemith putting the right chord, he would say, “Go home and do it.” And you learned more by worrying.
He would show you – identify some kind of weakness, or mistake, or wrong chord, or something like that. He was the best teacher because he would point out there was something wrong with your piece, but he wouldn’t tell you exactly what. I wrote like a little Paul Hindemith for a very long time. You had to write a new piece for every single lesson. He wasn’t the best teacher because he taught by sarcasm. The American’s knew how to orchestrate better than anybody. Let the orchestra choirs sound so that it doesn’t all sound like a big mish-mosh. What are characteristics of good Orchestration? Listen to and read a much music as possible.Get familiar with the main corpus of music that has been created, as far back as medieval times.Get a teacher as early as possible – this subject is too complicated and too complex to learn completely on your own.This includes the study of harmony, counterpoint, and analysis, as well as your instrument. Why the composition teacher is like a midwife.Ĭlick Here to go to Jon’s Patreon page, and support the podcast!.Why you should copy great composers like Bach and Hindemith.Golden nuggets from some of the greatest teachers and composers of the twentieth century.Samuel Adler’s thoughts on getting published when you’re young.The most beneficial activities for composers learning orchestration.In Episode 12 of the Art of Composing Podcast, I talk to Samuel Adler, author of one of the most popular books on orchestration, The Study of Orchestration. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Stitcher | RSS | More Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
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