Professional Orchestration Volume 2A:
Orchestrating the Melody Within The String Section
By Peter Lawrence Alexander
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About Volume 2A, Orchestrating the Melody Within the String Section - Imagine learning the scoring techniques creating the "Hollywood Sound" usually known by only a few top professional film orchestrators and composers. Now for the very first time, starting with Professional Orchestration™, Volume 2A, Orchestrating the Melody Within the String Section, the hidden doors on the techniques you've been hearing in the scores of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and others for years, are, at last, finally open. Thus, after months of painstaking research, the "secret formulas" are secret no more. Loaded with references from 35 works in a large, easy-to-read, full page/full score format (that you can MIDI mock-up at your leisure) are 63 techniques referenced meticulously in the low, medium, high and very high registers which are matched to the optional MP3 audio package where the excerpts are heard in the musical context of the scores.
 

For fast referencing, the techniques are grouped into eight categories: Unisons, Two-Parts, Three-Parts, Four-Parts, Five-Parts, Divisi in Octaves, Divisi in Intervals, and Special Combinations.

 

Each technique has a brief commentary: This starts you off on identifying the technique and what else is happening within the score.

There are electronic scoring insights: All the major notation programs (Finale, Notion, Sibelius) now have orchestral sound packages that let you key in and hear your music played back. Major sequencing programs (Cubase, Digital Performer, Logic and Sonar) have complete notation elements which also work with specialized orchestral libraries. Electronic scoring (also called MIDI mock-ups) is here to stay. Only Professional Orchestration gives you the scoring insights needed to help your electronic orchestrations sound more real, regardless of which library you use.

You've been waiting for such a long time to learn and apply all these wonderful techniques. Why wait any longer?
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS: PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRATION VOLUME 2A:

Orchestrating the Melody Within the String Section

 

UNISON
Chapter 1 - Violins 1 + Violins 2
Chapter 2 - Violins + Violas
Chapter 3 - Violins + Cellos
Chapter 4 - Violas + Cellos
Chapter 5 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas
Chapter 6 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Cellos
Chapter 7 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas + Cellos
 
TWO-PARTS
Chapter 8 - Violins 1 - Violins 2
Chapter 9 - Violins 1 (or 2) - Violas
Chapter 10 - Violins – Cellos
Chapter 11 - Violas – Cellos
Chapter 12 - Cellos – Basses
Chapter 13 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Violas
Chapter 14 - Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + Violas
Chapter 15 - Violins 1 - Violins 2 + Violas
Chapter 16 - Violas + Cellos - Basses
Chapter 17 - Violas - Cellos + Basses
Chapter 18 - Violins - Violas + Cellos
Chapter 19 - Violins – Violins 2 + Cellos
Chapter 20 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas - Cellos
Chapter 21 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas - Cellos + Basses
Chapter 22 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 - Violas + Cellos
Chapter 23 - Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + Cellos
Chapter 24 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas + Cellos - Basses
Chapter 25 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 - Cellos
 
THREE-PARTS
Chapter 26 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 - Violas - Cellos
Chapter 27 - Violins 1 + Violas - Cellos - Basses
Chapter 28 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 + Violas - Cellos - Basses
Chapter 29 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 - Violas
Chapter 30 - Violins – Violas - Cellos
Chapter 31 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas + Cellos
Chapter 32 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 + Violas - Cellos
Chapter 33 - Violas – Cellos - Basses
Chapter 34 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Violas + Cellos - Basses
Chapter 35 - Violins 1 + ½ Violins 2 – ½ Violins 2 + ½ Violas – ½ Violas + Cellos
Chapter 36 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas + ½ Cellos
Chapter 37 - Violins 1 + Violins 2 – Cellos - Basses
 
FOUR-PARTS
Chapter 38 - Violins 1 - Violins 2 – Violas - Cellos
Chapter 39 - Violins 1 - Violins 2 + Violas – Cellos - Basses
 
FIVE-PARTS
Chapter 40 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 – Violas – Cellos - Basses
 
DIVISI IN OCTAVES
Chapter 41 - About Divisi
Chapter 42 - Violins 1 – Violins 1
Chapter 43 - Violas – Violas
Chapter 44 - Cellos – Cellos
Chapter 45 - Basses - Basses
 
DIVISI IN INTERVALS
Chapter 46 - Violins 1 – Violins 2 playing 3rds
Chapter 47 - Violins Divisi in 3rds
Chapter 48 - Violas Divisi in 3rds
Chapter 49 - Violins Divisi in 6ths
Chapter 50 - Violas Divisi in 6ths
 
SPECIAL DIVISI COMBINATIONS
Chapter 51 - Violas Divisi + Cellos Divisi in 6ths
Chapter 52 - Violins in 3rds – Violas/Cellos (3rds)
Chapter 53 - Violins 1 in 3rds – Violins 2 in 3rds
Chapter 54 - Violins 1 and Violas in Octaves with Violins 2 Playing Inner harmony part in 3rds
Chapter 55 - Violas and Cellos Doubling on 3rds
Chapter 56 - Multiple 3rds and Sixths
Chapter 57 - More Multiple 3rds and Sixths
Chapter 58 - Vlns 1 + Vlns 2 (3rds) – Violas A + Violas B (3rds)
Chapter 59 - Thirds in Three Octaves
Chapter 60 - Violins and Violas in Sixths
Chapter 61 - Vlns 1 div in 3rds – Violins 2 (top line) + Violas (bottom line)
Chapter 62 - Tenths
Chapter 63 - Violins 2 and Violas in 3rds – Cellos div
Chapter 64 - Violins 2 in 3rds – Cellos in 3rds
 
 
The 35 Works Referenced in Volume 2A (in alphabetical order)
Beethoven - Symphony #6
Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique
Bizet - Carmen Suites
Bizet - L'Arlesienne Suites
Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
Borodin - Polovetsian Dances
Borodin - Symphony #2
Debussy - Nuages
Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy - La Mer
Debussy - Fetes
Debussy - Sirenes
DeFalla - Three Cornered Hat
Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Faure - Pavanne
Enesco - Romanian Rhapsodies
Holst - The Planets
Mahler - Symphony #1
Mahler - Symphony #9
Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
Moussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Rachmaninoff - Isle of the Dead
Ravel - La Valse
Saint Saens - Carninval of the Animals
Saint- Saens - Danse Macabre
Satie - Parade
Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony For 15 Instruments
Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
Strauss - Don Juan
Strauss - Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Stravinsky - Firebird
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
Wagner - Overtures (Parsifal, Die Meistersinger, more)
Webern - Passacaglia