Lecture 7. "Stretch-basic" Method (Homophonic Texture)

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Orchestral Texture Making - Promo Lecture - 1 (7:58)
Orchestral Texture Making - Promo Lecture - 2 (9:22)
Orchestral Texture Making - Promo Lecture - 3 (17:43)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 1. Woodwinds / Lectures (three-part harmony)

Lecture 1. Introduction To Chord Voicing (28:58)
Lecture 1a. - Bassoon (19:08)
Lecture 1b. - Bassoon and Contrabassoon (13:55)
Lecture 1c. - Bassoon and Bass Clarinet (22:19)
Lecture 1d. - Bassoon and Clarinet (49:50)
Lecture 1e. - Bassoon and English Horn (18:58)
Lecture 1f. - Bassoon and Oboe (24:59)
Lecture 1g. - Bassoon and Flute (47:03)
Lecture 2a. - Clarinet (15:50)
Lecture 2b. - Clarinet and Bass Clarinet (18:22)
Lecture 2c. - Clarinet and English Horn (16:12)
Lecture 2d. - Clarinet and Oboe (26:39)
Lecture 2e. - Clarinet and Flute (20:48)
Lecture 3a. - Oboe (8:45)
Lecture 3b. - Oboe and English Horn (13:03)
Lecture 3c. - Oboe and Flute (31:11)
Lecture 4a. - Flute (9:56)
Lecture 4b. - Flute and English Horn (17:26)
Lecture 4c. - Flute and Piccolo (20:22)
Lecture 5. Doubling and Tripling (19:37)
Bonus Lecture - Relationship Circle of Timbres (0:44)
PDF file of Relationship Circle of Timbres
How To Do Assignment? (5:13)
How To Send Assignment? (1:46)
Assignment no.1 (Three-part harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 1. Woodwinds / Lectures (four-part harmony)

Lecture 6. - Introduction to Four Part Harmony (24:53)
Lecture 6a. - Close Four-Part Harmony - in Three's (17:43)
Lecture 6b. - Open Four-Part Harmony (13:09)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 1. Woodwinds / Lectures (Modern Harmony)

Lecture 6c. - Four-part Modern Harmony (Seventh Chords) (39:33)
Lecture 7a. - Three-part Modern Harmony (Cluster Chords) (7:26)
Assignment no.2 (Four-part Harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 1. Woodwinds / Lectures (several-part harmony)

Lecture 8a. - Several Part Harmony (Classical Chords and Add Chords) (15:27)
Lecture 8b. - Several-Part Harmony (Clusters chords and Poly-chords) (10:45)
Assignment no.3 (Several-Part Harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 2. Brass / Lectures (3,4,5,6 and etc. part harmony)

Lecture 9. - Introduction to Brass Voicing (14:15)
Lecture 10. - French horn in F (18:29)
Lecture 10a. - 4 French Horns (15:16)
Lecture 10b. - French horn and Tuba (17:06)
Lecture 11a. - Tenor trombone and Bass trombone (20:58)
Lecture 11b. - Tenor trombone, Bass trombone and Tuba (6:55)
Lecture 12a. - Trumpet in B-flat (13:23)
Assignment no.4 (Three and four-part harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 2. Brass / Lectures (Several-part harmony)

Lecture 13a. - Several-Part Harmony (Classical Chords) (17:17)
Lecture 13b. - Several-Part Harmony (Cluster Chords) (20:42)
Assignment no.5 (Several-part harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 3. Woodwinds and Brass / Lectures (3,4,5,6,7 and etc.-part harmony)

Lecture 14a. - Horn and Bassoon (Classical and Modern Harmony) (19:05)
Lecture 14b. - Horns and Woodwinds (Classical Harmony) (11:40)
Lecture 14c. - Horns and Woodwinds (Modern Harmony) (16:42)
Lecture 15a. - Brass and Woodwinds (Classical and Modern Harmony) (33:09)
Bonus Lecture - Relationship Circle of Timbres (Brass and Woodwinds) (0:44)
Assignment no.6 (several-part harmony)

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 4. Strings / Lectures (Stops)

Lecture 16. - Introduction To Strings Voicing (17:25)
Lecture 16a. - Violin (Double Stops) (20:45)
Lecture 16b. - Violin (Triple and Quadruple Stops) (11:04)
Lecture 17a. - Viola (Double, Triple, and Quadruple Stops) (16:36)
Lecture 18a. - Violoncello (Double, Triple, and Quadruple Stops) (18:21)
Lecture 19a. - Contrabass (Double Stops) (15:55)
Assignment no.7

Part One - Chord Voicing / Chapter 5. Woodwinds & Brass & Strings / Lectures (Tutti Chords)

Lecture 20. Several-part Harmony (Tutti chords) (20:48)
Bonus Lecture - Relationship Circle of Timbres (Brass, Woodwinds, and Strings) (0:45)
Assignment no.8

Part Two - Texture Making / Chapter 1. Orchestral Devices

Lecture 1. Best registers for solo, unison, and octave doublings (chart 1.) (16:54)
Lecture 1a. Making Orchestral Devices (Monophonic Texture) (16:28)
Lecture 1b. Making Orchestral Devices (Monophonic Texture) (16:08)
Lecture 2. Best registers for unison and octave doublings (chart 2.) (13:39)

Part Two - Texture Making / Chapter 2. - Asgarzade's Methods

Lecture 4. "Spread" Method (Homophonic Texture) (9:34)
Texture no.1 - Spread Method (underlay) (18:54)
Texture no.2 - Spread Method (underlay) (13:12)
Texture no.3 - Spread Method (underlay) (16:47)
Texture no.4 - Spread Method (underlay & overlay) (15:25)
Texture no.5 - Spread Method (overlay) (13:18)
Texture no.6 - Spread Method (interlay) (11:38)
Texture no.7a, 7b. - Spread Method (underlay & interlay & overlay) (12:06)
Announcement of Workshop - Spread Method (4:10)
Lecture 5. "Horizontal Break" Method (Homophonic Texture) (4:05)
Texture no.8a, 8b - H. Break Method (underlay) (11:58)
Texture no.9 - H.Break & Spread (13:22)
Texture no.10 - H. Break Method (underlay & interlay & overlay) (7:27)
Texture no.11 - H.Break & Spread (15:37)
Texture no.12 - H.Break & Spread (9:40)
Lecture 6. "Vertical Break" Method (Homophonic Texture) (8:15)
Texture no.13 - V.Break & Spread (11:39)
Lecture 6a. - "Vertical Break" Method (10:17)
Texture no.14 - Vertical Break (underlay) (6:50)
Texture no.15 - Vertical Break (overlay) (12:01)
Lecture 7. "Stretch-basic" Method (Homophonic Texture) (6:11)
Texture no.16 - Stretch-basic & Spread (5:09)
Texture no.17 - Stretch-basic & H.Break (12:00)
Texture no.18 - Stretch-basic (chordal) (12:40)
Texture no.19 - Stretch-basic & Spread (9:10)
Lecture 8. "Stretch-static" Method (Homophonic Texture) (3:01)
Texture no.20 - Spread & Horizontal Break & Stretch-static (6:50)
Texture no.21 - Spread & Stretch-static (8:21)
Lecture 9. "Stretch-runs" Method (3:06)
Texture no.22 - Horizontal Break & Stretch-runs (7:24)
Texture no.23ab - Horizontal Break & Stretch-runs (10:27)
Lecture 10. "Extension-Chain" for the Stretch Methods (6:53)
Texture no.24 - Stretch-basic (chain) & V.Break & Spread & Stretch-runs (9:43)
Texture no.25 - Stretch-basic(chain)(chordal) & H.Break & Stretch-runs (5:11)
Lecture 11. "Extension-Flip" for the Stretch Methods (7:50)
Texture no.26 - Spread & Stretch-static(main)(flip-inversion) (10:22)
Texture no.27ab - H.Break & Spread (episodic) & Stretch-basic (chain)(chordal)(flip-inversion) (14:00)
Lecture 12. "Hybrid" Method (4:09)
Texture no.28 - Spread & Hybrid & Stretch-static (23:23)

Bonus Textures:

Texture no.31 - Horizontal Break & Stretch-basic (chordal) (7:37)

12 Assignments from Texture Making

12 Assignments (2:59)

Part Two - Texture Making / Chapter 3. Instrumentation

Timpani (10:43)
Cymbals (11:55)
Bass Drum (5:18)
Snare drum and Tenor drum (4:32)
Triangle (4:46)
Harp (7:30)
Xylophone and Marimba (8:19)
Vibraphone and Glockenspiel (8:57)
Conga and Bongo (15:04)
Drum Set (3:08)
Castanets (1:45)
Tam-tam (4:12)
Wood Blocks and Temple Blocks (1:57)

Part Three - Orchestral Effects (Film Scoring Techniques)

Lecture 1. How to write "Mysterious" music. Understanding the "Augmented Mode". (5:38)
Orchestral Effect 1. "Mysterious Ambiance" (15:16)
Lecture 2. How to write "Atonal" music. Understanding the "Chromatic Scale". (10:58)
Orchestral Effect 2. "Eerie Ambiance" (21:01)
Lecture 3. How to Write "Mischievous" Music. Understanding the "Chromatic Scale". (10:53)
Orchestral Effect 3. "Mischievous Ambiance" (16:30)
Lecture 4. How to Write "Depressive" Music. Understanding the "Diminished Scale". (10:23)
Orchestral Effect 4. "Hesitant Feelings" or "Unfortunate Love" (14:25)
Lecture 5. How to develop the melody. Understanding the "Lydian Scale" (17:36)
Orchestral Effect 5. Romantic Ambiance. Life is Wonderful. (13:10)
Lecture 6. How to Write in "Magic" Style
Lecture 7. How to Write in "Action" Style
Announcement! Invitation To Asgarzade Music School

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