Orchestral Texture Making
Orchestration Course
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About Course
This online orchestration course is based on the curriculum lectures of “Orchestration” taught to Azerbaijan National Conservatory “Composition” major undergraduate students in the 2nd and 3rd semesters.
This Course include 3 parts:
Orchestral Chord Voicing / Orchestral Texture Making / Orchestral Effects
Part One - Orchestral Chord Voicing. You will learn how to share 3,4,5,6,7,8 and etc. parts classical and modern harmony between orchestra. This part include 50 video lectures.
Part Two - Orchestral Texture Making. In this part, I will show you how to easily build orchestral textures using my own methods, which I teach at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory. This part include more than 50 videos.
Part Three - Orchestral Effects Making. In this part I will show how to get different sound effects in orchestra using only orchestral instruments. Also you will learn to write in a different style of film music, such as "drama", "comedy", "horror" and so on. This part include more than 10 videos.
You will get 3-5 video lectures, pdf documents, assignments in a month.
After 2 semesters you will learn orchestration successfully.
Your Instructor
Rovshan Asgarzade is a professional composer and orchestrator.
He is also a teacher at Azerbaijan National Conservatory: Orchestration and arrangement; Contemporary music; Modern music technology.
He wrote a ceremony and film music, such as music for "Baku 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games", "Baku 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival", "The Game"- adventure film, "Mən Klounam" - drama film, "Mc Donalds" - commercial and etc.
He also wrote professional music in different genre: Symphonic poem, Symphonic overture, Symphonic suite and etc.
Curriculum of the Course
Lectures will be uploaded weekly!
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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