Hello,
In this lesson, I will be working with Foxhull to help him through a personal project of his, which basically involves writing his piece "Sound and Silence" for full concert band instead of just mallet quartet as it appears now:
Sound and Silence - Mallet Quartet
In addition, we will explore the wonders of complex percussion orchestration and ways to make it work well within the confines of a concert band setting without overpowering the rest of the instruments.
This particular piece lends itself well to a lesson like this because it plays like an exercise. The way it's structured and developed will make it ideal for learning some basics of creative orchestration in an incidental style using basic classical orchestration roots.
The first thing that I need you to do is post the details that you have about the ensemble that you'd be writing this for. We'll need to know what instruments are available, how many of each, and preferably a general idea of the performers' skill levels. We'll move on from there once that's posted.
This lesson can be open for public participation on the condition that Foxhull approves the right for other forum members to arrange his piece according to the structure of the lesson.
So Foxhull, with your post please let us know whether everyone else has permission to participate or whether you'd prefer this to remain a private lesson.
