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Orchestration priority?

Fingernail
in Advice and Techniques

Orchestration methods 1 member has voted

  1. 1. Orchestration methods

    • Straight to full orchestral score, no mucking around
      87%
      14
    • Short score with some notes on instrumentation
      6%
      1
    • I compose fully on a piano score, then orchestrate the music
      0%
      0
    • I let Finale/Sibelius do the work for me (yeah right)
      0%
      0
    • Orchestra? What is this?
      6%
      1
    • Cameron Diaz (comedy option)
      0%
      0

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Just interested as to the rest of you.

Previously, I tend to start on a blank orchestra score and fill it all in as I go, rather than compose a short score or even finish the music in another form.

I've heard some composers say they start with very clear orchestration ideas, whereas others just compose the notes and then assign timbres later.

I never posted a "Orchestrale" before because they are.. incomplete. The best way, for me, to compose them is to think about a solo instrument, then try to hamonize it with the instrumentation of the same family until I finish with them.

Then, try other instrument families and finish it with a shocking "finale".

That should do it!

I think of the orchestra as a single instrument.

writing for piano and writing for orchestra are two completely different things for me.

So I don't like starting from a piano score then moving to an orchestral score. However, I normally work from a sort of reduced score. I keep paper next to me and sketch out ideas for non-orchestrated harmony and melody, jotting down notes on where they should go in the orchestra. Then I set to work on the full orchestral score before even having finished the sketching aspect of it.

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