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| Unit name |
Advanced Orchestration |
| Unit code |
MUSIM0043 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Professor. Pickard |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
none
|
| Co-requisites |
none
|
| School/department |
Department of Music |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit provides a thorough grounding in the techniques of orchestral writing. Individual instrumental capabilities will be studied, but the emphasis will be on techniques for blending instruments and developing these into more complex orchestral textures. Examples used will be drawn mainly from nineteenth and twentieth century orchestral literature.
Aims:
- Provide students with clear understanding of professional orchestral score layout
- Develop students' ability to blend and balance fairly complex instrumental colours in an orchestral context.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing this unit will be able to:
- demonstrate an advanced working knowledge of the capabilities and blending of orchestral instruments (e.g.1.1 range, 1.2 dynamic profile, 1.3 technical limitations)
- arrange passages in appropriate style, using given exemplars
- layout complex pages of score in a fully professional manner
Teaching Information
Seminars and Tutorials, supported by extensive recorded material accessible via Blackboard.
Assessment Information
Portfolio assignment 1 25%
Portfolio assignment 2 25%
Reading and References
- Adler, Samuel: The Study of Orchestration (W. W. Norton & Co.; 3rd Revised edition 2002)
- Berlioz, Hector/Strauss, Richard: Treatise on Instrumentation (Dover, 1991)
- Blatter, Alfred: Instrumentation and Orchestration (Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc; 2 edition 1997).
