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- Idea Stage
- Composing and Arranging Stage
- Recording & Mastering Stage
- Final Product
Arranging
In line with the classics, I tried sticking to a rigid format of:
- Minor Motif
- Major part B
- Minor Motif with variation
- Major part C
- Minor Motif again
- Outro
The instrumentation (ie choice of instruments) were lifted from Shosta-K's waltz. Due to me being a beginner in composing orchestral classics, I opted to copy and learn. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The instruments in entirety are:
- Piccolo
- Flute
- Oboe
- Bb Clarinet
- Bassoon
- Contrabassoon
- Horn in F
- Trumpet in C
- Trombone
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Glockenspiel
- Tubular Bells
- Percussion (ie drumkit)
- Harp
- Violin section
- Viola section
- Cello section
- Contrabass section
In writing the waltz, I first started composing with the Piano, my natural instrument of choice. From there, I can test out complex chords and melody flow before expanding it into orchestral format. Drawing lessons from Shosta-K's waltz, I learned that each instrument families work together as a unit (ie four note chord distributed between the each instruments in the family) and sometimes playing off one family against another works well (like brass and woodwind). Other than that, scoring for full orchestra is very much a repetitive work - dividing the piano LH chords into individual instruments per family.
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| Piano score |
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Some difficulties I ran into while scoring it in Finale 2014 was keeping in mind the range limits of each instruments. Fortunately, the program was smart enough to shade the notehead yellow if it reaches beyond the instrument range (though not the theoretical range as the range depends on the playing level toggle - Beginner, Intermediate or Expert).
I've put up the link for the music score below for your download purposes. Enjoy!
PS It's not in concert pitch
DOWNLOAD MUSIC SCORE PDF
Stay tuned for Part III of IV for this song!
