Leonard Bernstein – What is Orchestration?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7HCGpRZDM Leonard Bernstein. Young people’s concerts. What is Orchestration?. March 8, 1958 Bernstein discusses orchestration beginning with Rimsky-Korsakov live...
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Adam Guettel
Adam Guettel is the composer and lyricist for “The Light In The Piazza” – a musical, but really worthy of the title “opera”. I’ll tell you first why Piazza and Guettel interest me, and then following...
View ArticleLeoš Janáček – String Quartet No. 2, ‘Intimate Letters’ (1 of 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jh7aXjRj08 I did not like this piece on first listen – then I read about it’s background: the description of Janacek’s unrequited love and pining. And now the piece is...
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Orchestration Notation and Performance: Triangles, Tambourine, Concert Bass...
PDF Download: Guide to Drum and Percussion Notation PDF Download: drums-percussion-notation From: http://web.mit.edu/merolish/Public/drums.pdf Congas, woodblock, gong, and individual drum kit (toms,...
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The Nimble Oboe
I had not realized before how flexible and nimble the oboe is. Here is an excerpt of the oboe score from Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297, third movement. So this is just a note to myself to...
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Clarinet Overview
Range of the Bb Clarinet and characteristics of different registers. Low register called the Chalumeau octave. More information on Clarinet construction and use in the orchestra available at:...
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Orchestrations of Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals
Orchestrations of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Total 26 Reed One – fl/cl/a. sax. Reed Two cl/ a sax. Reed Three cl/t xas. Reed Four b b./bar sax....
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Basic Drum Notation Tips
I’ve just had the very frustrating experience of scoring the drum part for half of an entire musical theater score, and doing it wrong. Arghh! I got some bad advice so I’m posting some clarification...
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Sibelius and MainStage for Music Scoring
(Score sample of Keyboard Two part from Conrad Askland’s “Romeo and Juliet – the musical”, July 2014) As I’m working on orchestrations for my third full length musical, “Romeo and Juliet”...
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This is the original full length overture from the premiere of my theatre work “Romeo and Juliet the musical” which premiered February 2015 at the Historic Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon, WA. My...
View ArticleWhere None Would Go – Gettysburg Memorial Song
“Where None Would Go” (Gettysburg Memorial Song) is a piece I wrote to commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. This song released July 4, 2016. Words and Music by Conrad Askland....
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