Writing Sheet Music For Symphonies, some questions |
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Writing Sheet Music For Symphonies, some questions |
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Jul 8 2009, 11:09 AM |
You can get some great Berklee books for scoring and writing. The beauty of these books is that they all have theory part (explanations and ranges) followed by practical application (example how they would score it provided on CD that comes with a book!) and finally ASSIGNMENTS !
So you basically get a work book where by the time you go trough each chapter you will learn how to correctly write and scores. Composing part and musicality - you need to have that in you I recommend getting THIS book for starters. |
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Jul 8 2009, 11:32 AM |
Writing such piece of music can be fun and sound great on your computer until you give the score to the real orchestra. I recomend Sibelius for this. There are many rules you need to follow. Like Pedja said, there is theory involved and some other things. For example, be careful that you don't write long notes for trumpet as the guy might die on stage Also you need to know the range of every instrument so you don't write lower or higher notes than an instrument can produce. Many of those instruments don't use treble cleff. There are several cleffs for different instruments to keep the notes on the score lines as much as possible for easier reading. The tuning of instruments can vary a lot. You have trumpet in B, in C etc... For 16 correct bars of such music you might spend a whole day but it's a great practice and learning system while working on a real project. If you manage to compose something please upload with the score. I am interested to see that
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Jul 8 2009, 01:06 PM |
You should start to mess around with VSTs ( Miroslav Philharmonic is a cool one )
and do some Midi tracks for violins, wind instruments etc. And if you're up for real scores then learn more about those instruments, ranges, techniques etc, it is fun. -------------------- Youtube
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Jul 9 2009, 04:04 AM |
Well, I think it's pretty expensive but many of the cheap budget multimedia studios that cannot afford a real orchestra are using Eastwest samples.
I liked the EWQLSO (Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra) Gold or Platinum. http://www.eastwestsamples.com/static_page...-pr-EW-177.html Project Sam released also Symphobia that's very cool http://www.projectsam.com/Products/Symphobia/ I leave you the links to hear some samples of those samples Oh!, and the choirs are the best http://www.eastwestsamples.com/details.php?cd_index=963 -------------------- |
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Nov 30 2009, 07:08 PM |
Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra is amazing, you could sit there for hours writing material,
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May 6 2012, 04:38 AM |
Some AMAZING replies so far! Just to keep it simple at first, I'd say before writing a "Symphony" try starting out with an Etude or just some small piece to get you started. Wagner and Bach wrote quite a bit in their head before they put pent to paper, and Beethoven would heard entire Symphonies in his head and have to rush to get it down on paper. But without significant theory training, that may be a bit outside your reach for now. But you can still do generally what they did
1.)Sit in a quite space and try to write/hear a piece of music just in your mind. Close your eyes and start with a melody, then add in some counterpoint, rythmic elements etc. You can write/rewrite very quickly using only your mind. Once you have something, get some software and try to get some of it down via midi. 2.)Some great suggestions for software already mentioned. Depending on your daw, you may have something you can use already. Apple Logic and Garage Band have tools built in to get you started but if you are on a PC, there are still wads of tools available and some are very reasonable as far as price. Here are two that would get you started. -Miroslav Philarmonic is great and not crazy pricey. The "Classic" Version is about 100 Euro http://www.ikmultimedia.com/philharmonik/versions/ -Native Instruments Session Strings is another great option and is also about 100 Euro http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/pro...ession-strings/ So for about 100 Euro you can have your own starter String section etc. All you need to do is pony up a bit of cash and start writing! Todd |
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