Advanced Orchestration

MUSC60042 Advanced Orchestration 30 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Joshua Brown Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0 This course unit provides a comprehensive training in the practice of orchestration and its relationship to the other parameters of musical composition. It involves close collaboration with the professional orchestras based in Manchester. Weekly seminars are supplemented by attendance at BBC Philharmonic and/or Hallé Orchestra rehearsals. Course content is tailored to complement the current concert season.  This course unit provides a comprehensive training in the practice of orchestration and its relationship to the other parameters of musical composition. It involves close collaboration with the professional orchestras based in Manchester. Weekly seminars are supplemented by attendance at BBC Philharmonic and/or Hallé Orchestra rehearsals. Course content is tailored to complement the current concert season.  <ul style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(52, 53, 54); font-size: 16px;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> To provide students with an advanced understanding of instruments and the principles underlying late 19th century to contemporary approaches to orchestration.</li></ul><ul style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(52, 53, 54); font-size: 16px;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> To acquaint students with techniques of orchestration through both theoretical study and analysis, and practical engagement through attendance at BBC Philharmonic and/or Hallé Orchestra rehearsals.</li></ul><ul style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(52, 53, 54); font-size: 16px;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> To provide an understanding as to how the practice of orchestration relates to the other parameters of musical composition.</li></ul> <p style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(52, 53, 54);">By the end of the course-unit students should have:<ul style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(52, 53, 54); font-size: 16px;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Studied a variety of 20th/21st-century musical scores.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Developed a comprehensive understanding of 20th century to contemporary practice in orchestration and its relationship to the other parameters of musical composition.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Developed skills in problem solving, analysis, aesthetics, and judgment.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Made a detailed study of the orchestration of a selected composer and put this knowledge into practice in their own orchestration of a piano piece (or work for voice or solo instrument with piano) by the same composer.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Developed acute aural awareness in the balancing and combination of instruments, in terms of timbre, dynamics and density.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Learned to make appropriate aesthetic judgments.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Developed creative decision-making.</li> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; list-style: none; background: url("../images/design/icon-purple-square.gif") 0px 10px no-repeat;"> Developed skills in orchestral layout of scores and preparation of parts, which involves professionalism, proof-reading, organizational skills and attention to detail.</li></ul> Other Commercial awareness, professionalism, independence/self-management 0 Other 100% <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:130pt" width="172"> <tbody> <tr height="120" style="height:90.0pt"> <td class="xl66" height="120" style="height:90.0pt;width:65pt" width="86"> Orchestration Project</td> <td align="right" class="xl68" style="border-left:none;width:65pt" width="86"> 100%</td> </tr> </tbody></table>    <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; display: block; overflow: auto; color: rgb(52, 53, 54); width: 661px;" width="662"> <tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"> <tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 321px;">Feedback method</td> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 340px;">Formative or Summative</td> </tr> <tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 321px;">Supervision on work in progress in one-to-one tutorials with main supervisor</td> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 340px;">formative</td> </tr> <tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 321px;">Orchestration</td> <td style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 340px;">summative</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Student would normally hold a first degree in Music N <p style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(52, 53, 54);">Adler, Samuel - The Study of Orchestration (Norton, 1989)<p style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(52, 53, 54);">Blatter, Alfred - Instrumentation and Orchestration (Schirmer, 1997)<p style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(52, 53, 54);">Piston, Walter - Orchestration (Gollancz, 1955)<p style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(52, 53, 54);">Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - Principles of Orchestration (Dover, 1964) Project supervision 2 Seminars 22 0 276