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Posted by 02 Keep up your good work, and remember that your best asset is your ear, when you're putting your music together. And even if you can't find the score, listen to the music that you like best for movies or video games. Listen carefully, and pay close attention to melody, harmony, rhythm, form, and orchestration.
on 1/21/2006, 1:25 pm, in reply to "Orchestral Music Scoring"
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It sounds like you've done pretty well without a lot of book knowledge. It seems to me that the best "literature" you can get is actual music. If you can find the scores to any film music, you can study how the orchestration works (many film composers don't actually do their own orchestrations). I read recently that the King Kong video game has a fantastic musical element, recorded by the Seattle Symphony. You might try finding that music (and renting the game to listen to it). As far as "theory" of orchestration, I'm unaware of any books other than say Kent Kennan's "The Technique of Orchestration." That book discusses a bit about what effects you get if you blend certain instruments, but largely it is a description of what the instruments can do and what they usually do, and it includes examples from the standard repertoire.
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