Bundle Summary
In Orchestrating Action 1, learn to write an effective motor (the rhythmic engine of an action texture) and add other components to it to create four broad families of orchestral action texture: Neutral Battle/Chase, Large or Powerful Enemy, Trouble Approaches, and Preparing for Battle. In Orchestrating Action 2, you’ll learn to write the motors and other components of four highly intense orchestral action textures: High Tension, Build-Up, Crisis, and “Holding One’s Breath”. Both courses include techniques from classic blockbuster films and original compositions demonstrating the techniques. Exercises are included in both courses as well.
Orchestrating Action 1 – Breakdown
Course Content
- How to Analyze Orchestral Textures
- Texture Components
- Texture Families & Individual Textures
- Additional Components
- Neutral Battle/Chase Textures
- Family Features
- Intensifying with Punctuations
- Intensifying with Held Notes
- Flourishes for Flying
- Adding a Theme or Melody
- Composition 1
- Large or Powerful Enemy
- Family Features
- Frightening Flourishes
- Adding a Theme or Melody
- Flourishes for Battle Chaos
- Intensifying with Atonal Held Notes
- Composition 2
- Trouble Approaches
- Family Features
- Intensifying with Timpani Punctuations
- Intensifying with Punctuations
- Longer Passages with Held Notes, Themes, or Melodies
- Composition 3
- Preparing for Battle
- Family Features
- Counterpoint for Complex Preparations
- Irregular Punctuations for Working Together
- Composition 4
Orchestrating Action 2 – Breakdown
Course Content
- Analyzing Orchestral Textures
- Review
- High Tension Textures
- Overview
- Family 1 – Upper Brass Motor
- Family 2 – Upper Brass Melody-as-Motor
- Family 3 – String Unison Motor
- Composition 1
- Build-Up Textures
- Overview
- Family Features
- Rising String Unison Motor
- Rising Upper String Dyads Motor
- Rising Upper String Line Motor
- Composition 2
- Crisis Textures
- Overview
- Family Features
- With Held Notes
- With Percussion Punctuations
- With Agitations and/or Harp Flourish
- Composition 3
- Holding One’s Breath Textures
- Overview
- Family Features
- Solo Static Note
- With Punctuations
- With Melody
- With Flourish/Agitation
- Composition 4
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