Study of Orchestration Techniques

This course helps students hone the craft of instrumental score analysis and aural analysis of orchestration for the purpose of mastery of both open score reading and instrumentation methods. This course will represent various historical stylistic periods pertaining to music for orchestra. Learners will analyze instrumental music in the following ways: historical style and genre, timbre and texture, compare and contrast, score preparation for conducting. Attention will be given to contemporary instrumental music as well as arranging for a limited ensemble as these issues may present themselves in middle and high school instrumental music programs.