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Hey, I’m kind of a book junkie when it comes to common practice stuff, so I’m gonna throw a bunch of em at ya. The common practice era of composition can be broken down into 3 major fields of study: Form/Composition, Harmony and Orchestration. Form/composition is about how music develops over time harmonically and melodically. Harmony is about how vertical sonorities interact with one another, this is one of the most fleshed out aspects of music theory. Orchestration, usually the capstone discipline, dives into how groups of instruments interact with one another on a harmonic level and a melodic one. Harmony+composition can be studied simultaneously considering there is so much overlap, orchestration usually comes after you have a middling understanding of the other two subjects.
There are a bunch of free online materials on these subjects, but here is my personal favorite:
http://openmusictheory.com/contents.html
There are also a few free books on harmony, orchestration and composition, but most of them were published a very long time ago. As a consequence, you may run into outdated or poorly explained concepts.
Harmony:
Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Orchestration:
Principles of Orchestration
Composition:
Fundamentals of music Composition
Exercises in Melody Writing
Most of the stuff with comprehensive+up to date information on these subjects is going to be something you pay for. Here are my favorite textbooks. One thing I value in a textbook is an accompanying workbook and/or some sort of exercise based learning, so I’ll be listing the workbooks (if applicable) as well.
Melody in Songwriting
Craft of Musical Composition Parts One and Two
Models For Beginners in Composition
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music
Workbook for Harm Practice
The Study of Orchestration
Workbook for The Study of Orchestration
This isn’t an exhaustive list but it’s pretty solid.
Recording orchestras is out of reach for most, so you’ll probably need some good VSTs to use and some knowledge of how to make them sound ‘real’. Building an orchestra template is key to making music quickly and efficiently. It’s a massive headache to have to wait for Kontakt to load and instrument every time you want to add a flute or violin to your score. Here are the basics of what you’ll need:
Woodwinds:
Flutes
Clarinets
Saxophones
Oboes
Bassoons
Brass:
French horns
Trumpets
Trombones
Tubas
“Low brass”
Strings:
1st Violins
2nd Violins
Violas
Cellos
Bass
First chairs of each
Others:
PIANOS
Harps
Choirs
Guitars
Vibraphones
Glockenspiels
Etc
Orchestral percussion
Concert Toms
Taikos
Snares
Concert bass drums
Here are some places to get all of that:
Audio Bro (the ARC system is awesome)
Spitfire
8Dio
Orchestral Tools (my favorite)
CineSamples
EastWest Sounds
Heres a resource to make all of that stuff sound ‘real’. It’s a lot more difficult then you may think.
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration 4e
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