Garritan has started a free interactive orchestration course on the Northern Sounds forum, based on Principles of Orchestration by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. I peeked at Lesson 1, which is a review of the instruments in the standard orchestra. Very cool that there are videos of the orchestra playing (excerpts from last years’ orchestration competition winner). It’s a little odd that they replaced the audio of the real orchestra with samples, but maybe it was the easiest way to accentuate the particular section they were referring to. Nice, clear diagrams though, and the Professor Comments at the end of the lesson look interesting. I’m looking forward to delving into this.
BTW: I purchased the Garritan Personal Orchestra sample set a few months ago. I haven’t spent a lot of time with it yet, but it’s fairly good for a compact set (under 2GB). I’ll save the review for another post.
Via Harmony Central
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