The Secrets of Orchestration Rovshan Asgarzade [TUTORiAL]

This online orchestration course is based on the curriculum lectures of “Orchestration” taught to Azerbaijan National Conservatory “Composition” major undergraduate students in the 2nd and 3rd semesters.

This Course include 3 parts: Orchestral Chord Voicing / Orchestral Texture Making / Orchestral Effects.

♦ Part One - Orchestral Chord Voicing. You will learn how to share 3,4,5,6,7,8 and etc. parts classical and modern harmony between orchestra. This part include more than 35 video lectures.

♦ Part Two - Orchestral Texture Making. In this part, i will show you how to easily build orchestral textures using my own methods, which i teach at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory. This part include more than 40 videos.

♦ Part Three - Orchestral Effects Making. In this part i will show how to get different sound effects in orchestra using only orchestral instruments. Also you will learn to write in a different style of film music, such as "drama", "comedy", "horror" and so on. This part include more than 10 videos.

Detailed structure:

Section 1_ Introduction
Section 2_ The Orchestration of the Harmony Line
Section 3_ The Orchestration of the Bass Line
Section 4_ The Orchestration of the Melody Line
Section 5_ From Piano to Orchestra
Section 6_ Texture Making - New Methods
Section 7_ Bonus Lecture.

Each one of these folders include Video + Doc and/or images.

Rovshan Asgarzade is a professional composer and orchestrator. He is also a teacher at Azerbaijan National Conservatory: Orchestration and arrangement; Contemporary music; Modern music technology.
He wrote a ceremony and film music, such as music for "Baku 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games", "Baku 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival", "The Game"- adventure film, "Mən Klounam" - drama film, "Mc Donalds" - commercial and etc...

He also wrote professional music in different genre: Symphonic poem, Symphonic overture, Symphonic suite and etc.

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