Just today, I found two very good interactive, free online courses on orchestration. The first one is basically an online version of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's famous book "Principles of Orchestration", enhanced with many valuable comments by the Canadian composer Prof. Alan Belkin, who is a renowned teacher at the Music faculty of the University of Montreal. Unfortunately, Rimsky-Korsakov only uses examples from his own scores, which leads to a somewhat narrow stylistic variety.
The second course by Prof. Belkin himself is called "Common problems in Orchestration", and consists mainly of excercises that address some common problems, that one often is confronted with, when dealing with orchestration.
Both courses contain interactive scores in Flash format that one can look at and listen to, and they are integrated into a forum where one can discuss issues about orchestration with other users, including Prof. Belkin himself. As a slight drawback, it is to mention, that all music examples are synthetic, recorded with the Garritan Personal Orchestra sound library. However, taking into account the high quality of this sound library, the sound examples are still acceptable and useful.
The second course by Prof. Belkin himself is called "Common problems in Orchestration", and consists mainly of excercises that address some common problems, that one often is confronted with, when dealing with orchestration.
Both courses contain interactive scores in Flash format that one can look at and listen to, and they are integrated into a forum where one can discuss issues about orchestration with other users, including Prof. Belkin himself. As a slight drawback, it is to mention, that all music examples are synthetic, recorded with the Garritan Personal Orchestra sound library. However, taking into account the high quality of this sound library, the sound examples are still acceptable and useful.
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