PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRATION.VOLUME 1

The First Key: Solo Instruments& Instrumentation Notes

BY PETER LAWRENCE ALEXANDER

Professional Mentor workbook for Volume 1 and downloadable audio package from eClassical.com containing a majority of the books examples are available from www.alexanderpublishing.com/musictraining.

Professional Orchestration. Volume 1, 3rd EditionThe First Key: Solo Instruments & Instrumentation NotesCopyright 2008 by Peter Lawrence Alexander

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PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRATIONTM. VOLUME 1 PROFESSIONAL MENTORTM & AUDIO PACKAGES

The Professional MentorTMMore than a workbook. The Professional Mentor is the heart of Professional Orchestration Volume 1 because it turns Professional Orchestration into a complete home study course that you can do on your schedule at your own pace. Heres how it works. With the Professional Mentor, rather than taking a self-test to see if you know the material, you write one piece for each of the 13 solo instruments covered (the equal of roughly a semesters worth of work at college) before you do your nal project a full symphonic orchestration. With this approach, you create 13 publishable works that become the basis for your own publishing company, and, you can go to the next step, and create your own CD by doing a MIDI mock-up of your piece.

For electronic scoring, you get 13 solo compositions with MP3 and MIDI les created by composer Jay Bacal for the new Vienna Instruments sample library. Just load the MP3 and MIDI le into your sequencer. Youll see how Jay created the composition by studying velocity, expression, and mod wheel data. By the time youve gone through each instrument, including solo strings, youll know how to approach doing a MIDI mock-up.

Professional OrchestrationTM. Volume 1 Audio Package #1Learn on the run with our Professional Orchestration Volume 1 Audio Package #1 covering a majority of the books examples.

You asked for portable learning! Now its here. Thanks to eClassical.com, you can download DRM-free MP3s covering a majority of the books examples, so youre free to learn on the run. Thats because all the MP3s that weve licensed from eClassical.com are unrestricted. You can play them on your computer (Mac or PC), iPod or other MP3 player, your cell phone, or even convert them to an audio CD to listen to on your home stereo or on your cars CD player. With this portability, youre free to choose when you want to learn and where!

You get the complete movement the book example is found in. This means you hear the technique being studied within the context of the whole movement so you can judge its dramatic impact within the score. Because Professional Orchestration comes with full page/full score examples, you can boost your MIDI mock-up skills by importing the MP3 into your sequencer, locate the position, then key-in the excerpts to recreate them using your favorite sample libraries.

New! Professional OrchestrationTM. Concert PackageTo develop your familiarity with each solo instrument, the Professional Orchestration Volume 1 Concert Package gives you an average 20-minute concert with each solo instrument. Total number of MP3s - 78!

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