ORCHESTRATION ANALYSIS

In this book orchestration analysis refers to the examination of how musical elements are distributed among different instruments within an orchestra, ensemble or any group of instruments. It involves analyzing how the elements of the music are positioned in relation to one another, how instruments are grouped together, and how different sections are related to each other. It helps to create an understand of how the individual instruments contribute to a given orchestration, and it provides insight into the creative decisions made by the composer and therebye enhances the appreciation of orchestration... This book describes an approach to orchestration analysis called segment analysis. Segment analysis combines analyses of texture, orchestration methods, and perception. These three topics are in many ways closely related, as an orchestration must be an orchestration of something, a texture, and a texture like a melody, is only a melody because of our perception of it as such. Anyway,..