The indispensable aid for tackling the ambitious and complex discipline of soundtrack composition and orchestration. A compendium of those fundamental questions that every composer should know.
Composición y orquestación para bandas sonoras [Composition and orchestration for soundtracks] by Lluís Vergés fills a gap in the existing bibliography. Based on the analysis of more than 700 musical examples, it unravels the techniques necessary for the composition and orchestration of the soundtrack. It offers multiple solutions for novice and experienced composers: from the basics of melody construction and harmonisation to the complex path of translating all the material to the symphony orchestra.
• More than 700 musical examples in score selected from over 100 film and classical repertoire works
• More than 500 online audios
• Prologue by Joan Albert Amargós
• Recomendaciones de estudio
• 6 chapters
• Conclusions
• Índice de películas y obras
• Index of composers
• 540 pages
CHAPTER I
Composition materials
From the analysis of cinematographic melodies and their harmonisation, he shows the technical elements that accompany their creation.
Go to audios Chapter I
CHAPTER II
Basic techniques
It unravels the essential harmonic and contrapuntal techniques as a preliminary step to orchestration.
Go to audios Chapter II
CHAPTER III
Orchestral textures
Methodological centre of the book, it shows the application of the above in orchestral writing, taking as a reference the orchestral blocks for the creation of textures and their combination.
Go to audios Chapter III
CHAPTER IV
Orchestration by sections
Based on the intrinsic characteristics of each orchestral section (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion and others), the most common orchestral associations in the language of the soundtrack are specified (either by historical tradition or by expressive and emotional need).
Go to audios Chapter IV
CHAPTER V
Analysis (reference works)
It relates all of the above to its origin: the reference works that are of inexcusable knowledge for the creation of soundtracks.
Go to audios Chapter V
CHAPTER VI
Music and drama
It is the culmination of this treatise. It highlights the importance of pursuing an emotional result in the creation of music for images through two most significant aspects: the harmonic and the instrumental. With regard to the latter, emphasis is placed on an orderly work routine in two orchestration phases.
Go to audios Chapter VI
COMPOSICIÓN Y ORQUESTACIÓN PARA BANDAS SONORAS
Film Scoring
Lluís Vergés
(Book in Spanish)
Code: B.4136
Price: 85 €
No. of pages: 540
ISBN: 978-84-19715-04-3
ISMN: 979-0-3503-4332-2
