French Horn Orchestration and Combinations
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- This video contains real recordings of French horns with winds and brass. Its not an exhaustive list of examples, but I show some interesting combinations (inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov) including examples from Ravel, Holst, Stravinsky and Gil Evans.
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0:00 Intro
0:15 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess
0:22 Holst: The Planets - Venus
0:32 Testing Rimsky-Korsakov's statements
1:41 Real instrument recordings
2:04 The horns qualities
2:37 Horns and wind combinations
4:20 Gil Evans horn and flute textures
5:09 Horn and brass combinations
6:00 Octave doublings
8:15 Multiple French horns
8:51 French horn combinations
10:35 The 'glue' the horn adds
11:07 Gil Evans & Stravinsky textures
13:00 French horns and brass
14:21 Extreme blending
Orchestration, winds, brass, Rimsky-Korsakov, Closed voicing, open voicing, jazz harmony, music theory, Miles Davis, big band, soli, jazz chords, orchestration, miles ahead
Woah, I just hit 4k subs, amazing! Especially for such niche content. I think I'll do a Q&A in celebration. If you have any arranging, music theory or Gil Evans questions. Just comment them below!
12:38 is an INCREDIBLE texture. Perfect balance
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This video is great - thank you so much!
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Nice study!! This One of my favorite instruments 😃 along with oboe. can you do an analysis of how Gil Evans utilized soprano sax?
Great suggestion!
What I don't see so often is people referring to the horn low range and is often used in classical and orchestral music.
Yes true
French horn is sooo good at being the glue in a section. But I wonder about two things, and perhaps it's just your example piece, but as a pro trombonist I have never seen you utilize the upper register of the trombone. It is not uncommon for us to be playing up to D second line Treble clef concert....and higher occasionally. Likewise Horn has a wonderful quality in it's lower octaves.... think horn as Bass trombone. I'd be curious to see what you can do with those ranges. Say maybe a Lead trombone over a wind and horn section with the horns more spread out.
Yes great ideas. In my big band voicing video I talk about how Gil likes the trombones nice and high. But this is usually for loud passages of course. I could analyse more of Gil’s work or write a shout chorus which would demonstrate this, but assembling the recordings takes time. Would you be willing to do some recording?
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Be careful with those low flutes. Unless they are mic'd you probably won't hear them very well.
Yep agreed!
Yeah! So many young composers are ruining their flute parts by putting the too low