The teaching premise of Professional Orchestration Volume 1: Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes is just plain common sense - learn how each major orchestral instrument sounds and how to write for it.
Now we go to the next step to help teach you orchestration on the run.
George Olvik, President of eClassical.com, has put together for all students of Professional Orchestration and the Professional Mentor PDF Workbook for Volume 1, an amazing concert library of another 10+ hours of concert listening with DRM-free MP3s, this time for solo instruments including harp and percussion. These are complete movements from concert suites. So now you can hear how composers from Baroque to the 20th Century wrote for these instruments.
Each concert for solo instrument runs approximately 20 minutes in length. Critical listening of these pieces will really help to train your ears and add greater realism to your MIDI mock-ups as you listen to the nuances of each instrument in performance.
From Bach to Xenakis
You'll hear the music of old favorites like Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Albinoni, Schumann, Brahms, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
But you'll also hear the work of newer composers like Elliot Carter, Xenakis, Carl Nielsen, John Cage, Kalevi Aho, Claude Debussy, Gordon Jacob, Marcel Grandjany, Benjamin Britten, Zoltan Kodaly, Eduard Lalo, Sir Edward Elgar, Shostakovich, Yi Chen, Hindemith, Max Reger, Glazunov, Saint-Saens, Haukur Tomasson, and others.
Because these MP3s are DRM-free, you can listen to them on any MP3 player or computer, from iPod to Zen, even XBox! If your car's multimedia system reads MP3s, you can even listen while you drive.
So whether you're stuck in traffic or sitting in Starbucks, you can learn anywhere, anytime.
The Professional Mentor Concert Audio Package includes the following pieces:
Flute
Saint-Saens: Odelette in D
Faure: Fantasie #1, Andantino
Faure: Fantasie #2, Allegro
Bach: 6 Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, No. 2 in E-flat, 1. Allegro moderato
Jolivet: Chant de Linos
Oboe
Handel: Concerto No. 3 for Oboe and Strings in G Minor, 1. Grave, 2. Allegro, 3. Sarabande - Largo, 4. Allegro
Handel: Concerto No. 1 for Oboe and Strings in B-flat, 1. Adagio, 2. Allegro, 3. Siciliana - Largo, 4. Vivace
Mozart: Adagio and Allegro in F Minor for Mechanical Organ transcribed for Oboe and Strings
Vanhal: Quartet Concertante No. 6 in C, 1. Allegro
Clarinet
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, 2. Adagio
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano, 1. Slowly and expressivley
Hindemith: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, 1. Rather fast
Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E-flat, 2. Allegro appassionato
Koechlin: Les Confidences d'un joueur de clarinette, Romance de Kasper
Koechlin: Clarinet Sonata No. 2, 1. Allegro ben moderato
Bassoon
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, 1. Allegro
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, 2. Andante ma adagio
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, 3. Rondo (Tempo di menuetto)
Britten: Serenade, Op. 31 for Tenor, Horn and Strings, 8. Epilogue
Britten: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Britten: Nocturne for Tenor, Obbilgato Instruments and Strings
Sofia Gubaidulina: Concerto for Bassoon and Strings, 1. First Movement
French Horn
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, 2. Andante
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, 2. Romance - Andante cantabile
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, 1. Allegro
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, 1. Allegro
Trumpet
Handel: Suite in D, 3. Aire
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, 3. Finale. Allegro
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D, 1. Adagio
Robert Henderson: Variation Movements for Trumpet Solo, 1. Moving in a singing style
Satie: La Statue Retrouvee
Naji Hakim: Sonata for Trumpet and Organ, 1. Allegro con spirito
Trombone
Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, 3. Allegro - Allegretto
Nino Rota: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, 1. Allegro giusto
Fredrik Hogberg: Concerto No. 1 for Trombone and Orchestra, The Return of Kit Bones, 1. Part 1
Gordon Jacob: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, 1. Andante maestoso - Allegro molto - Andante maestoso
Vagn Holmboe: Concerto No. 12 for Trombone and Orchestra, 1. Allegro moderato
Tuba
Hindemith: Sonata for Tuba and Piano, 3. Variations
Gordon Jacob: Tuba Suite, 1. Prelude
Leonard Bernstein: Waltz for Mippi III
Vagn Holmboe: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra
Violin
Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Strings in A Minor, 1. Allegro moderato
Paganini: Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, 2. Adagio
Yi Chen: Chinese Folk Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, 2. Adagio
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, 1. Allegro non troppo
Carl Nielsen: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G, 2. Andante grazioso - Minore - Majore
Viola
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor
Max Reger: Romance for Viola and Piano
Hindemith: Sonata fur Bratsche Allein, Op. 11 No. 5, 1. Lebhaft, aber nicht geeilt
Anton Rubinstein: 3 Pieces, Nocturne
Alexander Glazunov: Elegie in G Minor
Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, 2. Allegretto
Cello
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, 2. Lento - Allegro molto
Bach: Suite No. 1 for Cello in D, 1. Prelude
Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra, 1. Allegretto
Benjamin Britten: First Suite for Cello, 1. Canto primo
Edouard Lalo: Concerto in D Minor for Cello and Orchestra, 2. Intermezzo
Zoltan Kodaly: Sonatino for Cello and Piano
Bass
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Angel of Dusk, Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, 1. His First Appearance
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Angel of Dusk, Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, 3. His Last Appearance
Haukur Tomasson: Skima (A faint gleam of light), 2. Animato
Harp
Debussy: Dances for Harp and Strings, 1. Danse sacree
Debussy: Dances for Harp and Strings, 2. Danse profane
Marcel Grandjany: Air in Classic Style
Percussion
Elliot Carter: Pieces for Timpany, I. Saeta
Elliot Carter: Pieces for Timpany, VIII. March
John Cage: Second Construction for Four Players
Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 11 for Six Percussionists and Orchestra, 1. Untitled
Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades, 1: Metaux