Orchestration Tip: Touch-5 Harmonics
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Thank you! I had always problems with harmonics!
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Could you do an orchestration tip on writing for organ?
Not in this book, but I could write one in the future.
great tip!
1:03 it's a half step isn't it?
Thanks for catching that! Of course, I meant to say "half-step."
As a violist I am fine with touch 5 stopped harmonics but I do agree that it isn't something you should just write for any violist
A violist with smaller hands may not be able to reach or find it uncomfortable
I have heard of natural harmonics on string instruments too within the context of string instrument techniques, that sometimes it is better to write a natural harmonic for a purer tone than to simply write the note an octave higher(which is what the natural harmonic achieves, 1 octave, am I right). And the natural harmonic, that's where you just barely touch the string with your finger in 1 spot to raise the pitch, right? I have never bothered using harmonics, natural or otherwise. If I get into the third octave or higher on a violin, I just write a soloistic passage in that octave and then go back to equal treatment once it goes below C6. So my string quartets sometimes end up being basically a chamber violin concerto for a short period of time.
Caters Carrots Natural harmonics can occur in multiple spots, but they come out best an octave, a twelfth, and two octaves above.
The sound of harmonics is very different to a solo passage of the same pitch and high pitches can be achieved by a tutti easily in tune with a harmonic, if it is in a lower position (on the string). And of course a tutti sound with harmonics is very different from a natural solo sound. Also you can have divisi harmonics and play chords with lots of octave doublings in a string section.
Natural harmonics have an other worldly sound
Mandocello? Is that a mandolin with the range of the cello?
Yes. Google it, there are a few good mentions here and there.
Will your book be available in other languages either?
I'm sorry, but I'm a one-man operation, and I don't have the ability or the funds for translations. All I can hope is that my book is worth it to read even if English is not the reader's first language.
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Where abouts are you based mate? Which state?
Wellington, NZ