Onomatopoeic ORCHESTRATION | 8 Orchestra Textures | Orchestral Sound Effects
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- In this video we explore the Onomatopoeic Orchestral Texture.
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Onomatopoeia is when you create a word out of the sound or concept that is represents. For our purposes this means writing music in the orchestra that mimics or elicits sounds from real life. Incredibly common in film scores, it still occasionally makes an appearance in other music too.
We'll start by talking about what the texture is, take a look at an example from Beethoven's 6th Symphony, the "Pastorale", and then put the theory to use by actually applying the texture to the main theme from Breath of the Wild.
8 Orchestral Textures
Intro: • The 8 Orchestral Textu...
Monophonic: • Monophonic ORCHESTRATI...
Chordal: • Chordal ORCHESTRATION ...
Polyphonic: • Polyphonic ORCHESTRATI...
Heterophonic: • Heterophonic ORCHESTRA...
Onomatopoeic: • Onomatopoeic ORCHESTRA...
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I'm finding this one brimming with possibilities. Feels like it might be perfect to sprinkle over to some pieces to give them a certain touch of personality.
Fascinating end result! Was definitely waiting for this one to see how you took on this challenge to apply this texture to the theme!
Haha, thanks. I don't think you were the only one! The Polythematic one coming out on Monday is definitely better.
Hi Ryan. I am really enjoying your channel. But I thought I might point out that there are many, many exampes of Onomatopoeic works written by classical, romantic and the more modern composers: Hayden "The Creation", Berlioz "Symphony Fantastic", Liszt, lots and lots of Wagner, Stravinsky - Petrushka, Debussy "La Mer", Sibelius. I'm not even sure that film music uses it that much compared to the romantics as film music works with visuals and sound effects and there is less need of to describe a scene.
Those are great examples! I didn't mean to imply that "rare" meant never. I think I'd consider any time you have a "jump scare" or a rising scale when a character goes upwards or anything like that in film music to count in this texture too!
don't forget a large part of Messiaen's repertoire !! :)
There's also post romanticsm that does that a lot, for example Strauss' Alpine Symphony.
That is just amazing and fun. Thanks for doing these Ryan.
the great locomotive chase
Thanks so much for these videos Ryan, I found all of them in this series very helpful. I was curious, for this video, what sample libraries are you using for playback? This onomatopoeic example in particular sounds really great, especially the timpani and the winds. Can you share what sounds you used for this video? Appreciate it! 🤙
Nice :) I guess you know that piece already but the Alpensinfonie of Richard Strauss is also a nice example of onomatopeic music when it's taking place in the mountain by the brook and the waterfall. For birds, in my opinion, it's easy to understand why they are used so much in classical music: the wind instruments can quite effectively suggest them. Cheers ! :)
Still following the video with notes, but this time Onomatopeic texture:
- 6th Symphony Beethoven has the woodwind imitating birds.
- Normally one wouldn't adapt a melody to it instead using instruments to try and imitate a sound
- Really used in animation (mickeymousing) and film or some pieces of programtic music.
In the case of the cuckoo at least, the clarinet line in the Beethoven excerpt really does sound like the cuckoo's call. Maybe the notes help give the players some ideas in emulating the bird's call? As you said, it's definitely interesting that he bothered to write in the specific birds.
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I know, writing it in is odd right? Especially for a time when he probably wouldn't have expected many people to ever look at the score
Is that an "A.H" below the last two bars of the Violin 1 part? What does that mean?
It's been a while, but I think that might be the best I could figure out in the moment for adding Artifical Harmonics to the part in Sibelius?
Reminds me of Copeland