Jul 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Three Part Divisi in Two Violin Sections In a situation where you want to spread out three voices over both violin sections, usually the better choice is to divide the second violins into two voices and leave the top voice to the first violins alone. Even though this...
Feb 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Epic” Low Horns Recent years have shown a tendency in film music to write more often for brass in their very low register. Especially horns are often requested to play in their lowest octave. While excellent players in great numbers (speaking of at...
Sep 28, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
String Divisi Part 2 As a follow-up on my post about string divisi from two weeks ago, here a few more things to consider: 6.) Four-part triadic homophone harmony in violins, especially in the higher register is best divided in the way that the first violins play the...
Sep 14, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
String Divisi Dividing string sections into several parts is a common technique called “divisi” and for section strings is usually the preferred way over making the players play awkward double stops. However samples make many composers believe that a divisi will...
