Module Assignment #2
Before class on Mar. 25th:
Go to the Comp Seminar classesv2 site, find the Resources Folder, then click on it to find the Music 413b – Spring 2015 Folder for materials to download.
1. Carefully browse the following Class Notes from the Adler and Blatter texts:
- Adler_Orchestration_ScoringStrings_ClassNotes.pdf
(pp. 10,22,26,27,28) - Adler_Orchestration_ScoringWoodwinds+Strings_ClassNotes.pdf
(pp. 2,37,38,40,42,44,46,48,50) - Adler_Orchestration_ScoringBrass+Strings_ClassNote.pdf
(pp. 27,8,9,10,12,32)
2. Review your Spectrotone Chart and manuals.
3. Review the Instrumentology pages on the VSL website.
4. Review the VSL Reference Poster in Rm. 403.
6. Ongoing VSL Concepts:
Ongoing Use Of:
- Note data
- Velocity data
- Tempo curve
More VSL Concepts:
- Vienna Ensemble
- Vienna MIR
7. Implement the Module #2 Logic Assignments:
Go to Rm. 403, log-in to the workstation (use the secret netID), then click on your individual folder for Logic Project materials to use. Save your completed work in your own Rm. 403 folder.
Module #2-A: Kardeis’s Decision Day – DUE Wednesday, 4/8!
- 1. Listen to the original Decision Day; it’s a track in your project.
- 2. Look at Alex’s tempo curve for the Decision Day project: it’s a .jpg in the folder.
- 3. Set up all the instruments in VE Pro.
- 4. Then configure MIR in VE Pro.
- 5. Edit your Decision Day project: create your own tempo curve, edit your own velocity data, and insert your key switches to change all your instruments’ articulations.
- 6. This assignment shouldn’t take you any longer than 4 hrs.
Module #2-B: Kardeis’s Hanibal’s Elephants – DUE Wednesday, 4/8!
- 1. Listen to the original Hanibal’s Elephants; it’s a track in your project.
- 2. Look at Alex’s tempo curve for the Hanibal’s Elephants project: again, it’s the .jpg in the folder.
- 3. Set up all the instruments in VE Pro.
- 4. Then configure MIR in VE Pro.
- 5. Edit your Hanibal’s Elephants project: create your own tempo curve, edit your own velocity data, insert your key switches to change your instruments’ articulations.
- 6. Plan ways in which you will fill out the accompaniment (mm. 6-9 and 14-17) with brass, woodwind, auxiliary and percussion instruments. Follow Adler’s rules for combining and orchestrating the different choirs in various combinations. Impress everyone!
- 7. This assignment shouldn’t take you any longer than 5-7 hrs.