title: Can Orchestration Teaching Be Improved?
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metadata.value: Melnikova, Anna A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-02-29T19:26:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-02-29T19:26:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Melnikova, Anna. “Can Orchestration Teaching Be Improved?” Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 4 (2023): 600–620. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.401
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44986
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metadata.value: The fundamentals of mastering orchestration are a well-grounded knowledge of the instruments,
  their mechanics, techniques, and their phenomenology. To succeed in instrumentation
  and orchestration praxis, students must commonly 1) massively memorize examples of
  successful orchestration available in treatises on orchestration; 2) analyze as many as possible
  orchestral scores, and 3) orchestrate excerpts proposed by their instrumentation teachers.
  We aimed to conduct an exploratory study to detect possible voids in orchestration teaching.
  For this purpose we recruited 16 participants for this aim. Eight were Music Pedagogy students
  in their senior academic year, and the other eight were Composition undergraduates.
  The participants of the Pedagogy group completed one course in instrumentology, while the
  composers-students had a background of at least one course in instrumentation. Due to the
  differences in training, Pedagogy students instrumented an excerpt from a song by Ibert, and
  Composition students orchestrated an excerpt transcribed for piano from “Romeo and Juliet”
  (overture-fantasia) composed by Tchaikovsky. Also, we asked the participants to write down
  all their decisions and choice-making during the task to obtain more information for a deeper
  insight. As a result, we observed that the participants of both groups showed poor performance
  and low-quality products, except for those who conducted large ensembles. Both
  groups presented relevant similarities concerning orchestration-related concepts and procedures.
  Therefore, we can conclude that the general trend of the handbooks on instrumentation
  and orchestration is to work from a prescriptive model. We attribute the low-quality results
  of the composers’ group (comparable to non-composers) to the quantity of information to be
  integrated into the frame of such a model. Rimsky-Korsakov inaugurated the transition to a
  nomothetic model concerning the tembrotechnonic musical structure. But still, major understanding
  must be achieved regarding the timbre.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: general rules
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: instrumentology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: instrumentation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: orchestration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pedagogy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gestalt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: musical analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prescriptive model
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomothetic model
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: polytimbral texture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Can Orchestration Teaching Be Improved?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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