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A Course in Band Orchestration

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As a life-long band nerd, I've always had a soft spot for the art form.  Sitting the the Bassoon section gave me ample time to think about the music around me.  What I noticed is that the art of orchestrating for band is an immesnsely complicted process and one that is virtually never taught in music schools.  Several years ago, I set out to rectify this.  I started the blog bandestration.com "The Art of Composing for Winds."  My initial idea was to create a guide to the various instruments used in the band, but as it grew, I realized the need for something much bigger.  Thus began my Course in Band Orchestration.  The end goal of my course will be to provide three volumes of text.  Volumes 1 and 2 are meant to be side-by-side texts - one concerning instrumentation and the other orchestration.  The third volume will consist of special problems in band scoring.  This fund raiser will be to fund the completion of the volume on orchestration.  It is currently half finished and freely available online at bandestration.com.  The funds raised here will go to support the completion and production of the first volume of the text.  The quicker I can raise the funding, the sooner I can get the text into the hands of waiting composers.

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Bret Newton
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Gainesville, TX

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