During this period he studied under, among others, Alexander Winkler, Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( though when Rimsky-Korsakov died in 1908, Prokofiev noted that he had only studied orchestration with him ' after a fashion ' – that is, he was just one of many students in a heavily attended class — and regretted that he otherwise ' never had the opportunity to study with him ').

Even though he did not do band arrangements in the 1920s, for a time his ideas of arrangement were heavily influenced by those of Paul Whiteman, but when Louis Armstrong joined his orchestra in 1924 Henderson realized there could be a much richer potential for jazz band orchestration.

Gluck paid great attention to orchestration and considerably increased the role of the chorus: he also cut back heavily on exit arias.

In the west, melodic music has developed largely from folk song sources, and been heavily influenced by classical music in its development and orchestration.

Cult of Luna's sound has progressed from early material being heavily doom metal influenced to one much less aggressive and more concerned with orchestration.

He also composed one large scale instrumental work in 1815 intended as a study in late classical orchestration: Twenty-Six Variations for the Orchestra on a Theme called La Folia di Spagna.

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

The orchestration involves a small ensemble with a good deal of doubling-up on instruments ( in the original performances, for example, some 7 players covered a total of 23 instrumental parts, though modern performances typically use a few more players ).

In 2000, electronic musician William Orbit included a modern, electronic orchestration of an excerpt from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana on his album Pieces in a Modern Style.

Puccini's editor Giulio Ricordi decided on Alfano because his opera La leggenda di Sakùntala resembled Turandot in its setting and heavy orchestration.

The premiere of the Shostakovich orchestration of 1940 of Pavel Lamm's vocal score took place on 4 November 1959 at the Kirov Theatre.

Weber's orchestration has also been highly praised and emulated by later generations of composers – Berlioz referred to him several times in his Treatise on Instrumentation while Debussy remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra was obtained through the scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.

* Hector Berlioz ( 1844 ), revised in 1905 by Richard Strauss: Grand traité d ’ instrumentation et d ’ orchestration modernes ( Treatise on Instrumentation ).

In depth information on orchestration including examples and video interviews with instrumentalists of each instrument.

As Wagner had included some indication of the orchestration in the draft, he decided to move straight on to developing a full orchestral score in January 1855 without bothering to write an intermediate instrumentation draft as he had done for Das Rheingold.

Not just fellow hyper-Romantic Tchaikovsky, but also members of The Five are indebted to these techniques, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, but even Modest Mussorgsky – often portrayed as uninterested in refined orchestration – revered Berlioz and died with a copy of Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation on his bed.

In 1992, he arranged the orchestration on the R. E. M.

The first theme song used from 1966 to 1970 was an orchestration of " The Silly Song " by Jimmie Haskell ; however, the version used on the show is not the same one released on the LP ( Jimmie Haskell's French Horns, Vol.

Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.

He made a favourable impression on the composer and conductor Fromental Halévy, who gave him lessons in composition and orchestration and wrote to Isaac Offenbach in Cologne that the young man was going to be a great composer.

He brought it with him when he arrived in Venice for the rehearsals on 19 February and would continue to refine the orchestration during the rehearsal period.

However, for Night on Bald Mountain he used Mussorgsky's original orchestration instead of Leopold Stokowski's own edition that was part of the original soundtrack.

Although the orchestration was not yet complete, act 2 was presented in a private performance in 1870 just prior to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War with Saint-Saëns playing the orchestral parts, which were largely improvised, on the piano.

Among the last notable recordings of older-style performances were Beecham's final, extravagantly reorchestrated version made for RCA in 1959 ; one conducted by Karl Richter for DG in 1973, though it used authentic orchestration ; and a third based on Prout's 1902 edition of the score, with a 325-voice choir and 90-piece orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks in 1995.

In particular such a theme should be ' clearly identified so as to retain its identity if modified on subsequent appearances ' whether such modification be in terms of rhythm, harmony, orchestration or accompaniment.

He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love and provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island.

Becker suggests that Meyerbeer in all his grand operas often ' created a deliberately ' unbeautiful ' sound ..... with unusual orchestration designed to express ... content rather than produce a sensuous sound ' and opines that this explains much of the criticism he received from German writers on music.

The 1924 orchestration for Whiteman's band of 24 musicians ( plus violins ) calls for the following orchestra: woodwinds ( 3 players ): flute, oboe, clarinet in E-flat, clarinet in B-flat, alto clarinet in E-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, heckelphone, sopranino saxophone in E-flat, soprano saxophone in B-flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, tenor saxophone in B-flat, baritone saxophone in E-flat ; brass: 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 flugelhorns, euphonium, 3 trombones, tuba ; percussion: drums, timpani, trap set ; keyboards: 2 pianos, celesta, accordion ; strings: banjo, violins and string basses.

The 1926 orchestration, rarely heard today, is an adaptation of the original for a " pit " orchestra, which includes a single flute, oboe and bassoon, two horns, two trumpets and one trombone, as well as the same percussion and strings complement as the later 1942 version.

The 1942 orchestration for full symphony orchestra is scored for solo piano and the following orchestra: woodwinds: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat and A, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 alto saxophones in E-flat, tenor saxophone in B-flat ; brass: 3 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-flat, 3 trombones, tuba ; percussion: timpani, crash cymbal, snare drum, bass drum, gong, triangle, Glockenspiel and cymbals ; strings: banjo, first and second violins, violas, violoncellos and double basses.

The piece is often lauded for its orchestration, which features a large percussion section and many special techniques and articulations, such as in the fourth movement when the violinists, violists, and cellists are asked to imitate guitars ( the violin and viola parts are marked " quasi guitara ").

The change of timbres, the felicitous choice of melodic designs and figuration patterns, exactly suiting each kind of instrument, brief virtuoso cadenzas for instruments solo, the rhythm of the percussion instruments, etc., constitute here the very essence of the composition and not its garb or orchestration.

* Johnny Drum Machine – drums, percussion, orchestration, production ( 1994 – 2011 )

The orchestration contains unexpected elements such as bass clarinet cadenzas, saxophone solos, extended brass solos, and large percussion batteries.

Kalmus omitted the percussion parts from the published score so as to exactly match the orchestration of the rest of the suite, but parts are available separately, directly from the orchestrator.

The full orchestration calls for two flutes, a piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, a contrabassoon, four horns, six trumpets, three trombones, timpani, a large percussion battery ( including muskets and other artillery sound effects ), and a usual string section of violins I and II, violas, cellos, and double basses.

For the orchestration Piazzolla augmented his current working quintet: Piazzolla ( bandoneon ), Antonio Agri ( violin ), Jamie " El Russo " Gosis ( piano ), Oscar Lopez Ruiz ( guitar ) and Kicho Díaz ( double bass ); with viola, cello, flute, percussion, vibraphone and xylophone, and another guitar.

The Music Tapes is an experimental pop music project of Elephant 6 member Julian Koster, also of Neutral Milk Hotel, and the earlier Chocolate U. S. A .. Music Tapes releases are characterised by their unusual orchestration ( the singing saw and banjo are matched with sounds recorded in Julian's environment, for example the sound of a bouncing ball as percussion ), which produces an effect which is part musique concrète, part 1960s pop.

This orchestration exemplifies Stravinsky's increasing proclivity towards stripped down, clear and mechanistic sound groups in the decade after The Rite, although he would never again produce such an extreme sonic effect solely with percussion.

As a result, this middle section came to be called trio, even when no trace of such an orchestration remains.

The orchestration becomes rather violent at its climax ( which is literally marked in the score as " High point of the Allegro "); the fourth and final section, marked Adagio, is in a much calmer mood.

Igor Stravinsky praised the " incomparable instrumental thought " shown in Beethoven's orchestration of the trio section.

The orchestral arrangements feature a full brass section, a cello and the 16-piece John Alldis choir, which take most of the lead melody lines, while Pink Floyd mainly provide the backing tracks ; a reverse of the 1960s pop music practice of using orchestration as the background, and putting the rock band in front.

" The horn section usually has written parts which are prepared by an arranger using orchestration techniques to provide a harmonic and melodic accompaniment to a song or musical group.

:-- More ample use of electronic orchestration in middle section ; Lyrics express familiar theme of all mankind being equal ( if only ) at the " kiss of the scythe.

This movement is in a standard ternary form with A section in D-major, B section alluding to F minor, then a restatement of A section with different orchestration.