Very interesting ... I was unaware of the complex relationship between
composer/arr./orchestrator. Now I'm thinking, did any of the "Great"
composers farm out their work to orchestrators, e.g., Beethoven,
Mozart, etc..?
Dean
On Dec 29, 2004, at 1:20 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Son of a gun ... I thought John Williams did all his own
orchestration. Learn something every day.
Dean
[snip]
I bet if you asked him, he would tell you he DOES do his own
orchestration -- meaning that he specifies which instruments play
which notes when. I doubt that he would allow that his simply
specifying a C major chord in the horns and having his "clerk" voice
it would indicate that he isn't the one doing the orchestrating.
The degree of orchestration and how that affects who should get the
actual credit is one that I am sure there isn't much consensus on,
with the actual composers claiming one thing and the orchestrators
claiming another.
Somewhere within the past year there was a lengthy (and at times very
argumentative) thread on arrangement vs. transcription vs.
orchestration. I could have sworn it was on this list, but it could
have been on orchestralist. At any rate it was very clear that while
each of us may have our own fairly clear-cut definitions of these
terms, very few others actually agree with us concerning all of them.
--
David H. Bailey
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