MUS333

The course is designed to provide students with working knowledge of orchestral instruments, scoring techniques, and notational systems. By reading scores and listening to the recordings of orchestral excerpts from Haydn to Ligeti, students learn about the idiomatic writing, as well as how instruments could be treated in specific groups to expand one’s compositional palette. Each week students workshop compositional ideas and sketches with guest instrumentalists. The final project in this course is an orchestration of a piano piece given in class. Prerequisite(s): MUS 231 and 232.