Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … YP - TV - 3 What does “Orchestration” Mean [Opening greeting - to come] Today we’re going to have a look at a part of music that’s really exciting and fun -…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 2 Now everybody will admit that’s a mighty brilliant piece of orchestration. But is it only orchestration? No. It’s music, and that’s the most important thing. You see, a lot of people…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … And what’s more, it’s got to be the right orchestration for that particular piece of music, like the right kind of clothes. Bad orchestration means something like putting a dress on a…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 3 Mixing the instruments carefully, so they don’t get all muddy-sounding [& mu] and thick - and lots of other problems like that. But the biggest problem he has is to choose…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 4 [richer] too rich and not at all so delicate and afternoonish - like this. ILL. That’s just the wrong pece of clothing. Or [imagine] take the beginning of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 5 Now let’s take a simple chord - you all know what [*Needs warm-up rehearsal*] a chord is; it’s several different notes all sounding together to make harmony. [Now] Here’s the chord…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 6 Great. Now that sounded like a lot of voices singing “Glue”; but now we’re going to orchestrate the chord different ways; for instance, instead of “glue” let’s just say “oo”, very…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … Note: If we don’t compare the choral sound to the various orch. sounds as we go along, there should be a short section here showing how the chord sounds played by the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 7 go about it? Let’s see. There are two ways to go about it; one is a family way - by using only instruments that belong to the same family, like relatives…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 8 They all sit near each other, and behave like a family. [*OVER*] But there’s a group of sort of second cousins, called the French horns [they stand] who are made of…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … And they have all kinds of cousins - different kinds of clarinet, for instance: the little E♭ clarinet (ILL), & the bass clarinet (ILL). And there are saxophones, and also flutes, and…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 9 together in groups. Here’s part of a piece by the modern German composer Hindemith for five wind instruments - a great, jolly piece; and listen to how fine these five relatives…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 10 And he really invented some brand new colors in this one. Just listen: ILL Well that’s enough of the wind family for a while. Let’s have a look now at this…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 11 That really takes a master hand, to orchestrate for four stringed instruments and get all that sound! The great composers kept looking for all kinds of different string combinations, and each…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 12 [different] two groups in and out of each other, and change colors like a pet chameleon. Tallis Fantasia: (5 after E to G 𝄐) Now here’s a completely different way of…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 13 Pretty beautiful, isn’t it? But they can also make a more familiar sound (4 bars of Stars & Stripes) Thank you, boys - that’s enough. Now just relax while we visit…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 14 blend, we can see the whole story in this little nutshell. Here's a bit of a Schubert Sonata for viola and piano -- two instruments from different families; but they do…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 15 And so, little by little, we [have] come to the regular symphony orchestra we all know and love; seven players become seventeen, then seventy, and finally 107. That's what you see…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … Final Section 1 Now I've been racking my brain for days to try and decide what big piece of music I could play for you to illustrate all these points — a…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 1 A 1 Fl 2 Cl B 1 Bn 2 E♭ Cl 2 A 1 ob d'amore 2 Tpt & Fl B 1 Ten sax. 2 Sop sax 3 A 1 2…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 2 Do you know the Bolero? Almost everybody [in the w] does; We're going to play [you the Bolero] it because it's such a marvelously clear example of how this big symphony…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 3 again we hear part A twice, followed by part B twice, then part A twice again, & so on, [until the who] each time with different orchestral colors, until the whole…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 4 The two saxophones we heard before. (ILL) Bigger & bigger get the sounds. Now we're up to our fourth go-round: here comes part A in the violins -- we're getting louder…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
About this Item
Title
- Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
Names
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
Created / Published
- March 8, 1958.
Headings
- - Orchestration
- - The Orchestrator
- - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908
- - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
- - Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
- - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- - Colors in music
- - The Woodwind family
- - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- - Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
- - Stravinsky: Symphony for Wind Instruments
- - The The String family
- - Schubert: Quintet in C, Opus 163
- - Favorite melody
- - Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- - William Schuman: Symphony for Strings
- - The Brass family
- - Gabrieli: Sonata per Octi Toni
- - The Percussion family
- - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
- - Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
- - Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
- - Ravel: Bolero
- - Teachers
- - Young People's Concerts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - Location: Box/Folder 105/03.
- - From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series.
- - For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
- - Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
Medium
- 23 (numbered pages 1-15 & 1-4 + verso's of p. 2, 6 & 8, and 1) pages.; 8" x 12.5"
Call Number/Physical Location
- ML31 .B49
Source Collection
- Leonard Bernstein collection, circa 1900-1995
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2023778430
Rights Advisory
- For rights information relating to this resource, visit http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/lbcoll.access
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- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- Colors in Music
- Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
- Favorite Melody
- Gabrieli: Sonata Per Octi Toni
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
- Manuscripts
- Orchestration
- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Ravel: Bolero
- Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
- Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
- Schubert: Quintet in C, Opus 163
- Stravinsky: L'histoire Du Soldat
- Stravinsky: Symphony for Wind Instruments
- Teachers
- The Brass Family
- The Orchestrator
- The Percussion Family
- The the String Family
- The Woodwind Family
- Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- William Schuman: Symphony for Strings
- Young People's Concerts