Welcome to the Garritan Interactive PRINCIPLES OF ORCHESTRATION by Rimsky-Korsakov

[Garritan]

Hi all,

First I would like to say please do not ever, ever remove this site from the internet. We are all so fortunate to have this at our disposition.

I am now 30 years old and I play paino and keyboards. I am touring with Cirque du soleil's Delirium as the band director and keyboardist. I grew up playing classical music in an advanced music high school in Montreal called Pierre Laporte. Unfortunately, that school will soon close because of lack of government funding.

I had the oppurtunity to play in orchestras, choirs, chamber music, and getting ear training, theory classes within my normal academic courses It is the best school. I owe a lot of my success to that school.

I gratuated from McGill University in Jazz Performance. It is my next goal to be able to right orchestrations. My biggest influence is string writing is Benjamin Wright. If you get a chance to hear his orchestrations, please let me know your thoughts. He can make any bad pop song sound good. Anyhow, off to my first lesson. I'll be back here with questions. Hopefully some of you will be kind enough to answer them.

Blessings

Ric'key Pageot

Hi Ric'key,

Welcome to the course. Thanks for the tip on Benjamin Wright and I'll check out his orchestrations. Let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy the course!

Gary Garritan

[snorlax]

hi,
i just stumbled upon this site and liked the orchestration stuff, even though i'm just an amateur to instrumental sounds. would like to find out more.
listening
modest

Modest...

Dive right in! You can pace yourself...spend much time on areas you're unfamiliar with, and go more quickly through the areas you know well.
Do all the exercises you can, and listen to the exercises others have done.
Above all, enjoy!
Jim

[moops]

Gary and everyone else who has been involved in this endeavour: having been away from the forums for a while (sadly) I've returned and found the huge wealth of educational material you guys have made available here - It's absolutely outstanding, really a truly excellent community spirited project. The quality, multimedia format and structure of the materials make it second to none. I can only say Thank You, and hope to contribute my part as best I can throughout the forum.

With best regards
Paul

[d60944]

Make sure you have Flash installed in your browser. Welcome to the course and hope you enjoy it.

Gary Garritan

Hi, new user here. I too see nothing to click on. Flash is up to date. The chapter headings are not links.

Thanks!

[Aleksandar]

Hi, new user here. I too see nothing to click on. Flash is up to date. The chapter headings are not links.

Thanks!

It is strange. I have just tested links, chapter heading(s) IS(ARE) a link to lesson(s). I use Opera and everything works fine for me.

Aleksandar

[rbassman98003]

I have installed Flash 9. It says to Click the Play button but there is no play button to click

[EmmSee]

Gary -
Wow, thank you so much for this.

I read this book about 9 years ago for the first time .. it is definitely a whole new world having all the audio samples ready to play for each written example.

THANKS AGAIN!

[mjp932003]

Thank you for your work on this great resource!

[Dunja Nussbaum]

I`m very interested.I hope I can learn a lot.

[snorlax]

Welcome to our newest users!...

Everything is self-paced here, so jump right in, see/hear the examples, see/hear what others have done, and--above all--have fun learning!!

Jim W.