In da DAW
The rows/lanes in your DAW where you can view,edit, and record your music. Also shares the name of an athletic sport
Track
These 4 families together create our modern orchestra
Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Strings
An essential foundation in music theory who's pattern is created by: w-w-h-w-w-w-h
Major Scale
These dynamic processors decrease dynamic range
Compressor & Limiter
John Williams
Mostly spoken as a 4-letter abbreviation, this full phrase is the standard that communicates musical performance as data sent to your computer
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDI
Understanding these three layers helps organize sections of your orchestration to create depth and cohesiveness
Foreground
Middleground
Background
Mode that with its raised 11th/4th quality can create a very spacey and magical sound
Lydian
4 letter acronym that stands for the 4 stages of how a sound changes over time
ADSR
Alan Silvestri uses the snare, drumkit, and empowering brass to create the heroic score for what film?
The Avengers
This is the name of the path in which your audio travels throughout your computer from input to output (speaker)
Signal Flow
This instrument is a great friend to instruments outside its own family, making it easily lendable for harmonic assistance and other musical roles. Sometimes called the "Heart of the Orchestra"
French Horn
This chord role has a tendancy to bring the listeners ears back to the home chord or I .
Example in the key of C, our Gmajor or V has this quality.
Dominant chord
Before even reaching the orchestration stage, this initial process is the simplified version of your score on one instrument
Piano Sketch
Ludwig Goransson's Can You Hear The Music from Oppenheimer is a great example of this transformative scoring concept
Hyper Orchestration
Pathway used which duplicates a selected portion of your track which is then sent to another track for further processing. Can also combine multiple audio signals together.
Audio Bus
This orchestration device seen in the woodwinds
(outside pic)
Dovetailing
This type of chord's different subscripts include a minus sign (-) or lower case letters
Minor chords
This Interval is used to create an open feeling at the start of Joe Hisaishi's One Summer's Day
(listen example)
Open 5ths
Composer who brought Alfred Hitchcock's film ___ to life through the use of a strings only score
Bernard Hermann, Psycho
Type of track that accepts and can sum up different signals but does not accept direct recording
Auxiliary Track
Because of this unique quality, instruments like 2 oboes should greatly avoid playing in unison as it risks an unpleasant result.
Unique timbre/ intonation
This interval which is used as a method of modulation either up or down its major or minor
3rd
Try and guess 2/4 of these voicings:
1. Stacked
2. Interlocked
3. Enclosed
4. Overlapped
This composer creates a magical and dark world in his score for Dealthy Hallows pt.1 and is one of Kat's favorite composers ;)
Alexandre Desplat