Preparing Scores and Parts With Thanh Tran
Preparing Scores and Parts With Thanh Tran
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$199.00 USD
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- Style: Live Demonstration
- Audience: Student to Professional
- Tutor: Thanh Tran
- Materials: PDFs of all documents + Sibelius File Score/Part Templates
- Video Length: 2 Hours 29 Minutes
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Learn how to prepare parts and tidy a score from scratch
This course picks up from the moment the orchestrator delivers their finished score file. Our tutor, Thanh Tran, almost always spends some time with the score, making sure it is visually streamlined for the sight reading by the crew in the booth, and more importantly the conductor. One of the most important difference between cinematic and classical copying is the attention paid to sight-reading visibility in cinematic copying.
Unedited live recording of the entire process
Even at the professional level there are constantly obstacles which must be overcome. In accordance with Stratisound's founding principals we present Thanh's complete "performance," not the carefully edited segment you will most often see on social media. For example, what happens when there isn't an ideal place to create a page turn? Watch Thanh identify and overcome these obstacles as he narrates his work in real time.
Featuring a real-world cue
This course uses a real world cue, which Thanh had actually prepared for a session the previous week. For the sake of honoring non-disclosure agreements the notes and names have been changed. Thanh prepares the Violin 1 & 2 Part (as it traditional to combine them into a single part) and the transposing Clarinet in Bb part. Having a streamlined approach to creating parts is critical not only to copyists, but composers as well.
Having an accurate, error-free part on the musician's stand is the last step in the long process of cinematic composition. All the work spent by the composer getting the cue approved and by the orchestrator setting it to score comes down to the quality of the part preparation. After all, this is the only instrument that communicates the music to the players.
If the Horn 2 part accidentally contains some of the Horn 1 part, the chain is broken. If the Trumpet 3 part isn't transposed, the session grinds to a complete standstill. Being confident and competent in preparing a part is an indispensable skill a composer, orchestrator, or copyist must know. There will always be a case where one of the three needs to step in and make a part(s).
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A Note From Your Tutor
Many of the things we covered in this course are identical to what I teach my students at the University of Southern California. As a copyist, it is my job to ensure that everything related to the sheet music is presented in a completely streamlined manner for sight reading. Every decision I make is related to that pretense. When the job is done correctly the copyist's presence at a session should be nearly invisible; after all, at a session, every minute spent fixing issues is a minute less of recording. This course will hopefully set you down the proper path of copying.
