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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Does Music Mean?
- Season 1 What is American Music?
- Season 1 What is Orchestration?
- Season 1 What Makes Music Symphonic?
- Season 1 What is Classical Music?
- Season 1 Humor in Music
- Season 1 What is a Concerto?
- Season 1 Who is Gustav Mahler?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 1
- Season 1 Unusual Instruments of Present, Past, and Future
- Season 1 The Second Hurricane
- Season 1 Overtures and Preludes
- Season 1 Aaron Copland Birthday Party
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 2
- Season 1 Folk Music in the Concert Hall
- Season 1 What is Impressionism?
- Season 1 The Road to Paris
- Season 1 Happy Birthday, Igor Stravinsky
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 3
- Season 1 The Sound of a Hall
- Season 1 What is a Melody?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 4
- Season 1 The Latin American Spirit
- Season 1 A Tribute to Teachers
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 5
- Season 1 The Genius of Paul Hindemith
- Season 1 Jazz in the Concert Hall
- Season 1 What is Sonata Form?
- Season 1 Farewell to Nationalism
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 6
- Season 1 A Tribute to Sibelius
- Season 1 Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals
- Season 1 The Sound of an Orchestra
- Season 1 A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 7
- Season 1 What is a Mode?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 8
- Season 1 Charles Ives: American Pioneer
- Season 1 Alumni Reunion
- Season 1 A Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time
- Season 1 Forever Beethoven
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 9
- Season 1 Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You?
- Season 1 Fantastic Variations (Don Quixote)
- Season 1 Bach Transmogrified
- Season 1 Berlioz Takes a Trip
- Season 1 Two Ballet Birds
- Season 1 Fidelio: A Celebration of Life
- Season 1 The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra
- Season 1 A Copland Celebration
- Season 1 Thus Spake Richard Strauss
- Season 1 Liszt and the Devil
- Season 1 Holst: The Planets
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts - Season 1 Episode 3 What is Orchestration?
0.00 48 minutes After brief introductory remarks, Bernstein conducts the finale of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol and then explains what a composer must know in order to orchestrate music successfully. He compares the flute to the trumpet, and the clarinet to the viola, with examples from Debussy and Gershwin. After asking the audience to sing two notes in a variety of ways, he contrasts the families of instruments that compose an orchestra, using excerpts from Prokofiev, Hindemith, Mozart and others to illustrate, and ends with Ravel's Bolero.
