2017 Orchestration Challenge: Ravel

ORCHESTRATION CHALLENGE 1 RESOURCES & GUIDELINES À la manière de Borodine score: http://imslp.org/wiki/À_la_manière_de...) Orchestration Online on Facebook:   / 278568792265515   Orchestration Online on Patreon:   / orchestrationonline   The Challenge: to orchestrate the piano piece À la manière de Borodine by Maurice Ravel The Platform: Facebook for general feedback, Patreon for video score analysis. After the deadline, professional orchestrator Thomas Goss will release a public video featuring in-depth analysis of his own version of the Ravel piece, also illustrating other noteworthy approaches by entrants. Guidelines: • arrange for orchestra of any size (must at least contain a string section and wind instruments). • Restriction: complete your first draft before you add harp. No harp concertos. • Also, go light on the tuned percussion. • Partial scores encouraged (see below for recommended lengths). • Deadline: November 7, 2017 FIRM. Facebook Participants: • Entries must be posted in PDF format on the Orchestration Online Facebook page. • Posts will receive general comments from Thomas Goss and other group members. • Entries may be any length, but fewer bars will get more focused feedback. • Participants may post entries at any time before the 7 November deadline, but Thomas’s feedback period closes after 20 November. Patreon Participants: • Sibelius orchestral template with embedded piano part for copying/pasting/rearranging. • Patreon-only video evaluations posted by mid-November according to the categories below… • Semibreve Level: evaluations offered up to bar 33 (Figure B). • Breve Level: evaluations offered up to bar 61 (Figure D). • Dotted Breve & Longa Levels: evaluations offered for the entire piece. • Submission details available in the Orchestration Online Patreon-only announcement.