VISUAL ORCHESTRATION #1

SPECTROTONE COURSE

Lecture 6
Listening Guide
To illustrate the points of this lesson Iʼve selected Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Hopefully you have this in your music collection. If you don't, for your convenience I've
researched and found multiple performances on YouTube you can choose from. If you don't
have Jupiter from The Planets please look to purchase (or stream) a legal MP3 from iTunes,
Amazon or similar music retailers.

To get the MOST out of this lecture, listen to the performance before you watch Video Lecture 6.

YouTube
Gustav Holst: The Planets Op. 32 Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra (example starts at 1:13)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BrZZP0eC3o

Performed by the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (example starts at 1:05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtGpW9m0VyU

Performed by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (example starts at 1:06)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6NopU9K_8M

The Planets, Jupiter: Vienna Symphonic Library

Programming & Mix by Andrew Blaney
To hear Andrew Blaney's MIDI mockup of Jupiter using the Vienna Symphonic Library, go to this
link: https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Music/

Under the "Programming" drop-down menu, select “BLANEY, Andrew”. Then, in the search
results below, click the Play button next to “Planets - Jupiter”.

The Hans Zimmer Sound

At the time Visual Orchestration #1 was produced, there was no single library on the market that
could come close to the massive multi-layered strings used by Hans Zimmer in his film scores.
But, in 2018 Hans teamed up with Spitfire Audio to release Hans Zimmer Strings, recorded
with a whopping 344 musicians! Also available are Hans Zimmer Piano, Drums and

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Percussion. So if you want “the Hans Zimmer sound”, you can now get a lot closer to achieving
it. Head on over to Spitfire Audio at the link below to find out more.
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/artists/hans-zimmer

Obvious Adams
In Video Lecture 6, you were referred to the Obvious Adams website to access a free PDF
edition of Robert Rawls Updegrafʼs book Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful
Businessman. The free PDF book is no longer available at that site, but itʼs available to view at
the Hathi Trust Digital Library using the link below. When the webpage opens, click on the
“Full View” link. You can view the book but must be a Hathi Trust educational partner to
download it.

Updated Link from Video: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006849043

Itʼs also available in both print and Kindle editions from Amazon.

Note About Professional Orchestration, Vol. 3

In Video Lecture 6, Peter mentions having worked out detailed combinations of different
orchestral sections in Professional Orchestration, Volume 3. This title was in the early stages of
development when Peter unexpectedly passed away. Because of this, Professional
Orchestration, Volume 3 was sadly never completed or published.

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