{"id":4925,"date":"2010-03-17T04:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2010-03-17T04:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:40:01","slug":"holst-mercury-example-of-orchestral-sketch-and-piano-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/holst-mercury-example-of-orchestral-sketch-and-piano-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Holst Mercury &#8211; Example of Orchestral Sketch and Piano Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yIKu3LSwcE<\/p>\n<p>Gustav Holst &#8211; The Planets Op.32 Mercury, the Winged Messenger<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of the full score and following that is a two piano reduction. I have been racking my brain in several futile attempts to find the most economical and free way to do orchestral sketches on the computer &#8211; and I think the two piano reduction idea is fantastic. It seems like a painfully obvious approach to me now &#8211; but I was very frustrated with the idea of sketching with a single piano part because it&#8217;s difficult to think in tonal colors and sections with that approach. I don&#8217;t want to spend a lot of time editing &#8211; I want to input the ideas. The 2 piano approach gives me room for counterpoint between sections &#8211; and to insinuate different textures. Orchestrally, the counterpoint happens between sections and textures rather than just notes &#8211; so Viola!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4926\" title=\"Holst - Mercury Score pg1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-22-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-22-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-22.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4927\" title=\"Holst - Mercury pg2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-32-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-32-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-32.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4928\" title=\"Holst - Mercury pg3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-42-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-42-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-42.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is an example of a two piano reduction of the score. Or to reverse engineer it, a composer can write a two piano version and then orchestrate later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4929\" title=\"Holst - Mercury 2 pianos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-52-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-52-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-52.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-62.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4930\" title=\"Holst - Mercury 2 pianos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-62-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-62-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-62.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yIKu3LSwcE Gustav Holst &#8211; The Planets Op.32 Mercury, the Winged Messenger Here is an example of the full score and following that is a two piano reduction. I have been racking my brain in several futile attempts to find the most economical and free way to do orchestral sketches on the computer &#8211; and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3626],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1hr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}