Javier Torres Maldonado - links selection
Orchestration assisted by computer, musical instruments, human voice, extended techniques and orchestration.
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ASSISTED ORCHESTRATION BY COMPUTER
Sticky notes about un posible dia, by Javier Torres Maldonado
A very interesting and interactive page with audio examples, Computer Assisted Orchestration and Composition examples and algorithms, sample score, translations of texts by Ana Candida de Carvalho and Jose Manuel Recillas and many moore.
HUMAN VOICE
Extended Study of Pitch Shifted Speech by Preserving Tempo: An Experimental Study,
by S. K. Choudhury, C. P. Singh, M. K. Thakar.
Extended Vocal Technique
La voix et l'ordinateur
Types of Throat-Singing (overtone singing)
Vocal Distress on Stage: Voice and diegetic Space in contemporary Music Theatre,
by Pieter Verstraete, ASCA and Theatre Department of the University of Amsterdam.
(pdf link.)
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
An Introduction to Historical Tunings
by Kyle Gann
Classifying Musical Instruments
Module by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
An introduction to a classification system for all musical isntruments.
Instrument Encyclopedia
featuring the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, a Music Heritage Networks project.
Just Intonation Explained
by Kyle Gann
Le son instrumental: Production / Transformation
An internet site by IRCAM
Musical Instruments:
Applications of musical acoustics
Information about orchestral instruments
Musical Instruments; their differences and similarities found using physics
R. Tilghman, J. Ogulnik, N. Aglikin and K. Tamura
Making Noise: Extended Techniques after Experimentalism
by Matthew Burtner
Oddmusic
Odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources.
Orchestral instruments at the Philarmonia Orchestra SiteOrpheon Foundation Virtual Museum of Historical Musical Instruments
WIND INSTRUMENTS
Fonctionnement et rayonnement des instruments à vent What is Multiphonics?
with audio examples
WOOD WIND INSTRUMENTS
The Woodwind Fingering Guide, containing multiphonic fingerings
FLUTE
The flute history web siteRick Wilson's Historical Flutes Page
The flute source - extended techniques.
Flute Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the flute, University of New South Wales.
Graded Repertoire with Extended Techniques for solo Flute, Piccolo, Alto and Bass Flute,
by Helen Bledsoe.
The Virtual Flute
(Predict notes and multiphonics, alternate fingering, trill or microtone, search for a multiphonic fingering)
Extended Techniques for Flute: Polyphonic Techniques
John McMurtery web site.
Some of topics proposed are: Common Techniques, Polyphonic Techniques, Percussive Effects, Alternate Sonorities and Other Techniques .
Modules by Patricia Gray (they contains video, audio and text related to extended techniques for flute in contemporary music.)
OBOE
Contemporary oboe technique
by Janet Craxton
The origins of contemporary American oboe technique
by Nora Post
Multiphonics for the Oboe
by Nora Post
Historique de la Clarinette Bb Clarinet Fingering ChartClarinet Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the clarinet, University of New South Wales
Altissimo register fingerings for the bass clarinet
by Thomas Aber and Terje Lerstad
Circular Breathing
A Method by Dr. Robert S. Spring, DMA, Professor of Music,
Tonguing and articulation in the clarinet
Reproduced by permission from : - The clarinet and clarinet playing pps. 96- 105, © David Pino.
Clarinettes
Le forum Clarinette de Michel Aumont
The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century
by E. Michael Richards
SAXOPHONE
Saxophone acoustics: an introduction
University of New South Wales
Saxophone extended techniques
BASSOON
Bassoon Fingering ChartsThe Bassoon Family Fingering Companion - Terry Ewell
Multiphonic, timbral and microtonal fingerings
Heckel-System (German) Bassoon Multiphonic Fingerings by Note Name
BRASS INSTRUMENTS
Acoustics of brass instruments (lip reeds): an introduction
University of New South Wales
Mouthpieces and bells
What is a forced harmonic sequence and what effects do the mouthpiece and bell really have?
Music ala Brass
Essays on Brass Physics in the 90's by Nick Drozdoff
Tudy of the reed mechanism of brass instruments using an artificial mouth
by M. A. Neal, O. Richards, D. M. Campbell, J. Gilbert (pdf link).
Department of Physics, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
Schilke Brass Clinic
The Physics of Inner Brass and the Acoustical Effects of Various Materials and Their Treatment, by Renold O. Schilke
FRENCH HORN
The Truth About Hand Stopping
(hand stopping on horn) by Nicholas Drozdoff
TRUMPET
Lichtmann's trumpet studies Scales and technical trumpet studies
The Trumpet GearHead
Jim Donaldson's answers to a few frequently, or at least occasionally, asked questions.
TROMBONE
Variations on the Trombone
TUBA
Tuba/Sousaphone as blues instrument
by Stefan Wirz
Tubenet Sean Chisham's popular Tubenet discussion forum
The Wagner tuba
OTHER WIND INSTRUMENTS
DIDGERIDOO
Didgeridoo acoustics/ yidaki acoustics
University of New South Wales
Drumdojo.com The Percussionsts' Resource - All Percussion instruments
Percussion Information
by Marc Zoutendijk. On this website you will find information about Classical Percussion and Drums.
Percussion instruments in "The Orchestra: a users manual" web site
KEYBOARDS INSTRUMENTS
PIANO
De l'Importance des Tempéraments : L'accord des instruments à claviersHistory of the Piano Forte
Morphologie et acoustique du piano
René Caussé
Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the piano
by A. Askenfelt
The Sound collector – The Prepared Piano of John Cage
by Tim Ovens
Margaret Leng Tan prepares the piano John cage style
video
HARMONIUM
Harmonium FAQ
The Classical Harmonium
by Henry Doktorski
STRING INSTRUMENTS
String instruments: Aspects of contemporary technique
(With comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt, pdf link)
VIOLIN
Common Violin Terminology
by C.M. Sunday
Contemporary Violin Techniques: The Timbral Revolution
by Michael Vincent (pdf link)
Francesco Geminiani: The Art of Playing the Violin
by C.M. Sunday
The history of the violinViolin Acoustics
University of New South Wales
Violin Samples
University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios; anechoic recordings of violin sounds, both arco and pizzicato at various dynamics.
VIOLONCELLO
Extended Techniques for Cello
by Craig Hultgren
DOUBLE BASS
The Online Double Bass Guide
The Double Bass and Violone Internet Archive
by Jerry Fuller
Double Bass traditional playing techniques
PLUCKED INSTRUMENTS
HARP
Harp Spectrum - general information about the harp
Your harpist - Information on harps full with diagram and parts labeled
GUITAR
Guitar Acoustics
University of New South Wales
Guitare et Composition
Ou comment la guitare devient un modèle compositionnel dans une oeuvre contemporaine de musique de chambre.
Par Damiens Charron.
Microtonal Instruments
ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS
HAMMOND ORGAN
The Hammond Zone
SYNTHESIZERS
Yamaha DX-7The
Artistic Orchestration
by Alan Belkin
Principles of orchestration
by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov; Garritan Interactive
The orchestra: a user's manual
by Andrew Hugill
Spectral Analysis as a Resource for Contemporary Orchestration
(PDF link.)
Orchestration Technique. François Rose,. Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific,
