FSMS Orchestration

To provide students with the technical and musical means to orchestrate and instrument a work originally intended for the keyboard.

It also aims to introduce them to writing and directing arrangements (instrumental or vocal) produced for film soundtracks, songs, transcriptions, etc.

Year ¹:

• Piano reduction of symphonic works
• Introduction to conducting small instrumental ensembles
• Timbre recognition, analysis and reading of orchestral conductors (from Bach to contemporary music)

^{2nd year} :

• Writing arrangements (strings - brass - voice) in a song context
• Collective recording sessions, arrangement direction, instrumentations, student compositions (instrumental formation defined beforehand).
• Orchestration (for orchestra in pairs) based on a piano work from the classical, romantic or impressionist repertoire.

^{3rd and 4th years} :

• Tutoring for all the students' personal projects (arranging, album production, music for the screen, etc.).
• Collaboration with the film music option and film schools (FEMIS, ENSAD, LISAA, etc.)

FSMS 1-2/ FSMS 3-4

1st year :

Written (4 hours)

Piano reduction of two musical extracts (symphonic or operatic works)

Classical repertoire / Contemporary repertoire

2nd year :

Written (5 hours)

Orchestration of a piano piece