#SPECTROTONE CHART 4K DOWNLOAD#
The Spectrotone Chart and booklets are available as a digital download for $19.95. The Spectrotone Chart is designed for a standard 18" x 24" poster sheet for printing, but can be printed in smaller sizes such as US Letter or A4 to fit your needs.
#SPECTROTONE CHART 4K PDF#
Instruments represented include the string section with tone colors for each individual string, brass with mutes, brass without mutes, woodwinds, all the saxes including soprano sax, piano, harp, celesta bells, timpani, vibes, marimba and xylophone.Ī must have for all arrangers, composers and recording engineers, The Spectrotone Chart is available as a digital download with two detailed training guides in PDF format.
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"For arrangers and composers not trained in recording engineering, the Spectrotone Chart helps them understand EQ from an orchestration perspective," explained Peter Alexander, author of the Professional Orchestration™ series and How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite.
With the Spectrotone Chart, an engineer sees the range of the EQ'ing along with the tone colors being affected. Similar to many EQ charts, above the piano keyboard are the colorized tone colors within each instrument's range. Application to EQ'ingThe Spectrotone Chart is organized by the 88 keys of the piano with each key numbered, from the bottom A being 1 to the highest C being 88.īecause of its application to mixing and EQ, Alexander Publishing added below each piano key its Hz frequency. Combinations are presented in four categories: Perfect, Close, Complimentary, and Remote.
With the Spectrotone Chart's color-coded approach, musical combinations can be quickly worked out by instrument, by range, and by specific notes. The result is an approach that works linearly across an instrument's range, and then vertically for showing potential unison (called "layering" in synth language), octave, light harmony, and multi-voice possibilities both within a section and by combining sections.Ĭolors and adjectives Arthur Lange used to describe the tone colors are: Arthur Lange, with decades of experience conducting live and studio recording sessions for jazz and orchestral ensembles, took this approach to the next level by colorizing each instrument's tone colors across their range and provided adjectives for timbre descriptions within each tone color. They described each range break using adjectives. In the past, composer/orchestration book authors Francois Auguste Geveart, Rimsky-Korsakov and others divided each instrument's range into the low, medium, high, and very high registers. In Lange's words, the Spectrotone Chart is, "a colorgraphic exposition of tone-color combinations and balance as practiced in modern orchestration". Alexander Publishing, a leading publisher of professional music training and production tools that have been endorsed by winners of the Academy®, Grammy® and Emmy® Awards, has released The Spectrotone Chart™, created by four-time Academy Award® nominee Arthur Lange, the former head of the MGM Music Department.
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