Theme and Variation - how to bring a simple orchestral idea to life

Orchestral Composition Bootcamp is back! Term starts 3rd June. Limited places available. Today lets explore how you arrange a simple theme several diffent ways using the full sections of the orchestra. Composer Guy Michelmore sets out to complete a short theme and variations in half an hour. So can you follow the different uses of the orchestra, the textures, the ways of presenting the theme? Check it out in this tutorial. 0:00 start 1:15 the basic theme 1:45 Adding spicato strings 2:20 adding some woodwind 3:49 The big uplifting variation 14:35 The quiet mysterious variation 26:30 the end section