Workshop

Welcome to the YCC 2010 season! This free workshop is your chance to learn how to use the tools of the trade from industry professionals. The workshop is available on a first-come first-serve basis and only a limited number will be allowed to attend, so register early. Attendees will learn the principles of composition, orchestration, music notation, scoring software, and MIDI technology from nationally-recognized composers. Demonstrations of each orchestral instrument by top professional musicians will be provided, along with tips for writing for those instruments. Entrants who have already written music may bring their compositions for feedback. For other entrants, bring your ideas and talent—and then learn how to compose! (Get a head start in your quest for knowledge by checking out the Tutorial section of this website.)

Registration

All workshop participants must register for the workshop. Workshop participants are not required to enter compositions in the contest and participation in the workshop is not mandatory.

Location

The workshop will be held at the UCF Center for Emerging Media, located in the Orlando Centroplex at 500 West Livingston Street in downtown Orlando, across from the Amway Arena and the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. Get driving directions here or contact the Orlando Philharmonic box office at (407) 770-0071.

Schedule

Saturday, March 13, 2010

• 9:00-9:30 Registration

• 9:30–9:45 Welcome (Steve Goldman)

• 9:45–10:45 SESSION #1: Principals of composition (Dan Crozier - Rollins College & Chris Marshall - University of Central Florida)
Thematic development, melody, harmony, and rhythm

• 10:45-11:30 SESSION #2: MIDI and recorded samples of 2009 YCC winners (Steve Goldman & John Callahan)

• 11:30–12:30 Lunch

• 12:30–2:45 SESSION #3: Orchestral instrument demonstrations (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra musicians)

Instrument ranges, transposing instruments, string bowing, and special notations

Percussion: tympani, snare, tom, bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, chimes, triangle, wood block

Strings: violin, viola, cello, bass

Woodwinds: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

Brass: horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba

• 2:45–3:00 Break

• 3:00–4:00 SESSION #4: Notation, scoring, and orchestration (Steve Goldman)

• 4:00-5:00 SESSION #5: MIDI and scoring software tools (Keith Lay - Full Sail University)

Building a MIDI studio, MIDI and notation software, computer requirements, synthesizers vs. samples, cost, where to buy. Demonstration of software and sound sample libraries

• 5:00- Individual break-out sessions with the Judges