You'll also learn starting insights on orchestral balance within each section of strings, brass and winds.
SPECTROTONE CHART HOW TO
Using the Spectrotone Chart you'll learn how to create effective orchestral combinations by understanding which instruments will blend well together in which registers, or which instruments will provide a more contrasting tone-color when placed together. Below the keyboard, Hz frequencies have been added for each note so that its full potential can also be realized in recording and mixing. This organization makes the chart useful to both music and non-music readers alike. Immediately above the keyboard, each note is shown in its corresponding position on a mini-music staff. This updated and expanded 70th Anniversary Edition of Lange's Spectrotone Chart is organized across the span of a keyboard (shown at the bottom of the chart) with each key numbered with its MIDI Note Number.
SPECTROTONE CHART PDF
In Arthur Lange's own words, the Spectrotone Chart is, "a colorgraphic exposition of tone-color combinations and balance as practiced in modern orchestration." The approach and method of the Spectrotone Chart, and its two accompanying PDF training guides, are the result of many years' experience gained by Arthur Lange in film, radio, and concert performances that he tested and proved to be practical and effective. He taught at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music which later became Cal Arts.Īrthur Lange's Spectrotone Chart has daily practical use for both live and electronic scoring, and mixing, and could be described as the Rosetta Stone of orchestration.Ībout the Spectrotone Instrumental Tone-Color Chart He also helped create ASMAC, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. Throughout his career, he was music director at several studios and in 1947 organized the Santa Monica Civic Symphony which he conducted. In 1929, he became head of the music department at MGM. He was nominated four times for an Oscar. He composed music for over 120 films, and orchestrated 105 more. The Spectrotone Instrumental Tone-Color Chart was originally created by Academy Award nominee Arthur Lange, Music Director of the MGM Music Department and other studios.Īrthur Lange was a songwriter, composer, orchestrator and conductor.