In classical music notation you see a bunch more cres. and dim. than you see in film score notation. Film score notation is almost purely hair pin dynamic changing. Can they be used interchangeably? Sure, sure they can but I think it is best to use them more cleverly. How I use hairpins and cres. and dim. I have …
In the modern world It’s pretty rare to find the time to sit down, put on an album and listen to it in its entirety without distraction. Most listening is a track here or there, in the car, or on Alexa while making dinner or on the headphones while walking the dog. However that doesn’t mean the brain isn’t …
When I was studying at USC my venerable professor the wonderful composer/orchestrator Jack Smalley told us “if you’re scoring something uncomfortable make the orchestra uncomfortable.” He was speaking specifically about composing jumping large intervals while a series of jumps occurred in the film. Sort of like this example below (which I think is similar to the one he showed at …
