Monophonic ORCHESTRATION | 8 Orchestra Textures | Focused Unisons & Octaves

In this video I get in-depth on the Monophonic Orchestral Texture. 🎻Chordal ORCHESTRATION | Moving Together in Harmony 📚 Get the book! Creative Orchestration by George Frederick McKay This texture comes from George Frederick McKay’s book Creative Orchestration. This is where the instruments of the orchestra are focused on solos, unisons, and octaves. You can get a surprising amount of contrast, richness, and even power from an arrangement this simple. In the video I go over what the texture is, use the opening from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade as an example, and then write my own orchestration of the theme from Breath of the Wild using only the Monophonic Texture. 8 Orchestral Textures Intro: Monophonic: Chordal: Polyphonic: Heterophonic: