BEND with the WOODWINDS! How to write for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (SOLO + ensemble)

After Claire Wickes’ takeover, Alex Lamy picks up where she left off in her last video, diving deeper into the woodwind section of the orchestra. He offers important details to consider when composing for the flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and the bassoon. And after breezing into how to combine the woodwinds with other instruments, Alex arranges his piece “Robin on a Winter Morning” for a wind quintet—viewers of this channel might already be familiar with this melody from our Virtual Orchestration strings competition! Virtual Orchestration is a collaboration between Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) and Orchestral Tools (Berlin, Germany). ▬▬ Table of content ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - Introduction 0:30 - Principles of good writing 1:46 - Writing for flute 3:28 - Writing for oboe cor anglais 5:16 - Writing for clarinet 6:56 - Writing for bassoon 8:02 - Arranging for the woodwind section 9:40 - “Mercury” from “The Planets” by G. Holst 13:11 - Example from “Orchestration hacks” 15:19 - Woodwind quintets 16:36 - “Robin on a Winter Night” arr. for wind quintet Assets used in the video : Notation of the musical examples : 1. Daphnis et Chloé - II. Pantomime 1912, by Maurice Ravel (complete_score).pdf 2. Symphony No. 9 (Op. 95), II. Largo 1893, by Antonín Dvořák ,(BARTOS)_-_Conductor’ 3. Symphony No. 2 (Op. 27), III. Adagio 1906/1907, by Sergei Rachmaninoff 4. The Firebird Suite, Berceuse (Lullaby) 1910/1919/1945 by Igor Stravinsky 5. The Planets (Op. 32), III. Mercury 1914 - 1917 by Gustav Holst Audio Recordings : Holst, The Planets Interpretation : National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Michael Francis (conductor) License : Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Notes : Jack Singer Hall, Calgary. Recorded 2015 Aug 09 Link to recording : : Video creation credits: Script / video concept 📜 : Alex Lamy, Eduard Flemmer Music 🎶 : Alex Lamy Camera 🎥 and Editing ✂️ : Fabián Barba Hallal Motion graphics 🎨 : Michael Logar