7. Process Variants

A Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear
Chapter 7: Process Variants (pp. 72–84)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003511946-9

Tracie Turnbull – Composer & Orchestrator, LA
Star Trek: Strange New World; Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie; Migration
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5884546/
Website: http://www.tracieturnbull.com/

Tracie is a music writer and orchestrator in the film scoring industry. A critical part of Tracie's work includes orchestral takedowns from audio/MIDI stem sessions to notated sheet music. The interview excerpt (p. 76) covers an operational perspective on the day-to-day business of orchestration in the film scoring industry.

Annotated Links

DAW to Score | Discover Dorico – A video tutorial provided by the software developer, on importing MIDI data into music notation software Dorico 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHe5IAc_PYI

MIDI Copy/Paste Between Pro Tools and Sibelius – A video tutorial provided by the software developer, on moving MIDI data between Pro Tools and Sibelius notation software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QvhZ-owPs&t=151s

MIDI Association – A global non-profit organization connecting developers of MIDI products with creative users worldwide. https://midi.org/specs

Applied Orchestration #20: orchestral reduction for piano part 1 – In this video lecture, Dr. Alan Belkin discusses the creation of an orchestral reduction for piano, through a conservatory lens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33MjoiOVhWA

Featured Music Examples

Turner, E. A. (2019). You've got it all [Song]. In Ciao bambino the musical [Manuscript].

Willis, M. M. (2016). Solitude [Song]. On See us through. https://open.spotify.com/track/5uPRCzNLUFHVPEHNmnY0gT