A constructive guide to identifying and dealing with common mistakes in orchestration, including unconscious borrowing, unbalanced scoring, uninteresting textures, unnecessary efforts, lack of emotional or intellectual depth, hysteria or over-intellectualism, clichéd or derivative scoring, uninformed instrumentation, and synthetic-sounding scoring. For course notes, please visit the Orchestration Online website at https://orchestrationonline.com/training/youtube-courses/.
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