Bizet’s Farandole (L’Arlesienne No.2): music composition techniques
The orchestral composition Farandole, a movement from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2, can teach us a lot of simple tips and tricks that we can apply to our arrangements, compositions and orchestrations. In this article, I analyse the piece and discuss its structure, its clever use of simple themes, textures and orchestration. For example, one simple but exhilarating technique this composition/arrangement uses is to counterpoint its themes at the end (see Themes/Melodic Material)
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